Includes bibliographical references and index.

""Toronto the good :"" the Canadian roots of the Sudan Interior Mission / Alvyn Austin -- ""The Soudan is Satan's greatest stronghold :"" revisiting the idea of the Soudan in the early history of the Sudan Interior Mission / Tim Geysbeek -- ""The burden of the Sudan :"" how SIM & ECWA approached Islam / Paul Todd -- SIM Hausa mission : ministering among peoples on the margin (Yan' Babu class) in northern Nigeria / Musa A.B. Gaiya -- Tacking to the winds of change : the SIM and education policy in South Sudan, 1937-1954 / Douglas H. Johnson -- Remembering Chali : the SIM in the Sudan-Ethiopian borderlands (1938-64) and its social legacy / Wendy James -- Accommodating changes and alternative responses : a comparative assessment of the role of the SIM youth center in Ethiopia / Tibebe Eshete -- History and challenges of the Evangelical Church in Niger, 1923-2013 : the case of the Evangelical Church of the Republic of Niger (EERN) / Addo Mahamane -- Dr. Thomas A. Lambie : pioneer medical missionary in East Africa / E. Paul Balisky -- Maternal health in Niger and the evangelical imperative : the life of a missionary nurse in the post-war era / Barbara M. Cooper -- Locating Christian missions in histories of newly emerging diseases : SIM's experiences with lassa fever and ebola / Shobana Shankar -- ""Shadow and sunlight"" : images of Christianization from the pages of the Sudan Witness 1923-1945 / Andrew E. Barnes -- Resourcing pastors in Ghana for holistic ministry : an assessment of Challenge National Pastors and Christian Leaders Conferences, 2000-2010 / Maxwell Darteh -- The patron's press : an examination of the climate of news broadcasting at radio ELWA through personal narratives / Ronald J. Shope -- Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) and the neglected Gbagyi story / Gwamna Dogara -- SIM and the Tangale factor / Reuben Maiture -- SIM and church polity in Ethiopia / Tesfaye Yacob -- Reflections / Yusufu Turaki.

This book tells the story of the collaborative efforts of missionaries of the SIM, an international Christian mission founded in North America, and African Christians to evangelize in the wider Sudan (generally meaning countries spanning from Senegal to Ethiopia). In 1893, when SIM was formed, the Sudan--home to Islam, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and African traditional religions--had seen little Protestant Christian evangelism. Within ten years, most of the region came under the yoke of European imperialism, and, over the next several decades, missionaries flooded this little-touched mission field. Yet the story of the SIM, perhaps the most widely active mission in the Sudan, stands apart because it was not attached to any imperial power or state church, such as the Church Missionary Society of the Anglican Church. The SIM was an interdenominational society sending missionaries from North America, Australia, and various European countries to the Sudan.--Provided by publisher.