This book is about unknown Black American Christian Missionaries, who served the Lord Jesus Christ in world missions in the 20th century. I, Dr. Joseph C. Jeter , have not listed all of them, many have been left out of this book not because they are less, but my time to do research is short. The missionaries that are listed, I may have had personal contact with. If any person is offended because they are not listed please forgive me.

In Hebrews Chapter 11, there is a roll call of the Heroes of the Faith, and their deeds done in the name of our Lord Jesus. All these are known because they are written in scripture. These people did many of the same deeds; many of them suffered by faith, labored by faith, endured afflictions by faith, etc. and are well known by the Godhead in heaven but not by men. They are the unknown soldiers of God in the 19th and 20th centuries. Black, Colored, Negro, African American, and whatever else you will call them, missionaries sent by the Lord, used by the Lord, they finished their work, but unlike the people in Hebrews Chapter 11 they are unknown, rejected almost by the church. They received the promise of God and have finished their course or are in the mist of it. So Send I you, by E. Margaret Clarkson, 1915; and the music by John W. Peterson, 1921:

So send I you to labor unrewarded,
To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown,
To bear rebuke to suffer scorn and scoffing,
So send I you to toil for Me alone.

So send I you to bind the bruise and broken,
Oer wondering souls to work, to weep, to wake.
To bear the burdens of a world aweary,
So send I you to suffer for My sake.

So send I you to loneliness and longing
With heart ahungring for the loved and known,
Forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one,
So send I you to know My love alone.

So send I you to leave your lifes ambition,
To die to dear desire, self-will resign,
To labor long and love where me revile you.
So send I you to lose your life in Mine.

So send I you to hearts made hard by hatred,
To eyes made blind because they will not see,
To spend tho it be blood to spend and spare not,
So send I you to taste of Calvary.

As the Father has sent me, So send I you.