Greg Livingstone, Founder of Frontiers, 1940-2025

With great sadness, Frontiers has announced the passing of its beloved founder, Greg Livingstone, who died peacefully at home on Saturday 19 July. He was 85 and with his wife Sally and daughter-in-law Alma. Greg had been living with prostate cancer since his diagnosis in July 2016. He is survived by Sally, their sons Evan, David, and Paul, and seven grandchildren.

Widely respected in global mission circles, Greg was known as a passionate mobiliser with a heart for the Muslim world. His journey began in 1959 while at Wheaton College, US, where a prayer meeting for Libya sparked a lifelong calling. “We formed a prayer group at Wheaton that prayed every day at noon for Muslim people who needed missionaries. And I was hooked. I knew I couldn’t do anything else.” 

In the 1960s and ‘70s, Greg mobilised workers for existing mission agencies until they could no longer keep up with the number he was sending. This led to the founding of Frontiers in 1983—an organisation dedicated solely to sending Gospel messengers to Muslim communities.

Greg’s passion and efforts to recruit and send teams to “the places where there are no pushpins in anyone’s missionary maps” was palpable right to the end of his life.  In his autobiography, You’ve Got Libya, Greg wrote: ‘[One of the] things that has kept me going all of these years … is that I keep focused on ‘that day’ – that day when I’m going to meet the Lord Jesus face to face. I want to hear Jesus say those most wonderful words: ‘You’ve run the race to win. Well done, good and faithful servant.’

As part of the 25th Anniversary of Frontiers Greg spoke to the need he saw that prompted him to start Frontiers.