ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on a range of sources, including historical documents and interviews with contemporary actors, to trace the emergence of Evangelical Church in Morocco (EEAM) and the Comite d’Entraide Internationale (CEI) within particular historical and geo-political context in Morocco. It begins with the history of the Protestant presence in Morocco from which EEAM later emerged. An examination of transformation demonstrates the main way that EEAM and the CEI have managed their growth and development, through being able to mobilise strategies of improvisation and invention. The chapter contends that EEAM and the CEI together are an example of a transnational religious community, and that rather than being separate category, transnational religious communities are a variation of local faith communities. The chapter concludes with an analysis of how EEAM and the CEI attempt to respond to their particular challenges through "founding text": EEAM's Declaration of Faith, in which a sanctified idea of the organisation as "recomposed family" is the central image.
