Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 11 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 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 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 690: Oral History Interviews with Elias Kiptoo Ng’etich
Collection
Identifier: CN 690
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elias Ng’etich, in which he describes his family background, the African Inland Church (AIC) he grew up in, his spiritual development and conversion, worship and Christian life in the church in which he grew up, youth evangelism activities, his first days at Scott Theological College, pastor of the AIC church in Chebaiyowo, Kenya; Moi University; typical day as a pastor, creation of the Scott satellite campus in Eldoret and teaching there; relations between...
Dates:
2012
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
- Indigenous church administration 10
- Christian education. 9
- Evangelistic work. 9
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
- Missionaries. 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Missions -- Kenya. 7
- Christian education -- Kenya. 6
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Animism. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Belgium. 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Education 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Medical care 3
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Polygamy. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Bible. 2
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian education -- Tanzania. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Kenya. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Education -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Tanzania. 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Masai (African people) 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missions -- Africa, East. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Refugees 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2 ∧ less
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