Kakamega evangelist: Why I preach the gospel to drunkards

Were it not for wine, humanity would have been lost, Evangelist Josephat Shijenje of Jesus Power of Nazareth Ministry, Kakamega, argues. He is on a holy mission to win stray souls for Christ. His style of doing so, however, is unconventional. He is a philanthropist, businessman, realist, and cleric, all rolled into one. At some point, however, the roles threaten to clash, but that doesn't faze him.

Shijenje is determined to return to the Lord his lost sheep, especially those given to the tipple. He is in the process of opening a church that, by design, will share an entrance with a restaurant that will serve beer, wine, and spirits in a five-storied building that he is constructing opposite the Kakamega Prison on the Kakamega- Kisumu Highway.
He intends to relocate his church, founded in 2015, to the new building that is about two kilometers away from the current location once it is completed. "To catch fish, you must set camp by the riverside," he says. Even as he argues that liquor is not the best of things, he credits the continuation of Adam's generation to wine.