Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 9 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 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 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 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
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
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 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
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. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Missionaries. 8
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Missions -- Kenya. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Animism. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Belgium. 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Bible. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Christian education -- Kenya. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Kenya. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Education 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Family. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Missions -- Africa, East. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions -- Comoros. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Tanzania. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Refugees 2
- Social change. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- Kenya. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
- African American missionaries. 1
- Animism -- Central African Republic. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Bible colleges 1 ∧ less
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