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Three Baptist Associations in Central Kenya asked the Baptist Mission of East Africa to help them establish a high school in Nyeri in 1964.
The mission provided land while the local associations and Southern Baptists in the US provided funds through the Lottie Moon Offering and Cooperative Program.
The construction of Nyeri Baptist High School kicked off immediately, and come February 12, 1966 Nyeri Baptist High opened shop with 39 students and two classrooms. Of the first batch were four girls who slept in the headmaster’s house.
The first teaching staffs were missionaries with two or three Kenyan teachers. In 1997, the school was turned over to the Baptist Convention of Kenya, and has since cemented its Christian teachings — students even minister to the neighbouring society.
The school’s objective has been to produce spiritually, morally sound as well academically astute students.
While Nyeri Baptist was a ‘hotbed’ of table tennis and swimming, it was in basket ball that it was ‘feared’ countrywide. See, basketball was actually taught as a subject!
Notable alumni who were guided by the motto “Elimu ni Ushindi” include; the talented singer-producer Kanjii Mbugua, who started singing after joining an acapella group in Nyeri Baptist, which he joined because he thought they were cool. Others include news anchor Nimrod Taabu, television reporter Chege Kariuki, Joseph Waigwi, a registrar at University of Nairobi and Morris Maina, a manager with Microsoft Corporation,
SuperSport anchor Chiko Lawi and Shadrack Njiru, son to veteran rally driver Patrick Njiru.
