The founder of AIM, Peter Cameron Scott, set up the first mission station in Kenya in 1895 (and died from fever a year later). The church growing from this beginning spread all over the country. It became the self governing Africa Inland Church in 1952, and was given control of the Mission's work in 1971.

AIM has nearly 200 missionaries working with the AIC in Kenya, together with those who serve the whole of AIM and other missions through Rift Valley Academy, a school for missionaries' children, and through International Services, a technical and logistical support arm of AIM, in Nairobi.

About 12 percent of the people of Kenya belong to people groups still not affected by the gospel, though most of these now have some outreach within them. They chiefly comprise Muslim groups in the northeast and along the coast, some nomadic pastoral tribes, and the Asian community. The rapid growth of the church itself brings problems through lack of an adequate number of trained leaders. Some second and third generation Christians are only nominally so, and revival is needed. Bible training is a key priority of AIM in Kenya. Many of AIM's activities include a training element with a view to replacement of missionaries by national Christians.

Kenya has one of the highest number of missionaries as compared to any country in the world. This is partly because it has strategic significance for the whole of Africa. It's capital, Nairobi is a key center for many organizations. The establishment by the Africa Inland Church of its own missionary college offers promise that the AIC will have increasing influence beyond the borders of Kenya.