Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 26 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 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1997
Collection 251 Oral History Interview with Herbert Downing
Collection
Identifier: CN 251
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Herbert Downing (1905-1986) in which he describes his childhood as a child of missionaries in Kenya, attending Rift Valley Academy in Kenya, a visit of Theodore Roosevelt to the Academy, his father's work as pastor and administrator, Africa Inland Mission's policy on the education of missionary children, and Downing's own work as an educator at Rift Valley Academy. The time period covered by the interview is 1905-1983Herbert Downing was intereviewed by...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 297 Papers of Kenneth L. Shingledecker
Collection
Identifier: CN 297
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth L. Shingledecker in which he describes his work with college students in Student Training in Missions, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, planning Urbana '79 student missions convention, missionary work in Kenya for Daystar Communications, and the development of Christian leadership in the church in Kenya. The collection also includes a folder of prayer letters, ranging from 1985-1990.Topics covered in the oral history interview include...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1990
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 447 Oral History Interview with Scott J. Harbert
Collection
Identifier: CN 447
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Scott Jeffrey Harbert in which he discusses his family, growing up, meeting his father as an adult, influences on his childhood and adolescence, contacts with Shintoism in Japan, problem with marijuana, conversion to Christianity and influence of Richard Foster, college education and participation in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, work as a staff member at the IVCF headquarters, marriage to Barbara Gration, the development of Concerts of Prayer, short-term...
Dates:
Created: 1992
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 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 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
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 641 Oral History Interviews with David Kirwa Tarus
Collection
Identifier: CN 641
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Kirwa Tarus, a Kenyan pastor and theologian. Tarus describes the ministry of his parents; growing up in Kenya; his conversion; spiritual development; Scott Theological College; the Africa Inland Church in Kenya; Scott’s satellite campus in Eldoret; the general condition of Christianity in Kenya; his impressions of the United States and Wheaton Graduate School; the 2008 election of Barak Obama. The interview covers the time period 1979-2008.David...
Dates:
2008
Downing Family papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 2017-036
Dates:
1876-2015
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elizabeth Stephenson letters.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2009-019
Dates:
1923-1934
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
James and Lila Propst photographs.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2005-066
Dates:
1960-1969
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Jenny Owen Mudge missionary scrapbook.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2008-065
Dates:
1903-1906
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John A. Allen photo album.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2018-021
Dates:
1948-1955
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
Kenya Bretta Johnson papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2004-069
Dates:
1929-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Paul Stough materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2014-038
Dates:
1901-1991
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert and Sally Olsen papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2001-047
Dates:
1964-1993
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Thomas Watkin Gerrard Collins papers
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1995-107
Dates:
1932-1972
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Filtered By
- Subject: Missions -- Kenya. X
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 15
- Unprocessed Material 11
- Subject
- Missionaries. 11
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 10
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Evangelistic work. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Missions -- Educational work. 9
- Children of missionaries. 8
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 8
- Christian education. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Animism. 6
- Christian education -- Kenya. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Kenya 6
- Bible. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Great Britain 5
- Missions -- Africa. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Bible -- Translating. 4
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Family. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Kenya -- Religion. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions. 4
- Tribes -- Kenya. 4
- Belgium. 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 3
- Church and state -- Kenya. 3
- College students. 3
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 3
- Education 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Kenya -- Description and travel. 3
- Kijabe (Kenya) 3
- Kikuyu (African people) 3
- Masai (African people) 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa, East. 3
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 3
- Missions -- Tanzania. 3
- Missions -- Zaire. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Animism -- Kenya. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelicalism -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 2
- Independent churches -- Kenya. 2
- Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Maasai (African people) 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2 ∧ less
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