Unfortunately, tragedy struck when Scott fell ill and died of malaria, complicated by blackwater fever in December 1896. Three others were opened in quick succession at Sakai, Kilungu and Kangundo. After spending 17 days there, the party travelled inland by caravan to Nzawi in Ukambani where they established the first mission station. The first mission party of AIM consisted of Scott, his sister Margaret, Frederick W Kriegler (GMS) and five others, arriving in Mombasa in October 1895. Unable to interest any churches (including his own), Scott managed to convince some friends in Philadelphia and together formed the Philadelphia Missionary Council in 1895 headed by Rev Charles Hurlburt. It was while recuperating that he developed the idea of establishing missions stretching from the southeast coast of Africa to the interior’s Lake Chad. The African Inland Mission (AIM) traces its roots to the work of Peter Cameron Scott (1867-1896), a Scottish-American missionary who served two years in the Congo before medical care forced him back to Britain in 1892.
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