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From househelp to ordained minister

Lucy Wangunjiri with her husband: Photo; Courtesy

Lucy Wangunjiri was barely 15 when her father chased her away, with no where else to go to, she got a job as a domestic worker. She speaks to us on rebuilding her relationship with her dad and finding her true purpose.

Her life is a collage of the good, the ugly, the mundane and the bad. That does not so much frighten her as it does put a smile on her face. “I was born an eagle and not a chicken,” she says, then reiterates countless times.

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