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 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 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 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
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
Moody Church Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 330
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents...
Dates:
Created: 1864-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
/
Moody Church Records
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries. 10
- Evangelistic work. 9
- Christian education. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Animism. 7
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Belgium. 6
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Education 6
- Belgium. -- Colonies 5
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Church discipline. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Missions -- Kenya. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Christian education -- Kenya. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Missionaries -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Missions -- Zaire. 4
- Polygamy. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Bible colleges 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church work with youth. 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Education -- Zaire. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Medical care 3
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Nationalism. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Swahili language. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 2
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Animism -- Zaire. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
- Bible. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Chicago (Ill.) 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian education -- Tanzania. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 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 work with children. 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
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Tanzania. 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Missionaries -- Retirement. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa, East. 2 ∧ less
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