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 would read them and then pass them on to the next person on the mailing list.
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…
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
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
Isabella Lilias Trotter [1853-1928] was a noted watercolour artist, who having attended several of the Keswick Conventions, became a missionary in North Africa. She was one of the founder members of the Algier Mission Band, which, as the Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions notes, “…became part of the North Africa Mission, which continues to the…
ByRob
Last year I was approached by the Arab World Ministry of Pioneers for help in digitising the journal of the North Africa Mission for the first time. This journal dates back to the 1890s and is a unique record of the work of Christian missionaries across North Africa. Among the contributors are a number that…
ByRob
This little book contains twelve letters about missionary work in “Barbary” – modern day Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. This copy originally formed part of the North Africa Mission library in Rabat. Yorkshire-born Christine Tinling [1867-1943] was a missionary with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was the author of numerous books on missions and also…