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| Kathy Kiuna recalls trying to raise her husband from dead |
Kathy Kiuna has moved Kenyans to tears after paying a glowing tribute to her husband, Bishop Allan Kiuna, who succumbed to cancer. Kathy Kiuna was overwhelmed by emotions while talking about her late husband, Bishop Allan Kiuna. How Kathy Kiuna tried to keep hubby alive Speaking during the Sunday, July 14 service at Jubilee Christian Church (JCC) in Parklands, Kathy recalled how she and other pastors, including Nigeria’s pastor Obasike, tried several times to keep Bishop Allan Kiuna alive a few hours before he died. “When bishop breathed his last, we were there with my son Pastor Maurice, Dennis and Lydia. We were standing around him praying,” she said in part. Kathy said she kept telling her husband to tell Jesus it was not the right time to call him. “I begged him and told him, ‘please baby listen, this is not the hour…” The stylish preacher said she even told God He would rather take her than her husband, Kiuna, because he had a great vision. “When my best friend got to the end of the road and he kept saying ‘I wanna go home’ we kept rejecting it. When he kept saying he wanna go home, I would tell him, Hunny, no you cannot say that. You are not going anywhere. Then he would say ‘They are coming’ and we would chase them away, but we refused it. He was my best friend, and I couldn’t live without him,” Kathy said as she fought tears. Kathy said she was confident prayers would keep the bishop alive and even chased the nurses away from her husband’s room. “When Pastor Esther Obasike came in, she said ‘This one is sleeping.’ She did her Nigerian ‘drama’ and lifted bishop and asked him to wake up. The other pastors went out, leaving Obasike and I alone with bishop, and I became Nigerian. We did every shakara…we were going to wake that man up with every faith we had for three hours. We tried everything we know,” she explained. What was Kathy Kiuna’s request during hubby’s mass? Reverend Kathy talked about her deep love for her man, whom she was married to for 30 years, admitting things weren’t easy. “Church my eyes are on the Lord. I can tell you it hurts so much. It is so painful. It pierces. I’m wounded and hurting. My best friend has left me. I loved bishop with every breath that I could take,” teary Kathy said while being supported by a group of women.”The last two weeks, he was tired and kept closing his eyes,” she said. Kathy asked the church to keep her and her children in their prayers, admitting she was heartbroken. “Pray for me and my kids. They told me it gets lonely and tougher when we put him in the grave. I need your prayers because I don’t know how to navigate through this.”
by Caren Nyota