ECWA Guest House, Kano, was formerly known as the SIM Rest Home, located within the same compound as the Eye Hospital (mission compound), opposite Kano Pillars Stadium, Kano. It was established by SIM missionaries in 1933, built by Rev. and Mrs. C. Gordon Beacham, the first SIM missionaries stationed in Kano. The building was designed to resemble traditional flat-roofed houses of Kano City.

The missionaries organized activities such as church services, dispensary and eye hospital work, schools for the blind, Bible and elementary education, youth programs, and village visitations. The station also served as a transit camp for missionaries traveling within or outside Nigeria.

In the early 1970s, the name changed from SIM Rest Home to ECWA Guest House, marking the transition from SIM to ECWA. Nigerian staff were increasingly recruited, and management shifted locally by the early 1980s. Notable managers included Mallam Lawani Karoni Ibrahim, Mrs. Hannatu Audu Maikano (until her passing in 1993), and several others afterward.

By 2002, under Mr. Isuwa Y. Sarki, reconstruction followed a fire that had damaged parts of the compound. In 2004, a ₦35 million loan from the ECWA Staff Investment Scheme funded a two-storey building with 28 rooms, dedicated on June 24, 2006, by Rev. Ezekiel Mipo Dadang.

As of 2018, the Guest House had:

• 48 guest rooms

• 5 offices

• 2 changing rooms

• 1 mini conference hall

• A kitchen and restaurant

List of Managers (1984–2018)

1. Mrs. Edna Wuibe — 1984

2. Miss Jean Banheart — 1984 (six months)

3. Mrs. Hannatu Audu Maikano — 1985–1994

4. Mrs. Maryam Karaye — 1994 (Ag. Manageress)

5. Mrs. Maryam Adamu — 1995–1996

6. Mrs. Juliana B. Dagwa — 1997–1998

7. Mrs. Cindy Duane Sampson — 1998–1999

8. Miss Ladi Usman Abdu — 1999–2002

9. Mr. Isuwa Sarki — 2002–2014

10. Miss Esther Bidam — 2014–2015 (Ag. Manageress)

11. Mr. Davou Dung — 2016–present