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ducted full parish programs using the Evangelical Church facil­
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i ities. The National Evangelical Church itself, although it

considers itself to he a sister church of the Reformed Church
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in America, is completely independent. Until 1971, the Reformed
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Church had subsidized the Rational Evangelical Church, but
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since 1972 the constituent congregations had supported their

% own pastors and the Evangelical Church was no longer dependent

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In all, the three Rational Evangelical Church congrega­

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had about three hundred members. Its pastor, a Coptic Evan­
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gelical secunded from the Synod of the Rile to Kuwait, the

Rev. Yusef Abdul Roor, was president and treasurer of the
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Rational Evangelical Church’s Common Council and lived in the
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residence closest to the church. The English language Congreg­
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ation also had about three hundred members (50$ Indian, 20$
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British, 20$ American, 10$ other) and a Reformed Church pastor,

recruited through Rev; York but selected, called and financed

by the local congregation, The pastor and his wife lived

in the parsonage built for the Calverleys in 1917 and acted

\ informally as the principal link between the Reformed Church

The third congregation,
and the Rational Evangelical Church,
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! the Kuwait Town Maiayalee Christian Congregation, was composed
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three hundred persons and sponsored two other congregations,

the Telegu and Tamil, which numbered about one hundred and

fifty members each. More simply put, the Evangelical Church