Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya)
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Africa Inland Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 081
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, minutes of meetings, films, videos, audio recordings, and other materials documenting the work of the mission in east Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Zaire, Tanzania, Sudan, the Central African Republic) and other regions of the continent. The bulk of the collection consists of the files of the US branch of the mission, although there are also significant amounts of material from the international office and the Tanzanian field office. Topics covered include...
Dates:
Created: 1888-2009
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1997
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 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
Collection 513 Oral History Interview with John R. Stauffacher
Collection
Identifier: CN 513
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which John Raymond Stauffacher in which he describes his childhood in Kenya, missionary parents John and Florence Stauffacher, his brother Claudon, missions in Kenya, the Masai people, Mrs. Westervelt and the Westervelt Home, studying and teaching at Rift Valley Academy, Charles Hurlburt, the Mau Mau Rebellion, Great Britain's colonial administration of Kenya, Christian life, conversion, missionary call, language learning and missionary work with Africa Inland...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Herbert Downing home movies.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2018-016
Dates:
1937-1953
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Phil Dow's oral histories about Rift Valley Academy.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1999-054
Dates:
1997-1999
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth and Harry Johnson papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1990-062
Dates:
1962-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Filtered By
- Subject: Children of missionaries. X
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 6
- Unprocessed Material 3
- Subject
- Missions -- Kenya. 7
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missionaries. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and state. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Family. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 2
- Kijabe (Kenya) 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Maasai (African people) 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missions -- Central African Republic. 2
- Missions -- Comoros. 2
- Missions -- Tanzania. 2
- Missions. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Tribes -- Kenya. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- African American missionaries. 1
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Baptism. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Boarding schools -- Africa. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian education -- Tanzania. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Africa, East. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Africa. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 1
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 1
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 1
- Church and state -- Kenya. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Kenya. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 1
- Conversion -- Christianity. 1
- Courtship. 1
- Crime and criminals 1
- Crime and criminals -- United States. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Decolonization--Kenya--History--20th century 1
- Education (Christian theology) 1
- Education of women. 1
- Eldoret (Kenya) 1
- Emergency management. 1
- Evangelicalism -- Congo. 1
- Evangelicalism -- Kenya. 1
- Evangelicalism -- Tanzania. 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Central African Republic. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Evangelistic work -- Rwanda 1
- Evangelistic work -- Sudan. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Uganda. 1
- Female circumcision 1
- Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Africa. 1
- Fundamentalism. 1
- Githumu, Kenya. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies ?z Kenya. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 1
- Great Britain--Colonies--Kenya 1
- Homosexuality -- Christianity. 1
- Homosexuality. 1 ∧ less
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