Sudan Interior Mission History

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.

Sudan interior mission history. The folders below correspond to these missions. It was established in 1893 by its three founders walter gowans and rowland bingham of canada and thomas kent of the united states. The sudan interior mission commonly known by its acronym sim emerged in the late nineteenth century in north america as one of the mission institutions spawned bv the conservative religious movements that eventually crystallized into what was termed fundamentalism in the 1920s.

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

In the 1980s two missions in asia and south america joined with sim. Sim is an international interdenominational evangelical christian mission organization. Unable to interest established missions most of which said reaching the sudan was impossible the three set out alone forming the sudan interior mission.

The initials originally stood for soudan interior mission soudan being an older spelling of the sudan region of west africa. A third merged with sim in 1998. Today our official name around the world is simply sim.

Soudan interior mission sim began in 1893. Unable to interest established missions most of which said reaching the soudan was impossible the three set out alone. Rowland bingham s history of the sudan interior mission by rob august 10 2016 following on from the last post here is the jubilee story of the sudan interior mission now the serving in mission sim as told by its founder roland v.

For leprosy researchers the files of interest are those of the sudan interior mission 1893 present which among its other activities operated leprosy hospitals in several countries in western and eastern africa. In french speaking countries it is known as société. This book is in the public domain.