WIFE INHERITANCE

After the death of the husband (from any cause including AIDS), culture takes root immediately. The widow is regarded unclean and is not supposed to visit any home, market, garden etc until when she is inherited. If she enters a church, the other women will walk out and leave her a lone. On the day of inheritance, she is given  a man of the elder’s choice. She is not supposed to comment. They are locked inside to play sex. It is the initial sex play after the burial that cleanses the woman. She is now supposed to stay with this man as her keeper while all the children will be regarded as that of the dead husband. The woman is supposed to clothe, feed and maintain this man. The man can in turn run away due to poor maintenance. The greatest ignored danger here is the spread of Aids virus through this system. As a result of this practice, several homes are closed down. The man is infected and goes over to infect his matrimonial wife and the circle continues. The role of the Church in this issue is well defined in the bible. Once we get a place to gather, we will bomb this practice to its shell ! The women have continuosly expressed disatisfication of this practice but they can not come out of it for fear of marginalization.

Mark Robert Wilson

It is just important for us to remember this man of God. We havent seen each other but believes that very soon we will come to each other face to face.

Our members here have been worshipping in an open air makeshift tent for the last four months. It was terrible. Because it was during rainy season, it really rained on women and children. Several of our services were disrupted by continuous rainfall.

The number of attendants reduced drastically. Then out of a big surprise, Mark Robert Wilson sent us aus $ 1000 which is equivalent to Ksh. 55,000/-. He told us “It is your money, you can use it”. Our church quickly found the need to start a foundational structure for a 250 to 500 member capacity church foundation. With that help we have made a good structure. In the structure are two wings. One wing on the right can be used as church office while the other on the left can be used as an early Childhood Development class.

We are proud of it. We are now remaining only with the roofing and it will be complete. We have worked on the cost to be $2359. We accepts all deposits or installments or denominations. Junk by junk we will succeed.

Once completed, the building will be used for the preached word. It will be both a restoration centre and a rehabilitation centre. It will be used for bible study and the vast field around it can be used for recreational activities. This place must be delivered from their harmful deep rooted culture in Wife Inheritance which helps the spread of Aids in this village at a higher rate. Most homes here are empty due to the dreaded aids. Nowonder, 98% of our church congregation comprises of widows and orphans.

Their culture of POLYGAMOUS marriage with not a single property for sustainance. Polygamy is practiced here only on the sense that a husband can receive food from any of the wives. A wife who do not get her own food is neglected by the husband and the husband refuses to sleep in her house ! Ghosh !

The culture of girl Child frustration. A girl in this community is a property which when sold, brings wealth in the form of dowry. And as such no education is required for her. It is the male child who is educated using the dowry from the girl child.

This house once completed will give hope to the already half of the population of the abused girls children in this village. We can offer then vocational training in Tailoring and Dressmaking, Cookery, Health Science and Business Education. The combination of these subjects give the girl child a rich inheritance and self reliability in their early marriages ! This research is proven and has worked in anumber of villages far away from us.

We will have a chance to address different kinds of assaults to women , children and more seriously the neglect and abandonment of the Aged and the Old. We will have a good centre of Youth Information. Early Sex and careless love is a giant ghost in this village coupled with uprising of alcoholism and drug addiction. True Love Wits is our Motto while dealing with such vices.

NB

It is my humble request to Mark Robert Wilson that may God use you mightily to help us finish this noble idea. May God bless you and your works.

If you feel blessed to share with us in this noble idea, Kindly contact me as soon as you can. The spread of the Gospel can be made easy through your concern. And if you feel like visiting this bush to see for yourself, then kindly arrange. We do not even need a notification, you can come anytime.

It was by miracle that mark was interrested to work in the middle East but God is purposely preparing him even by using Orucho Hills Centre and an Orphanage in Zimbabwe. In his blog, i read in one paragraph in his last post that his friends are telling him to be a social worker, I join the list of his friends too. He is so busy, he cannt communicate to us often but we understand all that.

God Bless

josephpeter