Open AccessThe Swedish Free Mission (SFM) Work in Kenya Between 1960 and 1984
Author(s) -
Stephen Muoki Joshua,
Edward Mungai,
David Musumba
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
studia historiae ecclesiasticae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-4265
pISSN - 1017-0499
DOI - 10.25159/2412-4265/828
Subject(s) - colonialism , independence (probability theory) , work (physics) , geography , sociology , history , political science , gender studies , ethnology , archaeology , engineering , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics
This article is a descriptive account of early missionary work of the Swedish Free Mission (SFM) in Kenya during the last part of the colonial era after national independence in1964. It attempts to reconstruct a memory of surviving local clerics and missionaries on their collaborative work in birthing a local church, the Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya (FPFK). It relies on 20 in-depth interviews conducted by the authors in 2014, as well as missionary records found in FPFK’s head office in Nairobi.