Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 084 Papers of Vera E. Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 084
Scope and Contents
Correspondence describing Vera Thiessen's experiences and work as a medical missionary for the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to her family, which included her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Thiessen, her sisters Carol and Lois, and her brother Jack. A few letters were written to friends as general prayer letters. The time period covered by the letters is 1946 to 1976. Topics discussed include her experiences as a missionary with Africa Inland Mission, Africa...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1976
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 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 451 Papers of Bernard L. J. Litchman
Collection
Identifier: CN 451
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of diaries, negatives, photographs, and slides created by Bernard "Jack" Litchman about his work with Africa Inland Mission in the former Belgian Congo (now Zaire), mostly among the Balendu people, in and around the Linga mission station, as well as involvement in setting up Sunday Schools, churches, itinerant preaching, and other mission activities as well as working as a health officer for the Belgian government.
Dates:
Created: 1917-1971
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 477 Papers of Stanley R. Kline
Collection
Identifier: CN 477
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stanley R. Kline and extensive photo albums, relating to Kline’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1940 to 1977. Topics covered in interview include: his family background in Philadelphia, conversion, Percy Crawford's influence, evangelism in Philadelphia, rescue mission work, call to missions, his wife Carmel Anthony, his evangelism and educational work in the Congo between 1940 and...
Dates:
Created: 1930-1999
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 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 513 Oral History Interview with John R. Stauffacher
Collection
Identifier: CN 513
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which John Raymond Stauffacher in which he describes his childhood in Kenya, missionary parents John and Florence Stauffacher, his brother Claudon, missions in Kenya, the Masai people, Mrs. Westervelt and the Westervelt Home, studying and teaching at Rift Valley Academy, Charles Hurlburt, the Mau Mau Rebellion, Great Britain's colonial administration of Kenya, Christian life, conversion, missionary call, language learning and missionary work with Africa Inland...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 530 Oral History Interview with Ruby B. Maynard
Collection
Identifier: CN 530
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruby Beatrice (Arnold) Maynard (1912-1998), medical missionary in Tanzania from 1938-1984 with Africa Inland Mission. Topics discussed include Maynard's childhood; conversion; education at Moody Bible Institute; managing the hospital and leprosarium in Tanzania; the development of the African Inland Church in Tanzania; Dr. Nina Maynard's work at the Kolo Ndoto hospital; Ruby Maynard's marriage to station supervisor, William Maynard; challenges of missionary life;...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Collection 607 Oral History Interviews with Herbert and Frieda Atkinson
Collection
Identifier: CN 607
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interviews with Dr. Herbert Andrew Atkinson (1931-2009) and his wife, Frieda Elizabeth (Paul) Atkinson (1930- ), missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo. Dr. Atkinson discusses his family background, conversion, Wheaton College, influence of his roommate Bill Kornfield and Dr. V. Raymond Edman, God's provision for his entering medical school, ministry in Oicha, obstacles in communication with the Congolese, lessons learned on the mission field. Frieda...
Dates:
Created: 1988
James and Lila Propst photographs.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2005-066
Dates:
1960-1969
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
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- Subject: Missions, Medical. X
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- Type
- Collection 13
- Unprocessed Material 1
- Subject
- Missionaries. 10
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 9
- Missions -- Educational work. 9
- Conversion. 8
- Medical care 8
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missions -- Finance. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missions -- Kenya. 5
- Missions. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Animism. 4
- Belgium. 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Education 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions, Medical -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Tribes. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children. 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Zaire. 3
- Pygmies. 3
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- World War, 1914-1918. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Baptism. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- City missions. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Great Britain -- Administration. 2
- Kenya 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Zaire. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa, East. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Prayer. 2
- Radio in religion. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Social change. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Worship. 2
- Youth -- Belgium 2
- Youth -- Belgium -- Administration. 2
- Youth -- Belgium -- Colonies 2
- Youth -- Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Ababua (African people) 1
- Africa, East. 1 ∧ less
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