Algiers Mission Band

El Couffa was a prayer newsletter of the Algiers Mission Band, founded by Lilias Trotter in 1888.

El Couffa has been digitised in partnership with AWM Pioneers. You can download all the available journal issues by right-clicking here and selecting "save as" to download a zip file. Please note that the file is around 85 MB. If you chose this option to download, please consider making a donation using the "Tip Jar" on the right.

March 1912 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Editorial
• Outpost duty
• "Then keep thee"
• Prayer answers
• Zoologial Back Numbers
• Wandering Thoughts
• The Letter "M". Chap. 2
• Old Tenes
• How we didn't keep Mouloud
• From the Desert
• The daughter of an outpost
• Where a Couffa went one Morning
• Recipes
• Station Reports

June 1912 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Editorial
• Cherry Blossom
• Shuahan the Palace
• Conference Dar Haama
• Prayer Answers
• Down South
• The Letter "M". Chap. 3
• Moslem Children
• The Posters
• Wandering Thoughts. Sequel
• From the Desert
• Some Famiy Portraits
• Out-Post Hints
• Station Reports

January 1913 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Editorial
• Worthy is the Lamb
• The Golden Stair
• Unto the End
• In the Dark
• The Letter "M". Chapter 5.
• Praise
• A Reminescene
• Wandering Toughts
• From the Desert
• The Sense of the Mediterranean
• The Tournes itself (concluded)

April 1913 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Editorial
• Questions from the East
• Pentecost
• Silver & Gold
• Praise Records
• From the Desert
• The Letter "M", Chap. 6
• You Can. I Cannot
• Still I wait
• The Livingstone Centenary
• An Out-post Reading Class
• All India Conference
• An Object Lesson
• Plea of the Great Cities
• Station Reports

June 1913 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

October 1913 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Editorial
• Un Vermet de Peaume
• The Letter "M" Conclusion
• Climbing
• "The Supreme Passion"
• Graded Lesson
• A Night at the Concordia
• Zurich S.S. Convention
• A Call to Prayer
• From the Desert
• The Tragedy of Bulgaria
• Praise. Station Reports

January 1914 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Editorial
• Palm IV
• Liberty
• "A Chain of Prayer"
• Lord Radstock
• Life out of death
• Praise Records
• The Frent
• From Egypt
• Wanders that never cease
• Object Lessons
• Zurick S.S. Convention II
• Station Reports

June 1914 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Editorial
• The Way of God
• Three Days at Nefta. Djerid
• Conference at Dar Naama
• Dr. Zwemer's Visits
• "En Avant" A.M.B.
• From Egypt
• Union on the Field
• Station Reports

October 1914 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Editorial
• Many Voices
• Another Side of War
• Many Voices
• Another Side of War
• A.M.B. Notes
• Another bit of the Story
• Into the Mountains
• A Mystic
• From Egypt
• What the Seuth Said
• "A Scrap of paper"
• Burial of Lord Roberts
• Praise Record & Station Reports

July 1915 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Foreword
• Editorial
• "In us the Hope of Glory"
• Far and Near
• A.M.B. and...
• Praise Report
• Palms II. A Reprint
• Egypt
• A Fast and a Parable
• Station Reports

April 1916 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Editorial
• Songs of the Living and the Dead
• Atmostphere
• The House of Lovely Sacrifice
• Kitchener of Khartoum
• Light of Life, and A Sequel
• Praise Record
• A Week in the Villages. 1907
• Berdj al Ouidane
• A.M.B. Notes
• Pages from an Old Book
• Station Reports

July 1917 pdf [Download Complete Issue]

• Frontispiece
• Editorial
• Psalm XX
• The Fourth Year of War
• From South Africa
• A.M.B. Notes
• The Length and Breadth of the Land
• "Let your Requests"
• Some Tozeur Henis
• Desert Roses
• Station Reports
• Literature Notes