 A Medical Doctor

 A Missionary of the
London Missionary Society
 A Preacher
 Africa Explorer
 DAVID LIVINGSTONE
Born: March 21, 1813
at Blantyre mill town
in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Father: Protestant School

Teacher (Influences David
for aspiring as a missionary
someday)

At the age of 10, he had to work for long hours and

find time to study afterwards.
In 1836, he entered Anderson
College in Glasgow to study
theology and Medicine.

At the age of 27, he was sent by

London Missionary Society to
South Africa as both a doctor
and ordained minister. He begun his life by walking back
in forth in Africa’s vast interior. At Kuruman, he served
in the station of the noted missionary Robert Moffat. He
had narrowly survived in an attack of the lion which
causes a tooth scar on his shoulder.
He married Moffat’s
daughter named Mary and
had a six children with her .
Livingstone soon found that God is leading him to a
different direction.

He had failed to set up missionary stations and frustrated

of few converts, and concluded God’s purpose was to use
his talents to map and explore the vast African heartland.
To open up GOD’S HIGHWAY which would bring
CHRISTIANITY and put an end to Arab slave trade.

In 1852, after sending his wife and children to England,

Livingstone started to explore and was the first European
to go across Africa from West to East.
In 1857, he withdraw from London Missionary Society
due to honesty differences over whether a missionary
should be staying one place or should be allowed to travel
and explore.

• Published “Missionary Travels and Researches in South

Africa”.

He launched an expedition in mission above the Victoria

Falls, where his wife and others died due to the steamboat
leaked. He tried to change his plan but the England did
not permitted him.
At age 52, he sailed back to
Africa which was to be his
last journey.

Started with 600 porters but

quickly deserted him. He
became unsuccessful for 7 years until in 1871, Livingstone
had reached Lualaba River (which he thought was the Nile
River. There he witnessed the Arab slave traders massacre
300-400 Africans.

• Sick at heart and in body, Livingstone retraced his step

back to Ujiji.
Henry Morton Stanley

The world had not heard

Livingstone for years, that even the
New York Herald, Henry Stanley
was sent to find him and his story.
He refuses to come with Stanley
saying, his work was not yet done
here.
In 1872, Stanley sent him 50 porters from the coast.
During this time, Livingstone attempted to continue his
expedition about the Nile River but he was to weak to
continue this mission.
 Death of David Livingstone

He was found dead kneeling in

prayer by his bed. His body
sent to England and was easily
identified due to his scar on his
shoulder. However local
African attendants cut out his
heart saying “You can have his
body but his heart belongs in
Africa!”

• His heart was buried on the foot of a giant tree.

 The End of Slave Trade
He had influences famous
Gospel pioneers which are all
touched and led to follow his
trails. But moreover, the
world was indebted to
Livingstone for his relentless
attacked on slavery.

He had seen the strangest disease of the country was

broken and heartedness, and it attacks free men who have
been captured and made slave.
Livingstone’s personal and public letters, together with
other missionaries, ignited a public outcry to Parliament
to stop slave trade. He sent a letter to be published
about the massacres of Africans by Arab slave traders.
Which he regarded as a grater matter than the discovery
of the Nile sources together if this writings would stop
the terrible Ujijian slave trade.

In 1871, Livingstone together with other anti-slavery,

protested to the House of Common for actions. A
month after Livingstone death, the England threatened
a naval blockade which forced the Sultan to CLOSE
ITS MARKET SLAVE FOREVER.