Patricia Bailey-Jones is on the leading edge of a new trend as more African-Americans head to the foreign mission field. Charisma caught up with her in Angola.
Patricia Bailey-Jones had led mission trips to nearly 100 nations the year she read an article about Angola—a country in southern Africa that just ended a bloody, 27-year civil war in 2002. "That article gripped me," she says. "In it a father took his [5-year-old] daughter to a hotel and offered her room to room for sex to foreign businessmen. The spirit of God stood up on my inside, and I was compelled to do something."