Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:
Addison C. Tanner Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 613
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Addison Carl Tanner (1932-2012) a missionary with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in Tanzania and publisher of Christian literature. Tanner describes his mission work, the Tanzanian people, Christianity and animism, political situation in Tanzania, role of tribal chiefs, his conversion and call to mission work, changes in the Tanzanian church, and role of women in the African Inland Church. The time period covered in the interview is 1932 to 1988.Addison...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Africa Inland Mission (AIM) Africa Training Fund materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-033
Dates:
2000-2018
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Africa Inland Mission (AIM) commemorative centennial poster.
Unprocessed Material — oversized_materials: 1
Identifier: 1995-098
Dates:
1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Africa Inland Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 081
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, minutes of meetings, films, videos, audio recordings, and other materials documenting the work of the mission in east Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Zaire, Tanzania, Sudan, the Central African Republic) and other regions of the continent. The bulk of the collection consists of the files of the US branch of the mission, although there are also significant amounts of material from the international office and the Tanzanian field office. Topics covered include...
Dates:
Created: 1888-2009
Africa Inland Mission station painting.
Unprocessed Material — map_case: 1
Identifier: 2016-014
Dates:
1912
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Alan Hovingh materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2008-057
Dates:
1960
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Barbara L. Collins Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 508
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Barbara Lynn (Miner) Collins in which she describes her childhood; family's religious background; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development in college and young professional life; acceptance as a missionary by Africa Inland Mission (AIM); arrival on the mission field in Kenya; work among the Rendile and Kikuyu peoples; raising children on the mission field; development of women's program at Africa Inland Church Missionary College; work among women refugees...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Bernard L. J. Litchman Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 451
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of diaries, negatives, photographs, and slides created by Bernard "Jack" Litchman about his work with Africa Inland Mission in the former Belgian Congo (now Zaire), mostly among the Balendu people, in and around the Linga mission station, as well as involvement in setting up Sunday Schools, churches, itinerant preaching, and other mission activities as well as working as a health officer for the Belgian government.
Dates:
Created: 1917-1971
Charles H. Dawson Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 386
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Charles H. Dawson (1916-2000) in which he describes his family background; conversion; involvement in street preaching; jail ministry and other work in the Camden area; involvement in the work of the Afro-American Missionary Crusade; and philosophy of Christian work. Other topics discussed include Dawson's training at the New Jersey Bible School; street preaching; Montrose Waite; Dawson's trips to Africa from the 1960s through the 1980s; training African...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Cindy Judge Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 656
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Cynthia L. Judge, a volunteer leader in the Short-Term Missions movement (STM). Topics discussed: Judge’s childhood in Rockford, Illinois; development of her Christian faith; attendance at Moody Bible Institute; Chicago in 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King; work as a staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ in Tennessee and West Virginia; marriage to James Judge; short-term mission trips to Ecuador and Kenya; Africa Inland Mission and Africa...
Dates:
2010
Clarence W. Jones Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 349
Scope and Contents
Collection includes correspondence, reports, sermons, memos, minutes of meetings, clippings, photographs, videotapes, slides, and other materials relating to the career of mission executive Clarence W. Jones. The materials deal mainly with his work at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle and the growth and development of the organization he helped found, the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, and especially its primary broadcasting station, HCJB in Ecuador. There is also an extensive amount of...
Dates:
Created: 1915-1986
Collection 330 - Moody Church Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 330
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started in 1864 by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946. Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities in the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents such...
Dates:
Created: 1864-1987
Collection 624 - ZamZam Incident Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 624
Scope and Contents
Diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, oral history interviews, correspondence, photos, and other materials relating to the passengers, mainly American missionaries, who were aboard the ship Zamzam, sunk in the south Atlantic Ocean in 1941 by a German warship. Materials describe the sinking, the subsequent experiences of the passengers as German prisoners and the internment of some for the duration of the war, and reunions held in later years by the survivors and their families.
Dates:
Created: 1941-2012
David Kirwa Tarus Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 641
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Kirwa Tarus, a Kenyan pastor and theologian. Tarus describes the ministry of his parents; growing up in Kenya; his conversion; spiritual development; Scott Theological College; the Africa Inland Church in Kenya; Scott’s satellite campus in Eldoret; the general condition of Christianity in Kenya; his impressions of the United States and Wheaton Graduate School; the 2008 election of Barack Obama. The interview covers the time period 1979-2008....
Dates:
2008
Downing Family papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 2017-036
Dates:
1876-2015
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Earl A. Winsor Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 093
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Earl Austin Winsor (1897-1983) in which he discusses his education at Wheaton College as a student (1919-1920) and teacher (1920-25, history, and 1939-1949, math and physics) and his missionary experiences in Africa under Africa Inland Mission, serving in what is now Zaire. Wheaton personalities, mission experiences, especially those relating to his education work, and analysis of his exposure to African government, churches, tribal customs, and health practices....
