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Africa Inland Mission.

 Organization

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

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 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

Collection 693 Papers of Jim Vaus

 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

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 by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of 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...
Dates: Created: 1864-1987

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  • Subject: Education X
  • Subject: Conversion. X

Additional filters:

Subject
Missionaries. 8
Christian education. 7
Evangelistic work. 7
Indigenous church administration 6
Missionaries -- Training of. 6
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Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
Missions -- Educational work. 6
Missions -- Finance. 5
Women missionaries. 5
Animism. 4
Children of missionaries. 4
Church and state. 4
Language in missionary work. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Missions -- Kenya. 4
Tribes. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Belgium. 3
Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
Christian leadership. 3
Christian life. 3
Christianity and culture. 3
Church discipline. 3
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
Conversion -- Personal narratives. 3
Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
Evangelicalism. 3
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
Missionaries -- United States. 3
Missions -- Africa. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Polygamy. 3
Theological seminaries. 3
World War, 1939-1945. 3
African Americans. 2
Belgium. -- Administration. 2
Belgium. -- Colonies 2
Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Bible colleges 2
Bible. 2
Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
Catholic Church. 2
Chicago (Ill.) 2
Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Christian education -- Kenya. 2
Christian education -- United States. 2
Christian education, Outdoor. 2
Church and social problems -- United States. 2
Church and social problems. 2
Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Church work with children. 2
Church work with youth. 2
City missions. 2
College students -- Religious life. 2
College students. 2
Education 2
Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 2
Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
Evangelistic work -- New Jersey. 2
Fund raising. 2
Independent churches. 2
Kikuyu (African people) 2
Masai (African people) 2
Medical care 2
Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
Missions to Muslims. 2
Missions. 2
Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Social change. 2
Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Women in church work -- United States. 2
Women in church work. 2
World War, 1914-1918. 2
Worship. 2
Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
African Americans -- Missions. 1
African Americans -- Religious life. 1
African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
Animism -- Central African Republic. 1
Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Animism -- Tanzania. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- New Jersey. 1
Bible colleges -- Tanzania. 1
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Boarding schools. 1
Bunia (Congo) 1
Camden (N.J.) 1
Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 1
Catholic Church -- Missions -- Tanzania. 1
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