Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 8 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 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 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
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
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Christian education. 7
- Church and state. 6
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Missions -- Educational 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
- Fund raising. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Religious institutions. 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
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Education 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
- Medical care 3
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa, East. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Social change. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 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 social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Communism. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Togo 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Kenya 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Asia. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions -- Europe. 2
- Missions -- North America. 2
- Missions -- Oceania. 2
- Missions -- South America. 2
- Missions -- Tanzania. 2
- Missions -- Uganda. 2
- Missions -- Zaire. 2
- Missions. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Tribes. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1 ∧ less
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