Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 12 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 452 Papers of Elwood L. Davis
Collection
Identifier: CN 452
Scope and Contents
Diaries, photographs, and miscellaneous materials about Elwood L. Davis and his medical missionary work in Kenya for the Africa Inland Mission (AIM). Topics covered include brief descriptions of daily life in Africa, of his army medical service during World War I, places visited, colleagues entertained, services held, birth of his sons, death of his wife, etc.; diaries cover, with a few gaps, the years 1902 until his death in 1961; includes information on his father, various licenses and...
Dates:
Created: 1882-1961
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 478 Oral History Interviews with Paul A. Buyse
Collection
Identifier: CN 478
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Adrian Buyse (1926-2017), Africa Inland Mission worker in the Belgian Congo/Zaire. Topics covered include Buyse's childhood and youth as the son of AIM missionary parents in the Congo; education at Rethy Academy, Northwestern Schools, and Moody Bible Institute; work with North Arkansas Gospel Mission, spiritual hardships of being a missionary; his work in the Congo among pygmies; development of the Africa Inland Church in the Congo, transition from...
Dates:
Created: 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 509 Oral History Interview with Evelyn M. Camp
Collection
Identifier: CN 509
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Evelyn Mildred Camp (1915-1999), missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1944 to 1961. Topics discussed include Camp's experience as a child of missionaries, her missionary work in schools for boys and girls at Oicha and Blukwa AIM stations, her family's economic hardships, furloughs, the social life of missionary children, education at Rethy Academy, call to missionary work, training at...
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
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 12
Identifier: 2003-009
Dates:
1944-1998
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Filtered By
- Subject: Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. X
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 11
- Unprocessed Material 1
- Subject
- Missionaries. 10
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Christian education. 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Animism. 4
- Bible colleges 4
- Church and state. 4
- Family. 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Missions -- Kenya. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Missions. 4
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Masai (African people) 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Uganda. 3
- Missions -- Zaire. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Worship -- Congo. 3
- Worship. 3
- AIDS (Disease) 2
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 2
- Baptism. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Children. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian education -- Tanzania. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Congo 2
- Congo, -- History, 2
- Congo, -- History, -- 1908-1960. 2
- Congo, -- Social life and customs. 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
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Tanzania. 2
- Kenya 2
- Kenya -- Description and travel. 2
- Kijabe (Kenya) 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Retirement. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Sudan. 2
- Missions -- Tanzania. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Race relations. 2
- Tanzania 2
- Tanzania -- Description and travel. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes. 2 ∧ less
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