About AIM

Our Vision Is To Reach Africa's Unreached For Christ

We partner with Asia-Pacific churches to send individuals and teams on short and long term placements among Africa’s unreached people groups.

 Today, someone in an African community is waiting to hear about Jesus.

God is raising up the next generation of missionaries from the Asia-Pacific to help share the good news with them.

You can play a part in finding, equipping and sending those God is calling.

Together, we can help get the gospel to Africa’s unreached.

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Our Story

In 1895, Peter Cameron Scott had a vision for Christian mission in Africa: to reach the continent’s unreached peoples with the gospel.

His bold plan was to establish a series of mission stations, reaching from the east coast of the continent to the interior’s Lake Chad. His vision set the course for AIM for the next 130 years – and counting!

In 1908 the first Australian member of the Africa Inland Mission arrived in Kenya. In 1916 the Australian Council of AIM was organised and a short time later a sending office in Sydney was extablished.  

Over the years many missionaries from Australia, New Zealand and Asia have played an important role in AIM in taking the gospel to Africa.

Today AIM is the largest interdenominational mission agency focused exclusively on working with Africans.

We serve in over 20 African nations. Our outreach also extends to Africans living globally, outside the African continent.  

Our missionaries serve in teams within African communities.

Some are involved in direct gospel work across the continent and globally. Some serve in creative access locations, where their professional skills give them access to communities where missionaries are not officially welcome. 

Wherever we serve, we follow Jesus’ example: to walk in humility, embrace learner attitudes, and live as belongers in our communities.All for the sake of the gospel, and the precious people God is calling into His kingdom.

We Value:

CHRIST-CENTREDNESS Compelled by Christ’s love (2 Cor 5:14), we love, pray for, and proclaim the Gospel to Africa’s unreached peoples. Our sufficiency, hope, and ministry flow from our relationship with Christ. We serve by His grace and strength and submit to His will. All other AIM values flow from this.
 
CHURCH CONNECTIONS We are sent by churches (Acts 13:1-3) and whenever possible, minister to and through churches. We serve, equip, and mobilise churches and believers from the global Church, and particularly from Africa, to join in the Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20).
 
CARING COMMUNITIES We foster caring communities among AIM members, ministry partners, and local believers. Loving, serving, encouraging, and admonishing each other, we grow in unity and demonstrate the truth of Jesus to the world (John 17:21-23).
 
INCARNATIONAL We follow the model and teaching of Jesus, who became incarnate among us (John 20:21, 1 Cor 9:19-22). In our varied ministries, we walk in humility, build relationships, embrace learner attitudes, learn languages and cultures, and strive to live as belongers in our communities.
 
INTERCULTURALISM We seek to be an intercultural organisation, where members and leaders from many cultures and nations feel welcome and actively participate. In this we celebrate the diversity, beauty, and glorious future of the Lord’s Church (Rev 5:9-10, Gal 3:28).
 
COLLABORATION We seek collaboration with like-minded churches, organisations, and individuals to see the name of Jesus worshipped by all African peoples, recognising and rejoicing that the Great Commission is for the whole Body of Christ and its different parts (Eph 4:15-16).
 
CREATIVITY We value continual learning, reflection, and creativity. The Lord does not change (Mal 3:6) but does new things (Is 43:19). Faithfulness to Him and His calling leads us to grow, adapt, and innovate to fit our changing ministry contexts.
Statement of Beliefs
Together, we can help reach Africa’s Unreached

For more than 130 years AIM has been finding, sending and supporting missionaries to serve among Africa’s unreached people groups.

Today that work continues, as God calls ordinary Christians to take their place in the Great Commission.

Every one of us has a part to play.

Because someone in Africa is still waiting to hear the Gospel.

And together, we can help reach them for Christ.

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