Missionaries

Up Culture Missionaries

Scotland has probably produced more Christian missionaries, in proportion to her population, than any other country on earth.  This page is offered as a humble tribute to some of the nation's greatest servants.

Eric Henry Liddell (1902-1943)
Born Tientsin, North China
Missionary to China

The Flying Scotsman
"When I run, I feel His pleasure."

David Livingstone (1813-1873)
Born Blantyre, Scotland
Missionary to Africa

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843)
Born Edinburgh, Scotland
Missionary to
Palestine
Mary Slessor (1848-1915)
Born Aberdeen, Scotland
Missionary to Nigeria

Mother of All the Peoples

Robert Moffat (1795-1883)
Born Ormiston, Scotland
Missionary to South Africa
John Gibson Paton (1824-1907)
Born Dumfries, Scotland
Missionary to Vanuata, South Pacific

The Apostle of Christ to the cannibals
of the New Hebrides

William C. Burns
Born Scotland
Missionary to
Manchuria

Grandfather of all Bible Presbytarians

John Knox (1505-1572)
Born East Lothian, Scotland
Protestant Reformation Leade
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Co-author of the Scottish Confession of Faith