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 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 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 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
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
- Christian education. 8
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missions -- Kenya. 7
- Church and state. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Animism. 4
- Belgium. 4
- Bible. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Christian education -- Kenya. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Education 4
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 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 -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Missions. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Kenya. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Family. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Prisoners 2
- Racism. 2
- Refugees 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Tribes -- Kenya. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
- African Americans -- Missions. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Animism -- Central African Republic. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1 ∧ less
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