Sudan Interior Mission

To my knowledge there have been no new developments with abuse investigations at sim although i continue to hear accounts from other mks about their personal experiences.

Sudan interior mission. Being above all a faith mission the first priority of sudan interior missionaries was to seek first the kingdom of god to evangelise to establish churches and then in the fullness of time to let schools develop after the establishment of the church and under the auspices of the newly established native church. The sudan interior mission sim one of the early independent faith missions began in 1893 when walter gowans 1868 94 rowland bingham 1872 1942 and thomas kent d. Sim international provides leadership and services to sim entities worldwide.

Remember that at the time of writing sudan referred to a great swathe of central africa from nigeria eastwards and not just to the modern country of that name. I did notice something new when i was perusing the sim website recently. Gordon beacham of the sudan interior mission wrote this as a text book on african missions.

Soudan interior mission sim began in 1893. Sudan interior mission that later became known as sim international is now called sim 1893 present. Canadians walter gowans roland bingham and american thomas kent had a vision to evangelize the 60 million unreached people of sub saharan africa.

The initials originally stood for soudan interior mission soudan being an older spelling of the sudan region of west africa. After various name changes and mergers the mission simply goes by sim today. New frontiers for the sudan interior mission in africa august 23 2017 by rob c.

Today our official name around the world is simply sim. Serving in mission formerly called sudan interior mission sim. An evangelical operation for a unique task in northern nigeria to 1960 mukhtar umar bunza1 dr jamilu shehu2 1professor of social history department of history usmanu danfodiyo university sokoto nigeria 2senior lecturer department of history strategic studies federal university dutsin ma katsina state nigeria.

Unable to interest established missions most of which said reaching the soudan was impossible the three set out alone. 1894 set their sights on being the first christian missionaries in the sudan region of west africa. Sudan interior mission sim.