ECWA Church History SIM/ECWA HISTORY SIM is an international, interdenominational Christian mission organization. It was established in 1893 by its three founders, Walter Gowans and Rowland Bingham of Canada and Thomas Kent of the United States. The Founding of SIM in Africa The vision for SIM (and ECWA) was first born in the heart of a woman – Margaret (Craig) Gowans. Margaret Craig was born in 1836 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and married a brewer in Kilmarnock named John Gowans (1836-1906) in 1861. She was the first person in SIM/ECWA history to have a vision to take the gospel to the Soudan, which then led to what we know today as ECWA. They had nine children and emigrated to Toronto, Canada, in 1879.. Mrs. Gowans fervently believed that world-wide missions was an important part of the church’s calling. It was due, in part, to her influence that two of their children became missionaries. Annie , their oldest, went to China in 1892. Walter , their fifth
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Help our youth the truth to know
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And living just and true
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To build a nation where peace and justice shall reign
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