The Reincarnation of Missionary Activities in Kenya, the Case of the Inter-Christian Fellowship Evangelical Mission in Kimilili Sub-County

Abstract

This paper is an extract from a Master of Arts Degree Thesis presented to the Graduate School of Kenyatta University-Kenya in April 2017. The study interrogated the Impact of the Inter-Christian Fellowship Evangelical Mission (IcFEM) on circumcision rituals among the Bukusu community in Kimilili constituency in a Historical perspective.However, this paper examine done of the research objectives, nature and evolution of IcFEM in the study area from the time it was established in 1988 up to 2012, portraying key activities engaged in by the mission officials such as the establishment of schools, hospitals and the provision of other substantive services to the local community. For this objective to be explicitly realized, the theoretical tenets of the evolutionary paradigm were employed and they were fruitful in analyzing the growth and the development of IcFEM in Kimilili constituency. Purposive sampling was adopted in getting the resource people who were eventually interviewed to generate the findings of this paper. Oral Interview (abbreviated as O.I in the entire text) was a key research instrument that was successfully administered to generate substantive findings (Refer to the list of the informants provided in the references section). That aside, significant information was also gathered from the Kenya National Archives (abbreviated as KNA) to enrich the findings of this research.