Meet Our Founder
Denise Lashawn Henderson is a 27 year old proud African American Woman. She was born in Chicago IL, to Darryl and Yolanda Henderson. Denise was raised with her brother Darryl Jr in a small black baptist church on the south side until they moved to Texas in 2004. After High School Denise graduated from Prairie View A&M University with her B.A in Communications and Marketing.
Upon graduation Denise began traveling the world as a participant and led teams on missions trips. During her travels, she was struck by the lack of representation of black/brown people in the missions community. Denise started Melanating Missions to encourage, empower, and equip African American missionaries and people of color to fulfill the Great Commission’s call to “Go to All Nations”.