Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 14 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 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 291 Papers of Ralph T. Davis
Collection
Identifier: CN 291
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, clippings, hymns, poems, photographs relating to the ministry of Ralph T. Davis, as a missionary and executive leader of African Inland Mission. The materials in this collection consist primarily of notebooks apparently used by Davis for sermon materials or in his administrative capacities for AIM. They include: notes on books of the Old and New Testaments; sermon outlines and notes; church history; notes on geographical areas, countries and peoples; hymns and poems; other...
Dates:
Created: 1935-1962
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 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 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 649 Records of SIM International
Collection
Identifier: CN 649
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of official documents, publications, and private papers relating to the work of the Sudan Interior Mission in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Benin, Niger, Upper Volta, and Ivory Coast. This collection consist of a copy negative of microfilm of the records of Sudan Interior Mission. The film was given to the BGC Archives by the SIM International Archives to make these resources for the history of the church in Africa more widely available. The documents are solely from Sudan Interior...
Dates:
Created: 1887-1987
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
International Christian Broadcasters Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 086
Brief Description
The collection contains correspondence, audiotapes, photographs, financial reports, slides, blueprints, and memos related to the activities of International Christian Broadcasting's (originally the World Conference on Mission Radio) work to promote interest in Christian broadcasting and to support and encourage Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasters, largely engaged in evangelism. Materials include data on the International Communications Congress in Tokyo (1970), Muslim...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1978; Other: Majority of material found within 1954-1978
Jenny Owen Mudge missionary scrapbook.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2008-065
Dates:
1903-1906
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John Gration files on Africa and missions.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1996-002
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John Gration oral history interviews.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1996-017
Dates:
1996
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 -- Africa. X
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- Type
- Collection 11
- Unprocessed Material 3
- Subject
- Missions -- Africa. 11
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Missions -- Kenya. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missions -- Africa, East. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Missionaries -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Belgium. 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Bible. 3
- Christian education -- Kenya. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- Asia. 3
- Missions -- Europe. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Missions. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Chicago (Ill.) 2
- Children. 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- Kenya. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
- Evangelistic work -- Japan. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Togo 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Middle East. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- North America. 2
- Missions -- Oceania. 2
- Missions -- South America. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions -- Sudan. 2
- Missions -- Tanzania. 2
- Missions -- Zaire. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- New York World's Fair (1964-1965) 2
- Refugees 2
- Religion, Primitive 2
- Sermons, American. 2
- Social change. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Worship. 2
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