The creation of the Republic of South Sudan, on 9 July 2011, stands as one of the most difficult political adventures in Africa’s post-colonial history. Clergymen tried to bring the country together, each in his own way. Reverend Franklin Graham, an American Evangelical figurehead, went the furthest in offering salvation joined with political support. He drew all eyes to a giant, evangelizing crusade, “Hope for a New Nation” in Juba on the 26th and 27th of October, 2012. This article begins with an analysis of the many traumas and ruptures suffered by the Sudanese, followed by a focus on the rhetoric and theatrics of the conversion experience. It ends with an analysis of the social effects of calling for conversion, looking at American-style Evangelicalism in a context marked by heavy legacies.