VIDEO: Sunday Service At Pastor Nganga’s Church-Powerful Sermon
A full service at Neno Evangelism church with Pastor James Nganga. For one,pastor Nganga is very gifted with musical instruments and in this service ,one will understand why people still go to his church because he preaches with a lot of anointing.Before the drama,he makes a lot of sense.
Man of conflict? A peep into the world of Nenoโs Pastor Ngโangโa
Some worshippers at Neno Evangelical Ministries on Monday threatened to start a private criminal case against the churchโs founder, Mr James Ngโangโa, but given his brush with the law, the man of cloth will mostly not be his losing any sleep.
Pastor Ngโangโa has been in and out of courts many times, and spent more than two decades in jail.
HARDCORE CRIME
Though details he has been giving in recorded interviews vary, his first stint in jail was in 1972 when he was 18 years old. He was sentenced to a six-month jail term for fighting, as he told a local radio station on August 13.
But in a documentary published last year by Sasa TV, a television station owned by his church, Pastor Ngโangโa said he was first jailed in 1968, when he was supposedly only 14 โ having been born in Subukua, Nakuru County, in 1954.
During his first incarceration, he told the radio station, he was recruited into hardcore crime.
โThen for the next 20 years, I was in and out of prisons. For 20 years, between 1972 to 1992, only thrice did I celebrate Christmas as a free man,โ he said.
In the documentary by his churchโs TV station, he said that he got โborn againโ during his time in prison, thanks to a man who came to minister to prisoners.
He views the conversion as the turning point to where he is today โ a man who calls himself โChief General Commanderโ and โDaktari Number Oneโ.
Having seen the light, he started off as a handcart pusher and street preacher in Mombasa. With time, he grew in ministry then moved to Nairobi to establish his church. It is during his time at the Nairobi church that Pastor Ngโangโa, once a herdsboy in Nyandarua, expanded his flock and also his ego.
‘EXORCISE DEMONS’
One church documentary says his church is rooted on the 13th verse in the 6th chapter of the Biblical book of Mark that says: โThey drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.โ
A core part of his sermons is the “exorcising” of demons from believers, who are often talking back through the โpossessedโ person.
In the process of casting out demons, the pastor is often seen slapping the believer. The โvictimsโ of the demonic possession will typically be held firmly on the ground by the pastor, sometimes aided by ushers.
With that anti-demon promise and the following it earned him, Pastor Ngโangโa has now become an unapologetic church head who shoots from the hip, caring less about where his words land and what effect they have. The outburst that led to his male flock threatening to take him to court was a threat that he would make their โminusculeโ private parts disappear because the men were leaking out information about his church.
It irked the men to the extent that they wrote a letter to Pastor Ngโangโa through Otieno and Amisi Advocates, protesting the abusive language against them and demanding that he publishes a newspaper apology to all male members of Neno.
The lawyers stated that if Pastor Ngโangโa could not apologise in two days, โOur further instructions are to commence private criminal prosecution against you โฆ and/or civil proceedings for general damages for defamationโ.
DISCPLINARY STEPS
The Saturday Nationย reached out to the law firm for an update on whether Pastor Ngโangโa had responded to the demand letter. The advocate said he would get back after consulting with his clients and had not done so by the time of going to press.
One man who has felt the weight of Pastor Ngโangโaโs words is Robert Wafula, who was until recently one of Nenoโs three bishops before he quit to start his own ministry in Mombasa.
Pastor Wafula made the decision to leave after Pastor Ngโangโaโs viral outburst in which he threw jibes at the bishops in his church, claiming they were disrespectful to his wife.
Pastor Wafula told theย Saturday Nationย that the message hit him hard, forcing him to sever ties with a man with whom he had been friends for over 20 years.
โEven when correcting or punishing a child, you must explain to him or her why you have taken the disciplinary steps. To date, I donโt know what wrong I ever committed,โ he said.
Four months later, Bishop Wafula is at peace after starting Shalom Miracle Church. He leads his flock every Sunday at Tononoka Social Hall.
โI resigned after I saw the video which I believe was directed to me. It was a difficult decision. He has never contacted me and neither have I,โ he said.
‘HEALED CANCER’
Pastor Ngโangโaโs wife, the subject of the preacherโs harangue, has also had an eventful marriage since their wedding in 2012 (the second marriage of Pastor Ngโangโa, whose first wife died leaving him with four children).
Three years ago, the couple had an ugly exchange at a family court in Nairobi as the wife wanted out. The matter appears to have been settled as Pastor Ngโangโa said in the radio interview that they have a six-month-old child, the third with her, โand plan to get moreโ.
To his faithful, Pastor Ngโangโa is a misunderstood man. One such follower, whom we will call Noah, sat with theย Saturday Nationย in Nairobi on Thursday.
โThese are matters of the spirit. If you are not on the same spirit level as he is, your human body may perceive some things as wrong while they arenโt,โ said Noah.
He further posed: โWhy have you journalists not reported about the way he healed cancer that was plaguing a man in Ukambani??โ
All said about his temperament, Pastor Ngโangโa says he will not change. He says he acts tough because his ministry is all about fighting evil.
โThe problem you guys have is to assume that all people are kind. This work Iโm doing, how many have done it and died?โ he asked at the radio interview.
Reporting by Elvis Ondieki, Winnie Atieno and Doreen Wamugunda
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VIDEO: Sunday Service At Pastor Nganga’s Church-Powerful Sermon
When you control the hearts of the weak, the intellect and sex lives of the parishioners or use power to harm the sheep this becomes nothing more than abuse.
Whenever power is used to abuse, exploit, wound the vounerable perishiners trust is broken. The preacher is using the sheep as food rather than feeding the sheep. Those with knowledge and skill are assumed that their character is trustworthy but not so with this case.
By the virtue of this pastors character he is assumed to be trustworthy but he betrays the character of his calling by his actions and words.
A total abuse of power to deceive the self, others, and the cohorsion of others for the sake of greed. He has justified his deception and numbed his conscience like the way Narcotics numb our reality. He know what he is doing but calls it a blessing. There is nothing new under the sun.