Pastor Dorcas Rigathi urges churches to rescue, rehabilitate drug addicts
The
Spouse of the Deputy President Pastor Dorcas Rigathi has called for churches to
engage in the rehabilitation of those lost in alcohol, drugs, and substance
abuse.
Pastor
Dorcas said this on Wednesday during the meeting of 300 clergy at the Full
Gospel Church of Kenya in Kitale, which marked her first meeting in Trans Nzoia
County.
She
gave the clergy the example of PEFA Church in Donholm that opened its doors to
doors to those in addictions, and 400 transformed their lives, and are now
alcohol and drug free and also trained in technical skills.
The
church, led by Bishop Dr. Mophat Kilioba was among the first churches to engage
in church community-based rehabilitation when Pastor Dorcas started calling on
faith-based organisations to open up their places of worship for the
vulnerable.
“If
the 300 gathered here could rehabilitate 10 each, we shall have rehabilitated
3,000. The future church is in the gutter, drug dens and muguka shades. Let us fish them
out from there,” she said.
The
foundation of the office of the Spouse of the Deputy President (OSDP) is
‘Chaplaincy, Outreach and Family Values’ where she closely works with clergy
from across denominations – Christian, Muslim and Hindu.
Kenya
has more than 10,000 churches, mosques and temples. Pastor Dorcas believes that
these faith-based organisations would open their doors, and reach out to those
in addiction and vulnerable, a generation would be saved.
Present
were Trans Nzoia Senator Allan Chesang, Woman Representative Lillian Siyoi,
PEFA Church Bishop Dr. Mophat Kilioba among others.
Pastor
Dorcas shared the vision of her office of ‘A Dignified Future for Vulnerable Populations’ that
includes boy child, widows and orphans, and people with disabilities (PWDs).
During
her three days working stay in Trans Nzoia she will have different programs
reaching out to the different groups of people across the county, that include
a medical camp, meetings with widows and those with disability.
Senator
Chesang, County MP Siyoi and Representative of Governor George Natembeya Truphosa
Wamere welcomed the spouse of the DP to the county.
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