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Established in 1895, Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is a Christian mission sending agency focused on Africa. Their stated mission is to see "Christ-centered churches established among all African peoples." [1] AIM established the Kapsowar Hospital in 1933. It developed into the Africa Inland Church (AIC), based in Kenya.
The mission almost dissolved in the next year when most of the workers either died or resigned, but Peter Cameron Scott's vision of the network of mission stations extending to the centre of Africa has ultimately been fulfilled with churches established throughout East Africa, and in most other countries of the continent.
The Africa Inland Mission was founded in Kenya in 1885 and later moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Africa Inland Mission started working in Sudan in 1949. [1]In good understanding with the Anglican Church in Sudan the church agreed to take up responsibility for the whole of eastern Equatoria.
Rift Valley Academy (RVA) is a Christian boarding school located in Kijabe, Kenya run by the Protestant African Inland Mission.It was founded in 1906 by Charles Hurlburt.. It was ranked second out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, Internet and news visibility.
As a historical destination, it is now known as the origin of AIC Church in Kenya. In 1895, Mr. Peter Cameron Scott, a Scottish missionary sent from America passed here and ventured further interior to Nzaui where he set up the first Africa inland Mission in Kalamba with his sister Margret and six others. [1]
A third attempt in 1902 succeeded, which finally established a base 500 miles inland in Patigi, Nigeria. In 1906, the mission was once renamed "Sudan Interior Mission." [5] After the initial base was set up, the mission branched out into other countries in West Africa, and then in the 1920s, to East Africa.
Margaret Nicholl Laird (31 July 1897 – June 1983) was an American missionary of the Baptist Mid-Missions who worked in the French colony of Ubangi-Shari and independent Central African Republic (CAR) from 1922 until the 1960s.
It was established by the Africa Inland Mission in 1962 as Scott Theological College (STC), and named after AIM's founder, Peter Cameron Scott. Scott received its university charter in 1997, adopting its present name in 2012. [1] [3] [4]