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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE LANDS OF MY TOIL: PROF. M. M. NINAN Sudan Interior Church The Sudan Interior Church grew out of the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) from the USA. It was started in 1937 by SIM missionaries who had been expelled from Ethiopia by the Italians. Hoping to keep in touch with the small community they had built in Ethiopia, they began to work in the Sudan along the border in the Blue Nile province, and eventually in the northern part of the Upper Nile province. It became autonomous in 1963. Congregations are in Khartoum, Upper Nile and Blue Nile Province. It has 25,000 members and 120 parishes. It is currently a member of the Baptist World Alliance. I was in fact part of the advisory committee as the Church was becoming autonomous. The essential problems were the conflict between the cultural practices of the communities as against the moral standards of the bible. Notice the dress of the pastor which is reminiscent of the robe of the bishops. This is a cultural practice. The chiefs of tribes wear distinct red themed robes and it is simply symbolic of authority. This may be the basis of the dress of the bishops initially within the early church. 98
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE LANDS OF MY TOIL: PROF. M. M. NINAN AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION Rev John Kelly Giffen DD(1853-1932) Rev. J. Kelly Giffen was an American Presbyterian missionary in Egypt when the news came that British and Egyptian troops had entered Omdurman. He was eager for the American mission to begin work in Sudan and so in 1900 he visited Omdurman with a fellow missionary, Dr. Andrew Watson (The Practice of Mission in Egypt: A Historical Study of the Integration ...By Tharwat Wahba) and stayed with Gwynne and Harpur. Like Gwynne, Giffen’s vision at that time was for evangelism amongst the Muslim population of North Sudan. Unlike the Catholics and the CMS, the Presbyterians already had a large church in Egypt. The Evangelical Church in Egypt was founded by American Presbyterians and consisted mainly of converts from the Coptic Church. Consequently following the report that Giffen brought back to Egypt the mission set aside Giffen and his wife and also Dr. H. T. McLaughlin and his wife for work in Sudan and the Evangelical Church chose an Egyptian pastor, Rev. Gebra Hanna to go to Sudan to work amongst the Coptic and Evangelical Christians, and to begin a witness amongst Muslims. 99
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