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Malek Bible School, Southern Sudan

Malek Bible School is one of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) institutions that offer theological education in the Province for church leaders from the Dioceses of Bor, Wau, Malakal, Renk, Yirol, Rumbek, Chueibet, Kadugli and other ECS dioceses who are found in the displacement and refugee camps.

The main campus of the college is at Kakuma refugee camp in north-western Kenya, where the college has constructed a permanent building. The other two training centres are at the Nimule displacement camp on the Sudan-Uganda border, and at Wunengoor in the Bor area inside Sudan.

A brief history

Malek Bible School was opened in August 1991 as an institution within the Diocese of Bor. The college is named "Malek" after a black and brown goat that was slaughtered on 31 January 1906, in honour of the missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) who came to establish the mission station. Among them, Archibald Shaw – who later become Archdeacon for the whole of Southern Sudan – was nicknamed "Macuor" (Machuor) by the Dinka people, his hosts.

Continuing instability in the area forced the college to relocate to the Kakuma Refugee Camp north-western Kenya in April 1995 with the help of an American mission partner, the Revd Dr Marc Nikkel, who was serving as diocesan fundraiser and acting principal of Malek Bible School.

The college remains at Kakuma, and has recently completed its first permanent building (pictured here), containing a 50-person classroom, a library (part of which is pictured below), a staff office, and a staff room.

In 1996 the college opened extension pastoral training centres at Newcush displacement camp on the Sudan-Uganda and Sudan-Kenya borders. The same year, the college re-opened its training centre at Yomchiir in the Bor area. It was later moved to Wunengoor on the bank of the River Nile tributaries, which was seen as a convenient training venue, given the insecurity at Yomchiir, Bor South.

For a detailed history of Malek Bible School, general information, and a description of its courses, download a Word file here, written by the principal, The Revd Nathaniel Bol Nyok. He can be contacted at malekbschool@yahoo.com.

(Left) The Revd Nathaniel Bol Nyok, principal of Malek Bible School, Episcopal Diocese of Bor, Sudan

(Below) The ruins of one of the first Anglican missionary houses, destroyed during the first Sudanese civil war.

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