TODAY'S LEADERS

		Wilondia and Shirley K. Wright Masongezi Serving with the Baptist General Conference in the Ivory Coast as Church Planters among the Hausa people.

While studying for her doctorate Shirley Wright came into contact with Campus Crusade. Through this contact she gained a vision for missions and began serving with Campus Crusade in Nigeria in 1983 as a teacher and campus ministry leader. When denied a visa she began working with the Campus Crusade ministry, Here's Life Black America. With a passion for the Hausa people burning in her heart, Shirley began working with the Hausa people in Cameroon in 1990 through the Baptist General Conference. It was here that she met her husband Wilondja. They are now preparing to serve the unreached Hausa people in the Ivory Coast starting in June 2000.

She says the African American today "needs a greater vision of world evangelization by the local pastors. This vision must be imparted to our people. African- American pastors need to be exposed to the needs worldwide. The African-American missionary can be a resource for the people in our churches. These missionaries are not a threat to the pastors nor are they competing for dollars in the church. The African American missionary only wants to do what Christ has told us to dotake the Gospel out into the entire world."