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Most mission studies have focused on the work of Western missionaries going to Majority World countries, with few examining indigenous churches and their relationship with Western mission agencies in practicing mission. This book is a historical study of the relationship between the Evangelical Church in Egypt and the American Presbyterian Mission. Wahba covers from when the missionary work began in 1854 until after the departure of the Mission from Egypt in 1967, and the transfer of all the work to the Egyptian Evangelical Church. Tracing the mission work of Egyptians within Egypt and neighbouring Sudan, Wahba analyses the impact that the relationship with the American Mission had and how it determined the indigenous Church's practice and perspective of mission.

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This is a highly significant and valuable analysis of how the work of the American Presbyterian Mission in Egypt from 1854 developed into a genuinely independent and self-supporting national church. Colin Chapman Former lecturer in Islamic Studies, Near East School of Theology, Beirut Visiting lecturer, Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut, Lebanon This is a significant historical critique of both Western mission efforts to Egypt and pioneering Egyptian indigenous mission efforts in the modern era. Keith Small Honorary Fellow, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK . . . an invaluable and illuminating perspective on the modern formation of Arabic- speaking Protestant communities in the Middle East. Stephen J. Davis Professor of Religious Studies Pierson College, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, New Haven, USA

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Rev. Dr. Tharwat Wahba is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical (Presbyterian) Church of Egypt. Tharwat did his PhD study with London School of Theology on the history of Presbyterian mission in Egypt and Sudan. Dr. Wahba is currently teacher of mission and evangelism and the Chair of Mission Department in the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC), Egypt. He worked as campus director with Campus Crusade for Christ in Egypt for 12 years.

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