Africa Inland Mission
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Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is a nondenominational Christian mission organisation focusing on Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean. AIM was founded in 1895 by Peter Cameron Scott together with Arthur Pierson and Charles Hurlburt, and as of 2004 has over 850 missionaries.
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[edit] History of AIM
In 1895, eight missionaries, headed by Scott, arrived in Mombasa, British East Africa (now Kenya). On 8 December 1896, Scott died of black water fever. In 1909, the first missionaries arrived in German East Africa (now Tanzania), followed by the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1912, Uganda in 1918, French Equatorial Africa (now Central African Republic) in 1924, and Sudan in 1949.
[edit] See also
- Rift Valley Academy
- AIM AIR, an aviation branch of Africa Inland Church (Homepage)
- China Inland Mission
[edit] References
- D. Anderson, We Felt Like Grasshoppers, Crossway Books, September 1994. ISBN 1-85684-106-5.
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