Friends Foreign Mission Audio Visual Collection: Africa. 1901-1976

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Friends Foreign Mission Audio Visual Collection: Africa., 1901-1976

Friends Foreign Mission Audio Visual Collection: Africa. 1901-1976

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The Friends Africa Industrial Mission began in 1903 in Kaimosi, now a town in Western Kenya. In the book Foreign mission work of American Friends; a brief history of their work from the beginning to the year 1912, by the American Friends Board of Foreign Missions, the mission was described as follows: The "Primary Object of the Friends' Africa Industrial Mission," as officially recorded in the outset and ever since emphasized by both the Board and the missionaries, "is the evangelization of the heathen. The industrial feature is introduced into the work for the purpose of exerting a continuous Christian influence on the natives employed, in the hope of obtaining the following results, viz. : to teach them habits of industry and ultimately to establish a self-supporting native Christian church." (p. 77) Although most of the collection pertains to the F.A.I.M., EFC-ER missionary work continues in Africa, and some materials related to more recent missionary activity. The collection contains .13 cubic feet of slides, scripts, and audio cassettes.

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