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Published on: 12-29-2020
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s first missionaries arrived in Egypt in 1899, but they had little success. By the autumn of 1908, 10 Adventists were in Egypt, and three of them were missionaries; only seven local believers had been won in almost 10 years. In September 1908, however, two new missionaries arrived: George and Mary-Ann Keough.
GEORGE AND MARY-ANN KEOUGH
George Keough was born in Scotland and raised in Northern Ireland. Mary-Ann was from Yorkshire, England. Both regions are known for producing people who were strongminded and willful. They would need stubbornness and self-belief in their assignment.
George Keough quickly grasped (as he later recalled) that Adventist mission work in Egypt “was only for expatriates with no influence on the local people.” On arriving, he was told not to learn Arabic that there was no point, because local people could not be won.