Africa Inland Mission.
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 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 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 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 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 481 Papers of Laura Barr
Collection
Identifier: CN 481
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, articles, clippings, oral history interviews, photograph albums, photographs, prayer letters, radio broadcasts, and slides, describing Laura Isabelle “Belle” Barr's missionary work among the Lugbara people of northeast Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and the West Nile District of Uganda with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1944-1981.
Dates:
Created: 1930-1993
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 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
Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013
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- Subject: Tribes. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Tribes. 12
- Missionaries. 11
- Evangelistic work. 10
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Animism. 8
- Conversion. 8
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Belgium. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 5
- Education 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Great Britain 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missions -- Kenya. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Polygamy. 5
- Belgium. -- Colonies 4
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Boarding schools. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Church discipline. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Missions -- Zaire. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Tribes -- Kenya. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible colleges 3
- Bible. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
- Kenya 3
- Missions. 3
- Swahili language. 3
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Tribes -- Zaire. 3
- Animism -- Kenya. 2
- Animism -- Zaire. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with military personnel. 2
- Church work with youth -- United States. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Education -- Zaire. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Great Britain -- Administration. 2
- Kenya -- Religion. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Masai (African people) 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- Tanzania. 2
- Nationalism -- Zaire. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Polygamy -- Zaire. 2
- Pygmies. 2
- Radio in religion. 2
- Revivals. 2
- Superstition -- Zaire. 2
- Superstition. 2
- Tanzania 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Animism -- Africa. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- Tanzania. 1
- Baptism. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1 ∧ less
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