Administrative Files
Scope and Contents
Office files of MAF, a mission agency that provided transportation, radio contact and other support to missions working in remote areas, as well as some services to non-mission agencies. Materials, including correspondence, minutes, reports, prayer letters, personnel files, and budgets, that document the administration and activities of MAF, especially the regional offices in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the Development division (extensive individual prayer letters from entire mission staff), the Research and Planning division, Personnel division, and the technical requirements of mission aviation. These documents reflect its origins and early history as CAMF, operation, flight service, policies, personnel management and pilot training, relations with governments and other organizations, outreach to a wide financial support base, stewardship of finances, and publications to maintain communication with financial and prayer. Other topics documented throughout the collection include missionaries' adjustment to foreign climates and cultures; exacting technical aspects of aviation, especially concerned with small aircraft; evaluation of aviation and radio as mission tools; political and cultural affairs of Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia; and inter-mission relations and cooperation; sister movements in other countries (particularly British Missionary Aviation Fellowship), production of publications, missionary adjustment to culture, technical aspects of aviation, political and cultural affairs of Africa (particularly Zaire), South America and Southeast Asia, relations with the Catholic Church in predominantly Catholic countries, missions in much of the developing world, inter-mission relations and cooperation, the murder of missionaries by Huaorani Indians in Ecuador in the "Auca Incident," and other mission-related topics. Persons prominently featured include: James Truxton, Charles Mellis, Grady Parrot, martyr Nate Saint (and his fellow martyrs and their families), Charles Bennett, Max Meyers.
Dates
- Created: 1944-2006
Conditions Governing Access
Selected files are closed to researcher use until the expiration date below without the written permission from the President of Mission Aviation Fellowship:
Box-Folder # Expiration date
Several files (folders 148-1,6,8,14,19) for MAF staff contained documents with personal identifying information. These documents were replaced with copies on which all such information is blacked out for one hundred years from the birth year of the person whose form was removed:
Box-Folder # Date originals restored
Permission requests should be directed to:
Forms are available from the staff in the Reading Room or at archives@wheaton.edu
Extent
From the Collection: 135.0 Linear Feet (204 Boxes (62 RC, 141 DC, 1 ODC), Audio Tapes, Films, Negatives, Oversize Material, Photo Album, Photographs)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Mission Aviation Fellowship. (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Evangelism & Missions Archives Repository