A memorial service for lifelong overseas missionary, Dr. Donald Brownlie will be held in Knock Presbyterian Church on Friday 15 October at 7.30pm. Dr. Alastair Dunlop, minister of Knock will lead the service and tributes will be paid by Presbyterian Moderator Dr. Ken Newell, Dr. Terry McMullan (former Overseas Secretary of the Presbyterian Church), Canon Cecil Wilson (Church Missionary Society) and Dr. Brownlie's son, Timothy.
Dr. Brownlie, who had devoted his life to medical missionary work overseas, died at the Marie Curie Centre on 29 August 2004 having battled with illness for much of this year.
From 1969 to 1980 Gilnahirk born Donald Brownlie served as a medical missionary with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland working in partnership with the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian at David Gordon Memorial Hospital in Livingstonia, Northern Malawi. It was here that he met his wife Una, a nursing sister at the hospital. Together they then served with The Church Missionary Society Ireland in South Africa and Uganda before returning to Malawi in 1999. Here they served once more in Livingstonia, under the Overseas Board of the Presbyterian Church where they did much to encourage and develop the work at the David Gordon Memorial Hospital up until retirement earlier this year.
Despite battling illness Donald managed to travel to Buckingham Palace in June of this year to receive the OBE for his service in medical work in Africa.
Rev. Uel Marrs Secretary of the Overseas Board of the Presbyterian Church said, "We give thanks to God for Donald's many years of faithful service in Africa and extend our deepest sympathy to his wife, Una, their children, Susan, Timothy and Ruth, to the family circle and to Donald's many friends and colleagues."
Issued by Sarah Harding, Presbyterian Information Services. Info@PresbyterianIreland.org
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