ByRob
El Couffa was a Prayer Newsletter of the Algiers Mission Band, published between 1912 and 1917. These newsletters were stapled and sewn together and contain written content and paintings by Lilias Trotter [1853-1928], who founded the Mission. A small number of these newsletters were produced and then sent out to a circuit of supporters, who…
ByRob
The journal of the Algiers Mission Band is a unique record of missionary work in a majority muslim country in the early 20th Century. The journals were written by the Mission’s founder, I. Lilias Trotter, as a means of informing her supporters (mainly in the United Kingdom) using an account of the progress of the…
ByRob
I am pleased to announce that the quarterly magazine of the Algiers Mission Band, A Thirsty Land, is now available online for the first time. The Algiers Mission Band, founded by Lilias Trotter in 1888. The magazine ran from 1927 until the agency joined with the North Africa Mission (currently AWM-Pioneers) in 1964. A Thirsty…
ByRob
Today’s free book is a rare work written for Muslim evangelism by one of the founders of the Algiers Mission Band, Lilias Trotter. My thanks to AWM Pioneers for the loan of this booklet. S.S. “China”, October 15th, 1926. To Those who have lived many years in the Near East Miss Lilias Trotter has long…