223. Impact of Labuan for Anglicans Sabah

I was born in Labuan 102 years after the missionaries came to Labuan and set up Church of our Holy Saviour, where I was baptised and confirmed.  So this could be the reasons amongst others that I am the one that had taken AVCF to Court to restore the tradition of Anglican Diocese of Sabah being the founders or pioneers of the Anglican Church (our promise land) now destroyed by AVCF. History or His Story or God's story is very important not to be ignored and AVCF should resign now or should have resigned since 2012.  Joshua

 

 http://www.anglicansabah.org/2010.1/aboutus.htm

About the Anglican Church in Sabah

The Early Days The Sabah Anglican Interior Mission The Diocese & The Province The People, Priests & Bishops

The Early Days As early as 1846, a mission organisation – the Borneo Church Mission Institution – was founded in England with the specific task of evangelising the island of Borneo. The first missionaries, led by Francis McDougall, arrived in Sarawak in 1848 (This was 6 years before Hudson Taylor first arrived in China!). Father McDougall was a surgeon by training. Seven years later, on 18 October 1855, Fr Francis McDougall was consecrated Bishop of Labuan. The Diocese of Labuan covered a very large area. It included Sarawak, North Borneo (now Sabah), Brunei, Singapore, Malaya (now West Malaysia) and Bangkok. A large part of the ministry was to provide a chaplaincy to the European expatriates. Work also began among the Hakka Christians from Hong Kong and China. Bishop McDougall wanted to use Labuan as a base to reach out to the Dusuns in the Interior. The Church of Our Holy Saviour was consecrated in 1866, and has the longest history of any parish in the Diocese of Sabah. Following the footsteps of Bishop McDougall were scores of missionaries. Some came as priests, and their families. Others came as teachers and medical personnel. Many of them were sent b the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG), while others by the Church Missionary Society (CMS). All of them served with the fullest dedication in the midst of every primitive conditions in olden day Borneo. We praise God for every one of them.