Newspaper Reports that an Adventist Pastor has been Killed in Kenya
By AT News Team, Dec. 11, 2014: The Star newspaper in Nairobi has reported that Pastor George Irungu of the Thamanda Seventh-day Adventist Church has died from an attack last Wednesday (Dec. 3). He was attacked by a gang at about 8 p.m. near a shopping center in the town of Kerwa, according to the newspaper, in what was evidently a robbery.
He was taken to St. Theresa Hospital by other people in the area, the newspaper stated. Then he was transferred to Coptic Hospital in Nairobi due to his serious condition. He did not survive despite medical care.
The All Africa news service quoted the pastor’s brother-in-law, Samuel Kimani, urging the authorities to investigate the killing and find the criminals involved. He said that Irungu “was a hardworking man who encouraged family members and worshipers to face life’s challenges with courage and confidence [in God]. We lost a pillar [of] society. No one can fit in his shoes.”
Because the denomination’s Yearbook no longer includes a complete list of all pastors, Adventist Today could not confirm Irungu’s identification. It is possible that he was a lay pastor or local elder leading a congregation and not a denominational employee.
Kenya has nearly 5,000 Adventist local churches and a membership of about 860,000. There are probably twice that many Adventist adherents.
We are surly all saddened by this death and bolstered spiritually be the brother’s testimony.
I was also interested to learn that there are 860,000 Seventh-day Adventist members in Kenya, and ‘probably twice that many adherents.’ So in keeping with the article elsewhere here about Adventists in name only, I guess one can say half of the Seventh-day Adventists in Kenya qualify as Adventist in name only … Though if all Seventh-day Adventists as I noted in a comment to that article are indeed Seventh-day Adventist in name only there really are 1.7 million Seventh-day Adventists in Kenya.
I guess one could say half of the Seventh-day Adventists in Kenya are undocumented.
While in the founding nation the million or so documented Seventh-day Adventists include, what, a couple hundred non-adherents?
I for one wonder why the conversation about members needs to make so many distinctions. Does God? I think not. Why should we then?
The reason why there are 860,000 members in Kenya and about the same number besides who are affiliated with the church is that for every member in Kenya there is a child who attends Sabbath School and many interests who are not yet baptized but who are attending church. The church in Kenya is a dynamic, actively growing church.
This is a big loss to the church in Kenya having witnesed the effort that the church has been putting into public outreach.
IT IS SADNESS TO HEAR OF PASTOR IRUNGU IN KENYA I ONCE WAS A MENBER AT THAMANDA SDA CHURCH
SIMON K MUREU,
CERTIFIED CHAPLAIN–DISASTERS.
FREELANCE JOURNALIST
This is a very sadness incidents that has been occurred.Its a very serious thing that has been taking place;But there is nothing happens without the knowledge of of the most high God.{Heb.4:13;Isa.46:9,10;Matt.1:26-28} May be he has really finished which he has been commissioned or assigned.Let us leave everything to God,which knows the best.
Also we should really pray hard because the devil is at work for he really knows that he has but a very short time.{Rev.12:12}
God should really intervene and have mercy upon us all.
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