Dates:
Created: 1979-1980
Eldo and Verona Epp films and audio tape.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2008-022
Dates:
1952-1959
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elias Kiptoo Ng’etich Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 690
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elias Ng’etich, in which he describes his family background, the African Inland Church (AIC) he grew up in, his spiritual development and conversion, worship and Christian life in the church in which he grew up, youth evangelism activities, his first days at Scott Theological College, pastor of the AIC church in Chebaiyowo, Kenya; Moi University; typical day as a pastor, creation of the Scott satellite campus in Eldoret and teaching there; relations between...
Dates:
2012
Elizabeth C. Stough Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993
Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2022-024
Dates:
1930-1972
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elizabeth Stephenson letters.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2009-019
Dates:
1923-1934
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elizabeth Stough diaries.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2013-045
Dates:
1939-2008
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elwood L. Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 452
Scope and Contents
Diaries, photographs, and miscellaneous materials about Elwood L. Davis and his medical missionary work in Kenya for the Africa Inland Mission (AIM). Topics covered include brief descriptions of daily life in Africa, of his army medical service during World War I, places visited, colleagues entertained, services held, birth of his sons, death of his wife, etc.; diaries cover, with a few gaps, the years 1902 until his death in 1961; includes information on his father, various licenses and...
Dates:
Created: 1882-1961
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Elwood L. Davis Papers
Emil and Marie Sywulka Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 551
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of letters, documenting the lives and ministry service of Marie and Emil Sywulka, missionaries with Africa Inland Mission in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika Territory) from 1906-1964. Collection contains handwritten letters on regular or airmail paper, typed and printed prayer letters, and pamphlets, newspaper clippings, tracts, and other materials previously sent with the letters. Collection primarily contains letters from Marie and occasionally from Emil to their family...
Dates:
1907-1971
Erik S. Barnett Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Evelyn Camp papers.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1995-032
Dates:
1917-1988
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evelyn M. Camp Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 509
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Evelyn Mildred Camp (1915-1999), missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1944 to 1961. Topics discussed include Camp's experience as a child of missionaries, her missionary work in schools for boys and girls at Oicha and Blukwa AIM stations, her family's economic hardships, furloughs, the social life of missionary children, education at Rethy Academy, call to missionary work, training at...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Gladys Wright Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Grant B. Schmalgemeier, Sr., papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1985-053
Dates:
1919-1926
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Hal Olsen pamphlet.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1986-138
Dates:
1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Herbert and Frieda Atkinson Video Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 607
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interviews with Dr. Herbert Andrew Atkinson (1931-2009) and his wife, Frieda Elizabeth (Paul) Atkinson (1930- ), missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo. Dr. Atkinson discusses his family background, conversion, Wheaton College, influence of his roommate Bill Kornfield and Dr. V. Raymond Edman, God's provision for his entering medical school, ministry in Oicha, obstacles in communication with the Congolese, lessons learned on the mission field. Frieda...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Herbert Downing home movies.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2018-016
Dates:
1937-1953
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Herbert Downing letter.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2019-021
Dates:
1946
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Herbert Downing Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 251
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Herbert Downing (1905-1986) in which he describes his childhood as a child of missionaries in Kenya, attending Rift Valley Academy in Kenya, a visit of Theodore Roosevelt to the Academy, his father's work as pastor and administrator, Africa Inland Mission's policy on the education of missionary children, and Downing's own work as an educator at Rift Valley Academy. The time period covered by the interview is 1905-1983Herbert Downing was intereviewed by...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 352
Brief Description
Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions. The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented, among them those related to the theoretical, theological, or practical aspects of the missionary enterprise, such as missionary aviation, the education of future missionaries, theological...
Dates:
Created: 1934-1983, undated
International Christian Broadcasters Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 086
Brief Description
The collection contains correspondence, audiotapes, photographs, financial reports, slides, blueprints, and memos related to the activities of International Christian Broadcasting's (originally the World Conference on Mission Radio) work to promote interest in Christian broadcasting and to support and encourage Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasters, largely engaged in evangelism. Materials include data on the International Communications Congress in Tokyo (1970), Muslim...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1978; Other: Majority of material found within 1954-1978
James and Lila Propst photographs.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2005-066
Dates:
1960-1969
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Jarbas Da Silva Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 523
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jarbas Da Silva in which he discusses his childhood in San Paulo, Brazil; conversion to Christianity; Baptist Bible College; Russell Shedd; joining the Africa Inland Mission as a missionary to Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Brazil; first impressions of Mozambique; the development of Sofala Bible Institute Beira City, Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Mozambique; aftermath of the civil war; his perspective on the need for...
