Abstract

JOSHUA, Stephen Muoki; MUNGAI, Edward  and  MUSUMBA, David. The Swedish Free Mission (SFM) work in Kenya between 1960 and 1984. Studia Hist. Ecc. [online]. 2017, vol.43, n.1, pp.1-21. ISSN 2412-4265.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2412-4265/2016/828.

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 in 1964. 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.

Keywords : Swedish Free Mission (SFM); Kenya; missionary work; colonial era; 1964 independence; Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya (FPFK).

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