Borneo Evangelical Church

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Borneo Evangelical Church
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Evangelical, Charismatic
Polity	Interdependent local, regional and national expressions
Senior Pastors	Chew Weng Chee, Bina Agong, Lew Lee Choo, Jerry Dusing
Associations	National Evangelical Christian Fellowship, Christian Federation of Malaysia, Sabah Theological Seminary, Council of Churches of Malaysia and Melbourne School of Theology
Region	Borneo (Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia, Brunei), West Malaysia
Founder	Hudson Southwell (Baptist), Frank Davidson and John Trevor White (Anglican), Carey Tolley (Church of the Brethren)
Origin	1928 Sarawak, Malaysia
Branched from	Borneo Evangelical Mission
Members	500,000

The Borneo Evangelical Church or SIB (Malay: Sidang Injil Borneo) is an evangelical Christian denomination in Malaysia. The church was organised in 1959 from the work of the Borneo Evangelical Mission with help from the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in Indonesia (Indonesian: Gereja Kemah Injil Indonesia), an ethnic Torajan-based Protestant church in South Sulawesi province (also an offshoot denomination of the Christian and Missionary Alliance as a result of its mission work in the said region), which is currently headquartered nationally in Senen, Central Jakarta.^[1]

Claiming more than 500,000 members,^[2] the SIB church is the largest Protestant denomination in Malaysia having evolved from a small missionary presence among the Lun Bawang people of the Kelabit Highlands and Sipitang, Kenyahs, Kelabits and Kayans of Bario, Miri, Baram and Bintulu, the Ibans and Bisayas of Limbang, the Dusuns of Kota Belud as well as Ranau and to a lesser extent the Muruts of Tenom, Nabawan, Beaufort and Keningau, all located in Sabah as well as Bidayuhs in Kuching, Lundu, Serian and Bau and also the Melanaus in Mukah, Dalat and Matu-Daro in Sarawak.