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Africa Inland Mission.

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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Africa Inland Mission (AIM) Africa Training Fund materials.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-033
Dates: 2000-2018

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 422 Papers of Laura Neva Collins

 Collection
Identifier: CN 422
Scope and Contents Glass negatives, negatives, and photographs relating to the ministry of Laura Neva Collins, missionary to Kenya with Africa Inland Mission from 1907-1952. Shots include missionaries, Africans, indigenous artifacts, church architecture, etc., relating to mission work in Africa.This collection originally consisted of ninety-seven black and white glass negatives of missionary activities in Africa before 1914. There are two series of glass negatives. The first series may have taken...
Dates: Created: 1899-1914

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 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 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

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

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 611 Oral History Interview with Mary Ann Miller

 Collection
Identifier: CN 611
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Mary Ann (Shook) Miller a missionary with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) to the Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and the Central African Republic. Topics discussed include her family background; conversion to Christianity; education at Wheaton College; InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Urbana Conference; call to the mission field; history of AIM; preparation for the mission field; language training; descriptions of her first mission station; traditional...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 689 Papers of Stephen D. Morad

 Collection
Identifier: CN 689
Scope and Contents Typed manuscript of an unpublished history of the Africa Inland Church (AIC) of Kenya written by Stephen D. Morad and Shelly Arensen and a report on the results a 1993-1995 survey of the AIC.[Note: In the Scope & Content section, the notation “folder 2-5" means “Box 2, Folder 5"]Date Range: circa 1995-1996Volume: .25 cubic feet, 1 Box...
Dates: Created: 1995-1996

Herbert Downing home movies.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2018-016
Dates: 1937-1953

Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013

James and Lila Propst photographs.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2005-066
Dates: 1960-1969

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

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  • Subject: Missions -- Educational work. X

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 18
Unprocessed Material 3
 
Subject
Missionaries. 14
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
Animism. 11
Indigenous church administration 11
Children of missionaries. 10
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Conversion. 10
Evangelistic work. 10
Language in missionary work. 9
Missions -- Kenya. 9
Missions, Medical. 9
Christian education. 8
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 8
Missionaries -- Training of. 8
Christianity and culture. 7
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 7
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 7
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 7
Tribes. 7
Belgium. 6
Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 6
Church and state. 6
Education 6
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
Missions -- Finance. 6
Missions -- Zaire. 6
Women 6
Women -- Religious life. 6
Women missionaries. 6
Belgium. -- Colonies 5
Bible. 5
Catholic Church -- Missions. 5
Church discipline. 5
Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
Baptism. 4
Bible -- Translating. 4
Catholic Church. 4
Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
Christian education -- Kenya. 4
Evangelicalism. 4
Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 4
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
Kikuyu (African people) 4
Marriage. 4
Medical care 4
Missionaries -- United States. 4
Missions -- Central African Republic. 4
Missions. 4
Polygamy. 4
World War, 1914-1918. 4
World War, 1939-1945. 4
Animism -- Zaire. 3
Bible colleges 3
Boarding schools. 3
Christian life. 3
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Church work with children. 3
Church work with youth. 3
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 3
Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Education -- Zaire. 3
Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 3
Fund raising. 3
Great Britain 3
Kenya 3
Kijabe (Kenya) 3
Masai (African people) 3
Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Missions -- Africa. 3
Nationalism. 3
Religious institutions. 3
Rural missions. 3
Social change. 3
Swahili language. 3
Theological seminaries. 3
Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Worship. 3
Zande (African people) 3
Africa. -- Description and travel. 2
Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Belgium. -- Administration. 2
Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Chicago (Ill.) 2
Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
Children. 2
Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
Christian education -- Tanzania. 2
Christian leadership. 2
Christian literature. 2
Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
Church and social problems. 2
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