Kenneth Grant Fraser
or "Dr Fraser" as he is commonly remembered, was a Scottish missionary doctor and educator in Southern Sudan, specifically working among the Moru people.
He was converted to be a committed Christian while serving in South Africa during the Boer War, through overhearing some officers discuss spirituality.
On returning to Scotland, Fraser enrolled in evening school and did well, going on to study medicine at Edinburgh and Glasgow, qualifying in July 1914[1] with the express aim of becoming a medical missionary.
Eileen had meanwhile had a period teaching, together with her elder half sister Alice, in Sudan at Omdurman and Wad Medani, and while there had learnt Arabic.
[4] Eileen enrolled as a nurse and served in France from February to July 1916 with the British Committee of the French Red Cross.
It enabled Dr. Fraser to develop a strategy, which drew heavily on his military experience, that the Holy Spirit was able to use to establish the church throughout Moru country.
[7] Dr and Mrs Fraser arrived in the Moru country on 22 December 1920, about ten years after the area became part of Sudan.
[9] Dr Fraser's strategy reflected his experience as a soldier, together with his skills as a doctor, a teacher and a preacher.
[10] An important part of Dr Fraser's strategy was moving out from the centre into the whole of the Moru, and neighbouring Jur and Avokaya areas, and he did this as soon as he had local people to do so.
Dr Fraser provided them with standardised medical kits and specific routines and procedures were established.
[11] By his death in 1935 Dr Fraser had managed to get a coverage of what is now Mundri county, with eleven dispensaries, based at the chiefs' areas.
In only a relatively few years the Moru people moved from disunited, fearful groups to being united as Christians and have maintained a cohesiveness ever since.
One of the very few criticisms heard of Dr Fraser from any Morus was that his work was devoid of any economic development programme.
Those who have not become doctors have become medical professionals at other levels, or entered professions like agriculture as a result of this desire to follow his example.
Both Kenneth and Fraser are common baptismal names amongst the Morus even today, reflecting the high esteem he is still held in amongst these people.
