The Church and Students’ Moral Development in Kenya: Strategies Employed in Secondary Schools

This book documents churches’ active involvement in moral development of students in their sponsored schools. It answers the question on what strategies churches have put in place to ensure that students who go through their sponsored schools are impacted with sound teaching of good morals to become better citizens during and after their secondary schooling. Churches, being custodians of God’s Word and teachers of moral values, have touched people’s lives throughout their lives and from their involvement in education from the earliest of times, their impact to schools and educators in shaping the morals in younger generations should never be discounted nor overlooked. In spite of this, many challenges still abound in the society, with young people of high-school going age, and those who have just completed, getting involved in crime and unbecoming behaviour. Therefore, this book fills a gap in literature in the area of strategies employed by the church toward the moral development of students in church sponsored secondary schools, highlights the place of school administrators and government education offices in assisting the church in its mission in sponsored schools, and contributes knowledge for churches to learn from when setting up and running schools.