Africa Inland Church.
Organization
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Addison C. Tanner Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 613
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Addison Carl Tanner (1932-2012) a missionary with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in Tanzania and publisher of Christian literature. Tanner describes his mission work, the Tanzanian people, Christianity and animism, political situation in Tanzania, role of tribal chiefs, his conversion and call to mission work, changes in the Tanzanian church, and role of women in the African Inland Church. The time period covered in the interview is 1932 to 1988.Addison...
Dates:
Created: 1988
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
Arthur and Margaret Barnett Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 630
Scope and Contents
Several recordings of oral history interviews with the Barnetts, as well as a box of miscellaneous papers. Materials describe Arthur’s growing up in Africa with missionary parents, Arthur and Margret’s courtship and marriage, joining Africa Inland Mission, the sinking of the Zamzam as the ship was sailing to Africa and their experiences as internees, the couple’s work as AIM missionaries in Tanzania, the Belgian Congo, and Kenya, and medical problems and care in Africa.
Dates:
1941, 2003-2006
Barbara L. Collins Oral History Interviews
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
Cindy Judge Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 656
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Cynthia L. Judge, a volunteer leader in the Short-Term Missions movement (STM). Topics discussed: Judge’s childhood in Rockford, Illinois; development of her Christian faith; attendance at Moody Bible Institute; Chicago in 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King; work as a staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ in Tennessee and West Virginia; marriage to James Judge; short-term mission trips to Ecuador and Kenya; Africa Inland Mission and Africa...
Dates:
2010
David Kirwa Tarus Oral History Interviews
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 Barack Obama. The interview covers the time period 1979-2008....
Dates:
2008
Downing Family papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 2017-036
Dates:
1876-2015
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elizabeth C. Stough Oral History Interviews
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
Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2022-024
Dates:
1930-1972
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Erik S. Barnett Oral History Interviews
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
Herbert Downing home movies.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2018-016
Dates:
1937-1953
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
John A. Allen photo album.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2018-021
Dates:
1948-1955
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Kioko Mwangangi Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 682
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Kioko Mwangani in which he describes about his work as an evangelist and pastor of the Africa Inland Church (AIC) in Kenya. Topics include his family background; early education, involvement with the ministry of DIGUNA and the movement’s leaders Vic Paul and David Rempel; higher education at Scott Theological College and Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST), his pastorates in Rural area; influence on his faith of marriage and fatherhood; the...
Dates:
2014
Papers of Richard J. Gehman, 1975-1985, 2022
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 2023-004
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1975 - 2022
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Paul A. Buyse Oral History Interviews
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
Paul P. Stough Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Paul P. Stough Papers
Richard Gehman papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 35
Identifier: 2016-032
Dates:
1898-2005
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Richard Gehman papers and materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 2019-019
Dates:
1903-2019
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Richard Gehman photographs and papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 2021-018
Dates:
1984-2021
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruby B. Maynard Oral History Interview
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
Scott J. Harbert Oral History Interviews
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
Stanley R. Kline Papers
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
Stephen D. Morad Papers
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
Vera E. Thiessen Papers
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
William A. Stier Oral History Interviews
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
William J. Barnett Papers
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
Women of the Good News AIM Congo records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2022-005
Dates:
1981-2021.
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 18
- Unprocessed Material 10
- Subject
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
- Missions -- Kenya. 12
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 9
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 9
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Conversion -- Christianity. 7
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 6
- Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa. 5
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missions -- Tanzania. 5
- Missions, Medical -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Christian leadership. 4
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Marriage. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Africa. 4
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni and alumnae. 4
- Theological seminaries -- Kenya. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian education -- Kenya. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and state -- Kenya. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Kenya. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Kamba (African people) 3
- Kenya -- Religion. 3
- Masai (African people) 3
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Africa, East. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Animism -- Tanzania. 2
- Baptism. 2
- Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration. 2
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Kenya. 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Tanzania. 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church growth -- Tanzania. 2
- Clergy -- Training of -- Kenya. 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social life and customs. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 2
- Faith movement (Hagin) 2
- Female circumcision -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa, East -- Administration. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Independent churches -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Tanzania. 2
- Kijabe (Kenya) 2
- Kikuyu (African people) 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Maasai (African people) 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions -- Comoros. 2
- Missions -- Educational work -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Seychelles. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Muslims -- Kenya. 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) 2
- Pentecostalism -- Kenya. 2
- Poverty. 2
- Public worship -- Christianity. 2
- Pygmies. 2
- Religious institutions -- Kenya. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Revivals -- Africa, East. 2
- Sex role -- Kenya. 2
- Short-term missions. 2
- Social change. 2 ∧ less
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