Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 251 Oral History Interview with Herbert Downing
Collection
Identifier: CN 251
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Herbert Downing (1905-1986) in which he describes his childhood as a child of missionaries in Kenya, attending Rift Valley Academy in Kenya, a visit of Theodore Roosevelt to the Academy, his father's work as pastor and administrator, Africa Inland Mission's policy on the education of missionary children, and Downing's own work as an educator at Rift Valley Academy. The time period covered by the interview is 1905-1983Herbert Downing was intereviewed by...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 281 Papers of John and Florence Stauffacher
Collection
Identifier: CN 281
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes, clippings, and photographs relating to the Stauffachers' work as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission, chiefly from 1911 to the early 1940s. The materials document their careers from the earliest stages, describing their responsibilities and everyday life, primarily in Kenya and the Belgian Congo, but also in Uganda & Tanzania, their developing relationship by correspondence prior to Mrs. Stauffacher's arrival in Kenya and their subsequent...
Dates:
Created: 1902-1973
Collection 422 Papers of Laura Neva Collins
Collection
Identifier: CN 422
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives, negatives, and photographs relating to the ministry of Laura Neva Collins, missionary to Kenya with Africa Inland Mission from 1907-1952. Shots include missionaries, Africans, indigenous artifacts, church architecture, etc., relating to mission work in Africa.This collection originally consisted of ninety-seven black and white glass negatives of missionary activities in Africa before 1914. There are two series of glass negatives. The first series may have taken...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1914
Collection 508 Oral History Interviews with Barbara L. Collins
Collection
Identifier: CN 508
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Barbara Lynn (Miner) Collins in which she describes her childhood; family's religious background; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development in college and young professional life; acceptance as a missionary by Africa Inland Mission (AIM); arrival on the mission field in Kenya; work among the Rendile and Kikuyu peoples; raising children on the mission field; development of women's program at Africa Inland Church Missionary College; work among women refugees...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
Dates:
Created: 1995
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- Subject: Bible X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Bible. 4
- Missionaries. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Evangelistic work. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missions. 3
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Family. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Kenya 2
- Kijabe (Kenya) 2
- Kikuyu (African people) 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Masai (African people) 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Zaire. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Tribes -- Kenya. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Animism. 1
- Bible -- Inspiration. 1
- Bulu (African people) 1
- Children of missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Church and state -- Kenya. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church architecture. 1
- Church architecture. -- Kenya. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Kenya. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 1
- Conversion -- Christianity. 1
- Courtship. 1
- Crime and criminals 1
- Crime and criminals -- United States. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Education (Christian theology) 1
- Education of women. 1
- Eldoret (Kenya) 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
- Evangelicalism. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 1
- Female circumcision 1
- Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Africa. 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Kenya 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies. 1
- Germany 1
- Germany -- Colonies 1
- Germany -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Githumu, Kenya. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies ?z Kenya. 1
- Homosexuality -- Christianity. 1
- Homosexuality. 1
- Idols and images. 1
- Illiteracy. 1
- Independent churches -- Kenya. 1
- Independent churches. 1
- Influenza 1
- Influenza -- History. 1
- Kamba (African people) 1
- Kenya -- Description and travel. 1
- Kenya -- Religion. 1
- Marriage. 1
- Missionaries -- Africa. 1
- Missionaries -- Asia. 1
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missions -- Africa. 1
- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Missions -- Congresses. 1
- Missions -- International cooperation. 1 ∧ less
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