David Livingstone | Life of a Christian Missionary | Missionary Stories | Life of a Medical Doctor

Hello everyone. I'm planning to look into the life of a few famous missionaries and how they were dedicated and useful for his ministry. Let's begin with my favorite of them all. David Livingston. David Livingston was born in Scotland in 1813. He was a medical missionary. He wanted to go to China at first but the door to China was shut by the opium war. Within six months he met Robert Muffet who was a missionary in Africa and Muffet led Livingston to go to Africa as a medical missionary. He faced many hardships. Once he was attacked by a lion resulting injury to his left arm. Mary Muffet, Robert Muffet's daughter nursed him at the time and eventually he married her. His life was that of an explorer. He would travel from place to place and share the gospel. Mary accompanied him on many of his journeys until her health and when one of the children died it forced him to send her and their four children back to Britain. The next time he saw his wife was five years later. The only way they could communicate those days were by sending letters and it would take months to get them and when she saw him five years later she could not recognize him. He was completely blinded in one eye from a tree branch. His face burned under the African sun. His face scarred and one of his shoulders torn by a lion attack and a limping leg. He was completely disfigured. In little over a year he left to Africa again by himself and finally after a few years Mary decides to join him and sadly she contracted malaria and she died a few days later. The very day that he buried his wife and he went home he realized that somebody had stolen his medication that he so needed and while he was praying he had a visitor and that was Henry Stanley, a press reporter who says this famous lines to him. Dr Livingston, I presume, he says I'm here to write a story about your life and I want you to know two things about me. One, I'm the biggest atheist in the world. Two, somebody has given this medication for you and there it was one of the biggest atheists in the world bringing the medication for David which is the Lord's doing. Mr Henry was traveling with Livingston and four months later the biggest atheist knelt down and gave his life to Jesus. The power of that Christ's life was awesome and I had to get it. David's health had been poor for many years and one day after he preached in a village he was gathered to his home and he knelt down to pray and few hours later they realized that he had died kneeling at the bedside with his head buried in his hands upon the pillow. He lived a life of prayer and gave his life to be used by the Lord and led many to Christ. He spent almost 30 years of his life as a missionary. Here are some of the popular books written by David Livingston for further reading. David Livingston lived his life as a vessel honorable to God for his ministry. I hope his life has touched and inspired you as much as it did to me. I'll be back next month with a new missionary story. Until then, stay blessed.