The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed in outlook, with Congregational missions in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas, although there were also Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and various other Protestants involved. It now forms part of the Council for World Mission.

Robert Moffat was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa ftom 1817–1870. Moffat began his missionary career in South Africa at the age of twenty-one. He was married to Mary Moffat, the parents of Mary Moffat Livingstone and the father-in-law of David Livingstone who often worked with Moffat and his missionary efforts at various stations in southern Africa While doing missionary work at the mission at Kuruman Moffat was the first to translate and have printed the Bible into the Sechuana language While in Africa Moffat devoted much of his time preaching the gospel and discussing the Bible and also taught many of the natives how to read and write. Moffat's missionary career in Africa spanned a total of fifty-four years.