Pastor Dorcas Rigathi Urges Churches To Rescue, Rehabilitate Drug Addicts

 

Pastor Dorcas Rigathi, the wife of the Deputy President, has called on churches to help those suffering from alcohol, drugs, and substance abuse.

Pastor Dorcas made these remarks on Wednesday during a meeting of 300 clergy at the Full Gospel Church of Kenya in Kitale, which was her first in Trans Nzoia County.


She gave the clergy the example of PEFA Church in Donholm, which opened its doors to those suffering from addictions, and 400 people have transformed their lives, becoming alcohol and drug free and trained in technical skills.

The church, led by Bishop Dr. Mophat Kilioba, was one of the first to engage in church community-based rehabilitation when Pastor Dorcas began calling on faith-based organisations to open their places of worship to the most 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.