Excerpt from The Duke Divinity School Review, Vol. 37: Internships; Winter, 1972 Basically, however, I chose to spend a year on the overseas mis sion internship not because it afforded me the opportunity to go some where, but because it allowed me to go to Africa in particular. I contend that considerations about the relevance to my future ministry as a pastor in Mississippi played an important role in my decision to participate in the program. Many areas of Mississippi, the con text of my own pastoral work, are more than fifty percent black. It was my desire to have an extended period of contact on a close inter personal level wit-h men and women of the Negro race. I had black friends in America before I went to Africa, but I also felt that these friendships were formed and nurtured under peculiar circumstances. That is to say, I felt that my relationships with black people were always the result of structured attempts at being friends. A certain spontaneity and genuineness were lacking. Hopefully, the experience in Rhodesia would enable me, having successfully broken through racial prejudices and cultural barriers there, to do the same in my own homeland. I was Optimistic enough, and still am, to hope that soon a minister in Mississippi will have the freedom and the convic tion to consider himself a minister to all segments of the population. I did not want my ministry to suffer from isolation, provincialism, and ignorance; I wanted some experience in interracial and cross cultural relationships which my own environment had simply not af forded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.