Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 7 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 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
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
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missions -- Kenya. 5
- Animism. 4
- Belgium. 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Christian education -- Kenya. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Education 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 3
- Medical care 3
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 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 -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa, East. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Refugees 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Tribes. 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
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Bunia (Congo) 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History. 1
- China. 1
- Christian education -- Curricula. 1
- Christian education -- Tanzania. 1 ∧ less
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