Overview
My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa!" declared young Alexander Mackay in a letter to the Church Missionary Society of London. Stirred by the legacy of missionary David Livingstone, Africa's courageous Pathfinder, Mackay determined in 1875 to carry the gospel to the land of Uganda on the shores of Lake Victoria. The Scottish engineer soon discovered a ministry among the African people that would earn him the title, "Uganda's White Man of Work." Always teaching, laboring, and by his words and deeds sharing the love of Christ, Mackay proved to me, in the words of American journalist Henry Stanley, "the best missionary since Livingstone."