Pastor Dorcas Rigathi shakes hands with Bishop Dr. Mophat Kilioba of PEFA Church when they met at the home of Apostle Joe Kayo in Syokimau. Apostle Kayo was the founder of Deliverance Church International and Pioneer of the Pentecostal Movement East Africa. Photo/OSDP
The Prelate Was Credited As Pioneer of Pentecostal Movement-East Africa
By OSDP
The Spouse of the Deputy President Pastor Dorcas Rigathi is among thousands who have mourned the death of the Founder of Deliverance Church International and Pioneer of the Pentecostal Movement-East Africa Apostle Joe Kayo.
On Tuesday evening, Pastor Dorcas visited the home of Apostle Joe in Syokimau where she condoled with the wife, Mama Rose Kayo, their first-born son, Joe Junior Kayo, other family members, friends and pastors.
Pastor Dorcas eulogized Apostle Joe as ‘a man who stood firm in the faith and did not seek the approval of men, but only that of God’. “We must take up the spirit of our father,” said Pastor Dorcas.
Apostle Kayo is credited in the Christian circles as having pioneered the Pentecostal Movement-East Africa. He also founded Deliverance Church in 1970, which has multiplied across the country with branches even in the East Africa region.
Apostle Kayo planted churches in Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa, among other places.
Pastor Dorcas encouraged the church in Kenya to honour fathers of faith, who worked tirelessly across the nation to spread the gospel and plant (establish) churches.
“Let us honour our Fathers of Faith when they are here with us. They have the spiritual mantle, and we shall have it distributed. Let us not make the error of Gehazi where the mantle was taken by a dead man, when the dead man touched the bones of Elisha and came to life,” said Pastor Dorcas.
Pastor Dorcas has continually called on a good relationship between fathers and sons in the church to establish the gospel firmly in the country.
Joe Junior who had just arrived from the US a few hours earlier appreciated the spouse of the DP for honouring their father in death.
He said that his father was born again in 1957, and served in the ministry for the last 66 years.
He held lunch hour meetings in the capital Nairobi, and was a highly sought after teacher of the Word, conference speaker and author of tens of books.
Apostle Kayo served until his death at the Christian Family Church, Shauri Moyo. He was 86 years old.
He has left behind his wife, Mama Rose, three sons, Joe Junior Kayo, John Kayo and James Kayo, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.
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