Africa Inland Church
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| Founded | 1895 |
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| Founder | Peter Cameron Scott |
| Type | Evangelical Missions Agency |
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Area served
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13+ African Nations |
| Website | AIM International site, AIM Canada Site,AIM USA Site, AIM Europe Site |
Established in 1895, Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is a nondenominational Christian mission organisation focusing on Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean. Their stated mission is to see "Christ-centered churches established among all African peoples." [1] AIM established the Kapsowar Hospital in 1933.
Africa Inland Mission had its beginning in the work of Peter Cameron Scott (1867–1896), a Scottish-American missionary who served two years in the Congo before being forced to seek medical care in Britain in 1892 because of a near-fatal illness. While recuperating, he developed his idea of establishing a network of mission stations which would stretch from the southeast coast of Africa to the interior's Lake Chad. He was unable to interest any churches in the idea (including his own), but managed to captivate several friends in Philadelphia. In 1895 they formed the Philadelphia Missionary Council.
More important than specialized training, AIM found acceptance among tribal people based on Christian commitment and moral standing. The Council was headed by Rev. Charles Hurlburt, president of the Pennsylvania Bible Institute, the organisation which provided most of the mission's workers in its very early years.
On August 17, 1895, AIM's first mission party set off. The group consisted of Scott, his sister Margaret, and six others. They arrived off the east African coast in October, and in little over a year they established a network of mission stations which would eventually stretch from the southeast coast of the continent to the interior's Lake Chad.
The mission had four stations — at Nzaui, Sakai (Kenya), Kilungu, and Kangundo,Manyatta, all in Kenya. Additional workers arrived from Canada and the United States and the small group expanded to fifteen.
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