Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Barbara L. Collins Oral History Interviews
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
Herbert Downing Oral History Interview
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
Laura Neva Collins Papers
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Bible -- Translating. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Kikuyu (African people) 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Bulu (African people) 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 1
- Church and state -- Kenya. 1
- Church architecture -- Kenya. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Kenya. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- Conversion -- Christianity. 1
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 1
- Crime and criminals -- United States. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Education (Christian theology) 1
- Eldoret (Kenya) 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 1
- Families. 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Kenya. 1
- Germany -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Idols and images. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 1
- Kenya -- Religion. 1
- Kijabe (Kenya) 1
- Literacy. 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 -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 1
- Missions -- Rural work -- Kenya. 1
- Missions -- Rural work. 1
- Nairobi (Kenya) 1
- Ngong (Kenya) 1
- Polygamy. 1
- Poverty. 1
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Presbyterians. 1
- Refugees -- Kenya. 1
- Rendille (African people) 1
- Rendille language. 1
- Slums -- Kenya -- Nairobi. 1
- Tribes -- Cameroon. 1
- Tribes -- Kenya. 1
- Women -- Education. 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- Women missionaries. 1 ∧ less
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