Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya)
Organization
Found in 3 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 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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work. 2
- Family. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Animism. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 1
- Church and state -- Kenya. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Kenya. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 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
- Great Britain 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 1
- Illiteracy. 1
- Indigenous church administration 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 1
- Kenya 1
- Kenya -- Description and travel. 1
- Kenya -- Religion. 1
- Kijabe (Kenya) 1
- Kikuyu (African people) 1
- Leprosy. 1
- Maasai (African people) 1
- Maasai (African people) -- Religion. 1
- Marriage. 1
- Missionaries -- Africa. 1
- Missionaries -- Asia. 1
- Missionaries -- Australia. 1
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Missionaries -- Sweden. 1
- Missionaries' spouses. 1
- Missions -- Africa. 1
- Missions -- Comoros. 1
- Missions -- Educational work. 1
- Missions -- International cooperation. 1
- Missions -- Rural work -- Kenya. 1
- Missions -- Rural work. 1
- Missions -- Tanzania. 1
- Missions. 1
- Nairobi (Kenya) 1
- Ngong (Kenya) 1
- Polygamy. 1
- Poverty. 1
- Refugees 1
- Refugees -- Kenya. 1
- Rendille (African people) 1
- Rendille (language) 1
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 1
- Revivals. 1
- Rural missions. 1
- Slums 1
- Slums -- Nairobi. 1
- Tribes -- Kenya. 1
- Tribes. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1 ∧ less
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