Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 14 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 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 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 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 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
Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013
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
- Missionaries. 13
- Christian education. 10
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Children of missionaries. 8
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Missions -- Kenya. 8
- Animism. 7
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Belgium. 5
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 5
- Bible colleges 5
- Christian education -- Kenya. 5
- Christian leadership. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 5
- Education 5
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 5
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 5
- Polygamy. 5
- Belgium. -- Colonies 4
- Bible. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Great Britain 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missionaries -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Missions -- Zaire. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church discipline. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- College students. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 3
- Family. 3
- Masai (African people) 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions -- Tanzania. 3
- Missions. 3
- Nationalism. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Swahili language. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Tribes -- Kenya. 3
- Animism -- Zaire. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian education -- Tanzania. 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Kenya. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with military personnel. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Church work with youth -- United States. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- Communism. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Education -- Zaire. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Evangelistic work -- New Jersey. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Tanzania. 2 ∧ less
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