Description: Support raising is difficult for all missionaries but minority missionaries have their own challenges. Byron Johnson from Vision 9:38 shares about these challenges, how to overcome them, and what churches and organizations can do to support minority missionaries.

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https://www.vision938.org/

https://www.naamcevents.org/

Bio:

Byron Johnson's roles included campus staff, campus director, area director, and regional director. He is the Founder and Executive Director of VISION 9:38 (2012). For 20 years (1992-2012), He served as a missionary with CO (Campus Outreach). He served in various capacities with CO. 

He continues to disciple and mentor young African-American male college students at Morehouse College. His hope and prayer is that God would raise up other African-American missionaries to labor in His harvest.

Byron is married to Kim and they have five children (Kelsey, James Byron II, Kaitlyn, Jordan, and Jonathan). Byron met Kim on a summer mission project hosted by CO while the two of them were in college. They were married in 1993 and currently reside in Atlanta, GA.