Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 452 Papers of Elwood L. Davis
Collection
Identifier: CN 452
Scope and Contents
Diaries, photographs, and miscellaneous materials about Elwood L. Davis and his medical missionary work in Kenya for the Africa Inland Mission (AIM). Topics covered include brief descriptions of daily life in Africa, of his army medical service during World War I, places visited, colleagues entertained, services held, birth of his sons, death of his wife, etc.; diaries cover, with a few gaps, the years 1902 until his death in 1961; includes information on his father, various licenses and...
Dates:
Created: 1882-1961
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- Subject
- Kenya 3
- Kenya -- Description and travel. 3
- Kijabe (Kenya) 3
- Missions. 3
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Evangelistic work. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Masai (African people) 2
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- Tanzania. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Animism. 1
- Baptism. 1
- Bible -- Inspiration. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 1
- Courtship. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Tanzania. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 1
- Indigenous church administration 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 1
- Kenya -- Religion. 1
- Kikuyu (African people) 1
- Leprosy. 1
- Maasai (African people) 1
- Maasai (African people) -- Religion. 1
- Medical care 1
- Medical care -- Kenya. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of. 1
- Missionaries -- Australia. 1
- Missionaries -- Sweden. 1
- Missionaries' spouses. 1
- Missions -- Comoros. 1
- Missions -- Congresses. 1
- Missions -- Educational work. 1
- Missions -- Uganda. 1
- Missions -- Zaire. 1
- Missions, Medical. 1
- Mombasa (Kenya) 1
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 1
- Revivals. 1
- Tanzania 1
- Tanzania -- Description and travel. 1
- Tribes -- Kenya. 1
- Tribes. 1
- Uganda 1
- Uganda -- Description and travel. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- World War, 1914-1918. 1 ∧ less
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