One day in the mid-1890s in Westminster Abbey, London, crowds of visitors were admiring this beautiful place of worship. Among them was a pale young man called Peter Scott who was recovering from an illness he had contracted on a recent trip to Africa. Suddenly, his eyes caught the name David Livingston cut in a slab on the floor. Under it, he deciphered the words, ‘Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring.’ Oblivious of the crowds, he knelt on the floor and prayed for Africa, wondering again what God might require of him.
What happened next is described in detail in Dick Anderson’s history of AIM, ‘We felt like Grasshoppers’. In the book, Anderson describes how on that day Peter Scott felt God show him a vision of a line of mission stations from East Africa to the Sahara. A few years later, aged just 29, Peter died in East Africa while seeking to make that vision a reality. Before he died, Peter and a group of missionary enthusiasts had founded Africa Inland Mission in 1895.
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