During the ongoing services at Jubilee Christian Church to commemorate the life of Bishop Allan Kiuna, his co-founder and widow Rev. Kathy Kiuna recounted the poignant moments before his passing.
Speaking to the congregation at the church’s headquarters in Parklands on Sunday, Rev. Kiuna expressed gratitude for the tremendous support they had received. She shared how she and her family had hoped for Bishop Kiuna to recover from his illness, but he had come to accept his fate and expressed a desire “to go home.”
“When my best friend got to the end of the road, he kept saying, I want to go home. We kept countering it, refusing, rejecting it with everything in us. And when he’d say, ‘I want to get home’, we would say, no. He’d say, no. Stop,” Rev Kiuna said.
She continued to describe how she and her family tried to convince him that he was already home, but he wanted to go to be with the Lord in heaven.
“We would say, you’re already home, you don’t need to say such things. And then he would say, they are coming (the angels)… We would say, chase them away. We would tell them, go back. Why are you coming? Go back. And I couldn’t imagine life without him,” Rev Kiuna said.
She went ahead to say that she thought that if there was anyone who was going to die, then it would be her because it is the Bishop who had the vision for JCC, not her.
“God, you have such a sense of humor. I thought you’d rather take me and keep him. Because he has the vision. He knows where we are going. He knows all these I go back to the scripture I’m standing on. 2 Chronicles 20:12,” Rev Kiuna said.
The verse reads: “O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
She expressed uncertainty about the church’s future direction but emphasized relying on this verse.
A few weeks before Bishop Kiuna’s passing, during a women’s conference, Kathy had shared that she never anticipated facing such a difficult time as the caregiver of her husband.
She emphasized her reliance on faith to navigate this season.
Bishop Kiuna and Rev. Kathy Kiuna started their church from humble beginnings and grew it into a mega-church.
Bishop Kiuna passed away at the age of 57.
