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 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 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 496 Papers of Mabel Buyse
Collection
Identifier: CN 496
Scope and Contents
Diaries, photographs, correspondence, and a scrapbook relating to Mabel Easton Buyse’s missionary service with Africa Inland Mission among the Dungu and Bafuka people groups in Belgian Congo (later, Zaire) before her marriage and later service in Aru and Kasengu, Belgian Congo; Goli, Uganda; and Opari, Sudan. Buyse was involved with setting up, operating, and teaching in schools in each place she worked. The scrapbook deals with the 1941 sinking of the Zamzam, in which her brother-in-law,...
Dates:
Created: 1908-1967
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. 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Missionaries. 7
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Animism. 3
- Bible colleges 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Kenya. 3
- Missions -- Uganda. 3
- Missions -- Zaire. 3
- Missions. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian education -- Tanzania. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Evangelistic work -- New Jersey. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 2
- Family. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Tanzania. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Masai (African people) 2
- Missionaries -- Retirement. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Sudan. 2
- Missions -- Tanzania. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Tanzania 2
- Tanzania -- Description and travel. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Africa. 1
- African American missionaries. 1
- African Americans -- Missions. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Animism -- Central African Republic. 1
- Animism -- Tanzania. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Inspiration. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible colleges -- New Jersey. 1
- Bible colleges -- Tanzania. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Bunia (Congo) 1
- Camden (N.J.) 1
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 1 ∧ less
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