Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
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
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
Collection 093 Oral History Interview with Earl A. Winsor
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
Collection 230 Oral History Interview with John A. Gration
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
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1997
Collection 438 Oral History Interview with Paul F. Hurlburt Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 438
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Frederick Hurlburt (1927-1996) in which he describes the work of his grandfather (Charles E.) and father (Paul F. E.) as missionaries and mission administrators in east central Africa; languages skills among missionaries; the development of Christianity among the nade people of Zaire, including their worship practices and music; and the influence of witchcraft in the area. The time period covered by the interview is approximately 1898 to 1990.Paul...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 447 Oral History Interview with Scott J. Harbert
Collection
Identifier: CN 447
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Scott Jeffrey Harbert in which he discusses his family, growing up, meeting his father as an adult, influences on his childhood and adolescence, contacts with Shintoism in Japan, problem with marijuana, conversion to Christianity and influence of Richard Foster, college education and participation in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, work as a staff member at the IVCF headquarters, marriage to Barbara Gration, the development of Concerts of Prayer, short-term...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Collection 451 Papers of Bernard L. J. Litchman
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
Collection 468 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth C. Stough
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
Collection 496 Papers of Mabel Buyse
Collection
Identifier: CN 496
Scope and Contents
Diaries, photographs, correspondence, and a scrapbook relating to Mabel Easton Buyse’s missionary service with Africa Inland Mission among the Dungu and Bafuka people groups in Belgian Congo (later, Zaire) before her marriage and later service in Aru and Kasengu, Belgian Congo; Goli, Uganda; and Opari, Sudan. Buyse was involved with setting up, operating, and teaching in schools in each place she worked. The scrapbook deals with the 1941 sinking of the Zamzam, in which her brother-in-law,...
Dates:
Created: 1908-1967
Collection 508 Oral History Interviews with Barbara L. Collins
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
Collection 641 Oral History Interviews with David Kirwa Tarus
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 Barak Obama. The interview covers the time period 1979-2008.David...
Dates:
2008
Collection 690: Oral History Interviews with Elias Kiptoo Ng’etich
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
Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Christianity and culture. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Christianity and culture. 11
- Evangelistic work. 10
- Missionaries. 9
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Missions -- Kenya. 8
- Animism. 7
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 6
- Belgium. 5
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 5
- Christian education -- Kenya. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Education 5
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 5
- Missions -- Zaire. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Belgium. -- Colonies 4
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Kenya -- Religion. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church and state -- Kenya. 3
- Church discipline. 3
- College students. 3
- Education -- Zaire. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Kenya. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Kenya 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa, East. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Nationalism. 3
- Polygamy. 3
- Social change. 3
- Swahili language. 3
- Tribes -- Zaire. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 2
- Animism -- Kenya. 2
- Animism -- Zaire. 2
- Baptism. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with military personnel. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Church work with youth -- United States. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- Clergy, training of -- Kenya. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Hymns. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zaire. 2 ∧ less
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