Maintain Vows , Fill the Earth and be Brethren’s Keeper, Africans Advised

Rev. Samuel Kimohu, left, and Rev. Dr. Mumbui Karimi, together with Peter Waiganjo, the bridegroom and Clarice Mhago, the bride, during a wedding ceremony last Saturday at the CCF church in Lowell.

LOWELL, Mass. , AUGUST 25_African partners in marriage have been advised to dwell on the virtues that will drive their marriages to success instead of concentrating on the challenges that may threaten or shake the sacred institution of love, while at the same time, becoming a brethren’s keeper to avoid growing homelessness while in a distant land.

In a sermon that largely emphasized on the integral role of an African man as the head of family in a contemporary western world, two African pastors urged the Christian society to uphold and respect the sanctity of marriage as per the teachings of Christ. 

While presiding over the unification ceremony in the holy matrimony between 
A Kenyan young man Peter Waiganjo, and his beautiful bride, Clarice  Mhango  from Zambia,  Pastor Kimohu (Saint Stephen church, Lowell )   and  Pastor Mumbui Karimi (Ushindi church Lowell ) referred to the colorful wedding as  a perfect recipe for  love brewed  in an African pot.  

The event that was held at the Community Christian Fellowship church (CCF), in Lowell last Saturday, August 19th 2010, was well attended by relatives and friends to witness the race inter country marriage.

As prelude to the marriage vows, Pastor Karimi insisted on discipline and focus as he likened marital life to driving, where the slightest obstruction may read to a wanton disaster.

Quoting a verse from the book of Ecclesiastics that “two people are better than one for they have a good reward for their labor”

Peter Waiganjo from Kenya and Clarice Mhango  from Zambia

Pastor Kimohu a 25 year old veteran in a monogamous marriage, who himself recently renewed his marriage vows this summer, took issues with African men who are still stuck to the stereotypes of the man’s masculinity role in the marriage and family.

 During the sermon, Rev. Kimohu said that the days of muscles in marriage are long gone and has been replaced by an era of consulting and getting together for a common goal in achieving the family’s inheritance.  

He challenged African men to continue with their traditional belief of being the determinants of what their family will inherit. He further   cautioned that one cannot escape the future responsibilities by evading them today.

He moved the faithful when he took men into terms on their procrastination as far as love and affection is concerned .This came as complement to the preacher’s earlier statement when he hit the bull’s eye by challenging Africans to be brethren keepers.

 He questioned the moral integrity of the rising cases of homelessness among Africans in the New England yet their fellow brethren have spare rooms in their houses.

“We always come out to raise money to repatriate bodies yet when the mortal souls were languishing, we were not there to help”, lamented the pastor.

 “The money we raise to ship these bodies home can be put to better use by arresting the situations that led our brethren into shelters in the first place, helping them get back onto their feet and thus saving their lives”, added the preacher. 

The usually humorous pastor excited guests with nuggets of wisdom, at one point asking the bridegroom to take his new matrimonial duty seriously by being fruitful and filling the earth as per Christian teachings.

  “Peter, when u see someone seating under a shade of a tree during summer, you have to know that the tree was planted along time ago by some one else”, advised the man of God.

 “ It is your responsibility to ensure that whatever good you saw in your partner and that comfort you get from her, you reciprocate by procreation so that someone else will also get a companion”, he added, sending the guests roaring with laughter.

Waiganjo listens keenly to advise dished, while his bride, Clarice, watches him , making certain he was listening.

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