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When Christians in the Nuba Mountains felt called to preach, they had to leave their homeland to attend a big-city Bible school. Too often, they never returned.

That has changed now that Samaritan’s Purse has built a Bible school in the Nuba Mountains to train pastors and evangelists for the 1.1 million people who live in the rugged and isolated region. The first class of 35 men—many of them already filling pulpits—are well on their way to completing their course of study and training, and dozens more are eagerly waiting to begin classes.

“Our heart is here in Nuba,” the director of the school said. “We live here. We are going to work here. Even if there is another war, we want to assure you the work will continue.”

The Nuba Mountains are near the border between North and South Sudan and suffered greatly during the civil war that raged from 1983 to 2005.

Samaritan's Purse has rebuilt over 260 churches to replace those destroyed in the fighting. More than 120 are in the Nuba Mountains. Many preachers were killed. Their replacements often have little formal education, much less Bible school training.

A recent evangelism conference at the Bible school determined that 50 tribes in the Nuba Mountains still need to be reached with the Gospel.

“We want to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to places it hasn’t been heard,” a student said.

The Bible school was visited March 3 by Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse ministry partner Sami Dagher, who organized the school and sends teachers from seminaries in Lebanon and Syria.

“Our dreams were small,” the director told them. “The Lord has heard our prayers and brought us wonderful people like you. We have started small but we trust God the work is going to grow. You have given us a starting point.”