Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 251 Oral History Interview with Herbert Downing
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
Collection 281 Papers of John and Florence Stauffacher
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
Collection 297 Papers of Kenneth L. Shingledecker
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
Collection 386 Oral History Interview with Charles H. Dawson
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
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 479 Oral History Interview with William A. Stier
Collection
Identifier: CN 479
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with William Adam Stier (1912-2004), missionary with Africa Inland Mission in Tanzania from 1938 to 1978. Topics covered in the two sessions include his youth and conversion, marriage, Bible school education, call to missions, his work with the Sakuma and Tuzu peoples, his ministry as a teacher of African pastors; the transition from mission to indigenous church control in Tanzania, the policies and personnel of AIM, Emil Sywulka, political changes in Tanzania,...
Dates:
Created: 1993
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 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett
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
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. Also includes series of maps of Latin American countries identifying nondenominational and denominational mission activity. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented. Persons prominently featured include Jack Frizen, Billy Graham, and...
Dates:
Created: 1934-1983, undated
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 11
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 11
- Christian education. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missions -- Kenya. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Animism. 5
- Bible colleges 5
- Bible. 5
- Christian leadership. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Polygamy. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Belgium. 4
- Christian education -- Kenya. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Education 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Zaire. 4
- Missions. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church discipline. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Masai (African people) 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Nationalism. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Swahili language. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Animism -- Zaire. 2
- Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- Kenya. 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with military personnel. 2
- Church work with youth -- United States. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Education -- Zaire. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- New Jersey. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Kijabe (Kenya) 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Nationalism -- Zaire. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Polygamy -- Zaire. 2
- Prisoners 2
- Racism. 2
- Refugees 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Social change. 2
- Superstition -- Zaire. 2
- Superstition. 2
- Tanzania 2
- Tanzania -- Description and travel. 2
- Theology 2 ∧ less
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