Rowland Bingham

I have decided to start posting about my favorite books that I am reading. Here is my first one.

I just borrowed a book called Rowland Bingham. It is fascinating! He did a lot of things that took TREMENDOUS amounts of faith. When he first went to Africa with two other men representing the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), they had no one behind them but one of the men's mother. He eventually had to come back because the two other men had died. He married and got more people into the mission. Soon he had donations from many places, including a girl's school. He ended up getting many mission stations set up in Nigeria and met people who were willing to donate to his personal needs and the mission. He had an interesting way of sending out missionaries that I doubt many people used. He insisted on having each missionary live with them in his apartment. That way he could learn their personalities and dreams so he could match them up with the right station! During a tour of the world, he came to realize that the people in places like New Zealand and Australia couldn't get to Nigeria very easily. He wished he could have mission stations in East Africa. God heard his prayer. He ended up meeting a man who, like himself, had started a three-man mission in Ethiopia. They soon were working together. Despite doing all these things he also opened a school in America for missionary children. This would help them stay healthy and give them education till they were old enough to join their parents. The SIM ended up owning a press called The Evangelical Christian, a missionary boarding house, numerous mission stations in Nigeria and Ethiopia. Rowland Victor Bingham died in 1942 of a stroke.