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Name: REYNOLDS, Reginald Vincent (Rev.)
Nee: son of Henry Thomas Reynolds
Birth Date: 22 Sep 1901 Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia
Death Date: 19 Nov 1964 Wynberg, S. Africa, leukaemia
First Date: 1919
Profession: Africa Inland Mission
Area: Box 409, Nairobi, Hut - 1930 Thika, Githumu, Kapsowar
Married: In Renfrew, Ontario 6 Aug 1924 Victoria Alexandra Hamilton b. 4 May 1902 Alice, Renfrew, Ontario, d. 1976 Transvaal
Children: Graham (1926 Kenya-1935 Kijabe); Eileen M. (1928 Kenya); David H. (1932); Ruth Shirley (1933)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Miller, Foster, Grasshoppers
War Service: RE
General Information:
Miller - …. our Superintendent the Rev R.V. Reynolds had sent word to the British Home Council ..
Red 31 has Rev. R.V. Reynolds, Githumu, Fort Hall
Grasshoppers - from South Africa - started Kapsowar mission station.
Kenneth Richardson, Garden of Miracles , A History of the Africa Inland Mission, Reg had been born in Australia, but while he was an infant his parents moved to South Africa. There he had his education. A trip to East Africa with his father, herding cattle and hunting, brought him
into contact with missionaries. A casual remark made by one of them made him conscious of a great lack in his own life, and led eventually to his conversion. He went to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and, after graduating, he married a Canadian fellow-student. He often said that he had been born in Australia, brought up in South Africa, trained in America, married in Canada, worked in Kenya and his citizenship was in Heaven!
They arrived in Kenya in 1925. Their first few years were spent at Githumu, one of the older Kikuyu stations. Reg became an expert in Swahili, taking advanced government examinations. Later, Reg was asked to make a survey trip into the tribes to the north of the township of Eldoret. This eniailed travelling over 2,000 miles by car into territory
occupied by the Marakwet, Geyo, Tuken and East Suk (Pokot) tribes. In some parts there were no roads at all. On the floor of the Rift Valley, in the low burning plains of the Pokot they had to cross unbridged rivers, as well as river-beds where water was only seen at the height of the
annual rainy season. During the course of this long safari they visited places which had never before been reached by missionaries, and
where the Gospel was unknown. Only those who have seen the precipitous hills and deep valleys can appreciate all that this and subsequent safaris cost in physical endurance. As a result of these journeys, the whole area was thrown open to the Gospel.
into contact with missionaries. A casual remark made by one of them made him conscious of a great lack in his own life, and led eventually to his conversion. He went to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and, after graduating, he married a Canadian fellow-student. He often said that he had been born in Australia, brought up in South Africa, trained in America, married in Canada, worked in Kenya and his citizenship was in Heaven!
They arrived in Kenya in 1925. Their first few years were spent at Githumu, one of the older Kikuyu stations. Reg became an expert in Swahili, taking advanced government examinations. Later, Reg was asked to make a survey trip into the tribes to the north of the township of Eldoret. This eniailed travelling over 2,000 miles by car into territory
occupied by the Marakwet, Geyo, Tuken and East Suk (Pokot) tribes. In some parts there were no roads at all. On the floor of the Rift Valley, in the low burning plains of the Pokot they had to cross unbridged rivers, as well as river-beds where water was only seen at the height of the
annual rainy season. During the course of this long safari they visited places which had never before been reached by missionaries, and
where the Gospel was unknown. Only those who have seen the precipitous hills and deep valleys can appreciate all that this and subsequent safaris cost in physical endurance. As a result of these journeys, the whole area was thrown open to the Gospel.
In 1934 the station at Kapsowar was opened. Reg made his centre at Kapsabet, and remained there till 1959. He was then made Acting Field Director and moved to Nairobi.
Kijabe cemetery 'Graham Reynolds with Christ 1926-1935'