Traveling "The Missionary Road"

Did you ever wonder what it was like to be a missionary 150 years ago? On our recent trip around Southern Africa, we traveled to the homesteads of the first missionaries to evangelize the interior of “The Dark Continent.”

In 1820, Robert and Mary Moffat established a base south of the Kalahari Desert, now a town known as Kuruman. After nine years, Robert baptized his first eight converts, whereupon he began building a church building to seat 800. It wasn’t long before the building was full and the ministry thriving. He was joined by various missionaries over his 50 years of ministry, including David Livingstone, who married his oldest daughter Mary.

From the Kuruman base, Livingstone and other missionaries began to spread the good news of the gospel to Africans. As the sign on the property indicates, from this place began “The Missionary Road to the Interior.” If you’d like to see more photos of the Moffat Mission, please click here.