Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya)
Organization
Found in 3 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 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
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- Subject
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Kikuyu (African people) 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Animism. 1
- Bulu (African people) 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education. 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
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 1
- Conversion. 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 -- Kenya. 1
- Evangelistic work. 1
- Family. 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Kenya 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies. 1
- Germany 1
- Germany -- Colonies 1
- Germany -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 1
- Idols and images. 1
- Illiteracy. 1
- Indigenous church administration 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 1
- Kenya 1
- Kenya -- Religion. 1
- Kijabe (Kenya) 1
- Marriage. 1
- Missionaries -- Africa. 1
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 1
- Missionaries -- Asia. 1
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Missionaries' spouses. 1
- Missions -- Africa. 1
- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Missions -- International cooperation. 1
- Missions -- Rural work -- Kenya. 1
- Missions -- Rural work. 1
- Missions -- Zaire. 1
- Missions. 1
- Nairobi (Kenya) 1
- Ngong (Kenya) 1
- Polygamy. 1
- Poverty. 1
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 1
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Presbyterians. 1
- Refugees 1
- Refugees -- Kenya. 1
- Rendille (African people) 1
- Rendille (language) 1
- Slums 1
- Slums -- Nairobi. 1
- Tribes -- Cameroon. 1
- Tribes -- Kenya. 1
- Tribes. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- Women missionaries. 1 ∧ less
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