The Swedish Free Mission (SFM) Work in Kenya Between 1960 and 1984

Authors

  • Stephen Muoki Joshua Pwani University and UNISA
  • Edward Mungai FPFK
  • David Musumba FPFK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/828

Keywords:

Swedish Free Mission (SFM), Kenya, missionary work, colonial era, 1964 independence, Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya (FPFK)

Abstract

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.

References

Ayieye, J. and Gjervoldstad, V. 1999.Church Leaders Seminar: Leadership FPFK Structure Management, FPFK Capacity Building Programme, OD &CB project manual, Nairobi, 4.

FPFK.1984 Annual General Meeting Minutes of FPFK, 2-15.

FPFK Organizational Documentation. 2001. The Constitution and Rules doc. 001. Nairobi: Uzima Centre.

Joshua, S.M.2006. The interface between ‘Missionary’ and ‘National’ theological education in the Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya: A historical perspective, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, December 2006 XXXII(3): 173-191.

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Published

2017-07-13

How to Cite

Joshua, Stephen Muoki, Edward Mungai, and David Musumba. 2017. “The Swedish Free Mission (SFM) Work in Kenya Between 1960 and 1984”. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 43 (1):200-220. https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/828.

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