I mean, they’re literally in the Bible. Acts 8— the Queen of Ethiopia’s treasurer is heading back home after worshipping in Jerusalem, and Phillip tells him about Jesus, having learned about him from the guys who walked around with Jesus for three years. Then Philip miraculously teleports elsewhere, and the eunuch goes back to Ethiopia with an impressive story.

Europeans didn’t get the Gospel until Lydia, in Acts 16—by some reckonings, eighteen years later. Maybe even longer.

I swear, if Christians actually read the Bible instead of trying to thump it, we’d get a lot more done.

Explanation: In the 19th century AD, Europeans flooded inland into the continent of Africa, formerly largely closed off to them by difficulty of travel and supply, seeking to colonize and, secondarily, to convert to Christianity whomever they could find. The African country of Ethiopia, however, which retained its independence in the face of 19th century European aggression, had been Christian for longer than most of Europe had been - Ethiopia had adopted Christianity in the 4th century AD!