Dates:
Created: 1994
Jenny Owen Mudge missionary scrapbook.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2008-065
Dates:
1903-1906
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Jim Vaus Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 693
Scope and Contents
Newsletters, oral history transcripts, manuscripts, correspondence, slides, photographs, audio recordings, and films relating to Jim Vaus’ youth ministry work in East Harlem, NY and later youth camp ministries in New York and California and internationally with the Missionary Communication Service. The collection also contains material on Jim Vaus’ work as a wiretapper for the Los Angeles mob prior to his conversion to Christianity at the 1949 Los Angeles Billy Graham Crusade, and the 1955...
Dates:
Created: 1950-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Jim Vaus Papers
John A. Allen photo album.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2018-021
Dates:
1948-1955
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John A. Gration Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 230
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John Alexander Gration (1926-2012). Topics discussed include: Gration's Christian activities in high school and the U.S. Navy, education at Moody Bible Institute, Gordon College, and Wheaton College; his spiritual growth and call to become a missionary, his marriage, and his first impressions of and missionary experiences with Africa Inland mission in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Christianity and culture, animism, superstition, AIM...
Dates:
Created: 1982
John and Florence Stauffacher Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 281
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes, clippings, and photographs relating to the Stauffachers' work as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission, chiefly from 1911 to the early 1940s. The materials document their careers from the earliest stages, describing their responsibilities and everyday life, primarily in Kenya and the Belgian Congo, but also in Uganda & Tanzania, their developing relationship by correspondence prior to Mrs. Stauffacher's arrival in Kenya and their subsequent...
Dates:
Created: 1902-1973
John Gration files on Africa and missions.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1996-002
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John Gration oral history interviews.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1996-017
Dates:
1996
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John Linquist materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2006-030
Dates:
1936-2006
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John R. Stauffacher Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 513
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which John Raymond Stauffacher in which he describes his childhood in Kenya, missionary parents John and Florence Stauffacher, his brother Claudon, missions in Kenya, the Masai people, Mrs. Westervelt and the Westervelt Home, studying and teaching at Rift Valley Academy, Charles Hurlburt, the Mau Mau Rebellion, Great Britain's colonial administration of Kenya, Christian life, conversion, missionary call, language learning and missionary work with Africa Inland...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Kenneth L. Shingledecker Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 297
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth L. Shingledecker in which he describes his work with college students in Student Training in Missions, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, planning Urbana '79 student missions convention, missionary work in Kenya for Daystar Communications, and the development of Christian leadership in the church in Kenya. The collection also includes a folder of prayer letters, ranging from 1985-1990.Topics covered in the oral history interview include...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1990
Kenya Bretta Johnson papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2004-069
Dates:
1929-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 47
- Unprocessed Material 39
- Subject
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 29
- Missions -- Kenya. 26
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 25
- Conversion -- Christianity. 22
- Missions -- Educational work. 20
- Women missionaries. 17
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 16
- Missionaries -- Training of. 15
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 14
- Language in missionary work. 14
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 13
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 12
- Children of missionaries. 11
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 11
- Missions -- Africa. 11
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 10
- Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa. 9
- Christianity and culture. 9
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 9
- Missions -- Finance. 9
- Missions, Medical. 9
- Women -- Religious life. 9
- Christian life. 8
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 8
- Missions -- Tanzania. 8
- Bible -- Translating. 7
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 7
- Christian education -- Kenya. 7
- Christian leadership. 7
- Religious institutions. 7
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Baptism. 6
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 6
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 6
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Animism. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
- Church discipline. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social life and customs. 5
- Families. 5
- Fund raising. 5
- Kenya -- Religion. 5
- Kijabe (Kenya) 5
- Kikuyu (African people) 5
- Masai (African people) 5
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 5
- Missionaries -- United States. 5
- Missions -- Africa, East. 5
- Missions -- Sudan. 5
- Missions, Medical -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Public worship -- Christianity. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Swahili language. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 4
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 4
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 4
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. 4
- Evangelicalism -- Kenya. 4
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 4
- Marriage. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 4
- Missions -- Nigeria. 4
- Missions -- Uganda. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni and alumnae. 4
- Pygmies. 4
- Sermons, American. 4
- Theological seminaries -- Kenya. 4
- Tribes -- Kenya. 4
- World War, 1914-1918. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Worship -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 3
- Animism -- Kenya. 3
- Belgium -- Administration. 3
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
- Bible colleges -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church and state -- Kenya. 3
- Church fund raising. 3
- Clergy -- Training of -- Kenya. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Illinois -- Chicago. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- Hymns. 3
- Indigenous church administration. 3 ∧ less
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