Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
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 230 Oral History Interview with John A. Gration
Collection
Identifier: CN 230
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John Alexander Gration (1926-2012). Topics discussed include: Gration's Christian activities in high school and the U.S. Navy, education at Moody Bible Institute, Gordon College, and Wheaton College; his spiritual growth and call to become a missionary, his marriage, and his first impressions of and missionary experiences with Africa Inland mission in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Christianity and culture, animism, superstition, AIM...
Dates:
Created: 1982
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 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 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
Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Animism. 7
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Missions -- Kenya. 7
- Belgium. 6
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Christian education. 6
- Education 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Tribes. 6
- Belgium. -- Colonies 5
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Christian education -- Kenya. 4
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Bible. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church discipline. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Medical care 3
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions -- Zaire. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Nationalism. 3
- Polygamy. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Animism -- Zaire. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and state -- Kenya. 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with military personnel. 2
- Church work with youth -- United States. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Education -- Zaire. 2
- Family. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Kenya 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Nationalism -- Zaire. 2
- Polygamy -- Zaire. 2
- Superstition -- Zaire. 2
- Superstition. 2
- Swahili language. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Tribes -- Kenya. 2
- Tribes -- Zaire. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
- Animism -- Central African Republic. 1
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Bible colleges. 1 ∧ less
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