Source: Tibebe Eshete (2009). The Evangelical Movement in Ethiopia: Resistance and Resilience. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.
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Yonas Gorfe in the chapter on the history of Ethiopian gospel music in his book Bet Yataw Betegna:
The youth who set off the revival movement were university students with close relationships to different western programs, such as:
- the American Peace Corps
- the English program conducted at the SIM mission station
(located in the vicinity of Black Lion Hospital) - the conferences of Mennonite missionaries in Nazareth
(now called Adama) - the annual revival program run by the Swedish Pentecostal Mission in Hawassa
- the Finnish Pentecostal mission in the Merkato area of Addis Ababa
- the Ethiopian University Students Christian Fellowship (which merged with other groups to form the Evangelical Students and Graduates Union of Ethiopia, EvaSUE)
- and the Mekane Yesus young peoples’ youth hostels (which translated Christian songs popular in America and published them in the hymnal Mezmur lewotatoch)