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  The Apostolic Evangelist Revised Edition. “Preface.” “The reason for doing a second edition is to give more attention to who, what and why an evangelist is, to and from the local church. An extra chapter is added on “Developing as an Evangelist”. There is more  instruction on the ministry and message of an evangelist…

Mary Slessor. “The White Queen of Calabar.” One day in 1898 onlookers at Waverley Station in Edinburgh Scotland, were astonished to see a woman of slight build, with a face like yellow parchment in hue and with short straight hair, get off the train accompanied by four wide-eyed African girls. Mary Slessor had been the…

The picture displays a Scottish 10 Pounds Sterling note: the areas Mary ministered int primarily in Nigeria. Mary Slessor, inspired by Livingstone and the great wave of missionary enthusiasm volunteered her services to the Foreign Mission Board. She sailed from Liverpool to Calabar Nigeria in August 1876. When she arrived she realised the huge challenging…

One day she received a secret message that two tribes far away were about to go war. A man in one village had wounded a chief in another. Mary said, “I must go and stop it else much blood will be spilt”. Her friends pointed out that she had been ill and could scarcely walk.…