<P> As he tells it, Church soon returned to his mission station in Gahini, Rwanda, where he instituted a similar regimen of plain Bible readings and daily prayer, from which the pattern of the East African Revival emerged in the early 1930s . The message was then carried throughout East Africa by small bands of African preachers, who brought a message of the severity of sin and the need for individuals to confess their sins publicly and have them washed in the powerful blood of Jesus . </P> <P> Church's narrative efforts (and his status as the central European responsible for the movement) did not go uncontested . As conflicts between revived and non-revived Ugandan Anglicans approached a breaking point in the early 1940s, they drove the British Bishop of Uganda, C.E. Stuart, to counter Church's historical ownership of the revival's origins . </P> <P> Attempting to claim the credit for the revival's spread across southern Uganda and elsewhere, Bishop Stuart argued that the revival didn't really begin until he invited Joe Church and African revival "brethren" to conduct missions for the Uganda Jubilee in 1937 . Later, he also claimed that the training he provided to a handful of ordinands in Kampala in the early 1930s "softened the soil" for the revival to sprout in the late 1930s . The revival, therefore, was an outgrowth of his vision and efforts, though he never joined the revival personally . And his chronological imagination sought to bolster his contested authority as the bishop of a divided church . </P> <P> Then there is a history (unpublished, housed at the Henry Martyn Centre) written by Simeon Nsibambi in the early 1970s . Intriguingly, Nsibambi's own accounts contest Church's history by stating off the top: "The Revival in Uganda has been running for 50 years, that is from 1922 ." For Nsibambi, the revival began when he received a personal blessing from God that drove him into a deeper spiritual quest and resulted in his greater attentiveness to prayer and Bible study . </P>

Quest for the highest an autobiographical account of the east african revival