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How a burial heralded birth of iconic PCEA church

PCEA Ruiru Town Church. (Courtesy)

Grief-stricken mourners anxiously waited for the body of their loved one to arrive in the mud-walled and grass-thatched colonial-era chapel. This was their first Christian funeral service. The year was 1967.

This was a unique ceremony. The dead woman was among the first indigenous people to embrace Christianity at the onset of colonial rule in Kenya.

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