Atlanta-Based Kenyan Pastor Gifts 16-year-old Daughter Brand New Mercedes Benz on Her Birthday

We are our own worst enemies. We are quick to critique. We pull each other down, we never squad up like other communities.

True, but it's new to her. Why is this news though? Lifestyles are different here and we all accept it and live it.

@ Kithoi. Must be a slow day at Mwakilishi. The kind of "news" that sometimes get reported on Mwakilishi leaves a lot to be desired. I do appreciate their reporting but once in a while a story appears and you wonder whether the editor was high with cannabis.

The pastor write many good books and they sell very well! That is enough source of income to buy his little baby girl a cool ride! Is a pastor’s child not supposed to have something nice; like a Mercedes Benz car!? No wonder you are still a “Guest” in your own life! Our Heavenly Father provides to all our spiritual and material needs! He has blessed His servant here and what you see is the goodness of the Lord! Amen!

Where two or three are gathered in the name of the Lord, the spirit of the Lord is present among them regardless of how they got there to worship! Wacha maneno mingi!

Where is it all over the world you get surprises every day of a 16 year old getting bought a Benz by her kind parents @sue? Shinda yako ni wivu tu! I beseech you in the name of God to clean your tainted heart! Stop competing with a child! Wewe Mbaya sana!

Matthew 6:1-4.....BUT WHEN YOU GIVE, DO NOT LET YOUR LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT YOUR RIGHT HAND IS DOING, so that YOUR GIVING MAY BE IN SECRET....and your FATHER WHO SEES IN SECRET WILL REWARD YOU.....

Was it wise to show the public this? No. The daughter will be bulled that she is driving a Mercedes bought with Sadaka money.

While at it, advised the little one that show-off is not God's way of life.....and that when she gets of age, she should do as the Bible says...i.e.

(Matthew 6:1-4.....BUT WHEN YOU GIVE, DO NOT LET YOUR LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT YOUR RIGHT HAND IS DOING, so that YOUR GIVING MAY BE IN SECRET....and your FATHER WHO SEES IN SECRET WILL REWARD YOU.....

I was waiting for your mature comment here @maxiley and here you are! We should learn to appreciate and respect other people’s choices. The father should not apologize fir a good gesture to his young daughter! He bought the car out of the goodness of his pure heart! He is a very good father and no one should challenge that fact!

Maxiley, when you and others are sitting, whiling away time in the family room & some terrible odor suddenly wafts in the room & one guy jumps to his feet to deny he didn’t do it even before he’s been accused, jua kuna mambo. Huyo jamaa huwa ni yeye ameshuta ...... huyu Daktari hapa anajishuku sana kumaanisha kwamba kunacho ambacho hakikufanya vizuri ama halikuambatana na maadili ambayo amekuwa akiyahubiri. Panapo moshi jua pana moto pia

I’m sure the pastor has already given to the needy people! Please don’t make the pastor and his family feel bad about a kind gesture to his daughter! Charity begins at home, and the rest is just too off! How many needy people have you helped @thankful? Please walk the talk and let the pastor’s family be!

Who in this world does not depend on the pockets of others including you @thankful! I hate when people like you make such sweeping statements like you own this pastor! Wewe umelaniwa na Shetani amekuteka nyara!

Your good thoughts and comments are all mine! We should always congratulate those parents who dare to do good things for their children! The parents went all out to make the little girl happy! We should all celebrate her birthday without pouring venom on her kind parents!

I doubt that there is jealousy. It's just that there is no need to advertise. I know nothing about Kenyans living in other countries but I know that for Kenyans living in the US, this really is nothing to tangaza much less to cause amazement. It seems more geared to amaze those in Kenya hence the need to stress the brand new Mercedes(it's not) which is questionable. Kwani anataka pongezi for taking care of his child. It is his duty. It's always good when a Kenyan is making it here as many are but you can live well quietly.

It appears that you read it @leo omondi-By all accounts,or definition,this story is actually news.Over 30comments underscore this fact. It may not be news for you,but aheck big news to someone else.
When I get a "News" paper,I dont read every article...

Now even luo nyanza got five sense to throw at the pastor’s family! Maybe the pastor should have bought ten small omena duoko fiss to make you petty happy @omomdi! Why are you hurting over another man’s money?

@omondi - we give bigly in the kikuyu land! The pastor is just carrying on the good tradition of giving!

The only thing we don’t do is gift your dead brother’s wife to the little brother after the older brother passes on! We have enough women for every kikuyu man to marry! We call that getting a “muhiki”!

Please don’t lecture a kikuyu how to offer a good gift! It is in our blood to give! It is in the pastor’s blood to give good things! And that will never change because he is a blessed man of God! He knows better!

There is nothing wrong with buying all members of your families a car for all we care, JUST DON’T BROADCAST IT TO THE PUBLIC! Not sure of any value from doing so, that’s all.

Wow @seneca! Surely this luo old women never disappoints when it comes to taking a swipe at a kikuyu family!

Slow down old lady, remember Raila can’t become a president without the larger kikuyu community! The tyranny of numbers works!

And what if the pastor is Mwakilishi’s village mate? I don’t think the two ever survived on mediocre omena meal with a small piece of meat hang in a smoky grass hut to point ugali on.

And when are you gonna write your own books @ seneca!? Wacha omela wivu!

Oh, 3 daughters and 3 cars in the past?? Why didn't you broadcast for all and sundry....or I missed it on Mwakilishi?
Please educate this ignorant pastor who seems to put his foot where he shouldn't..

Stop the illusions of your mediocre state of mind! You don’t know nothing!

Those who are hungry can get a job and work hard to fill their stomaches. You are just looking at this family from a small thin window!

No one said you should enjoy your fruits in the darkness so that others don’t see what you are eating!

Kwenda tafuta kazi and nunulia mtoto yako whatever you wish without telling others how to live their lives! Wacha ukorofi na maneno mingi Tupi!

Hata huko maasailand tunakula nyama in the open outside to show the lazy morans they need to work harder to catch the meat! The pastor is a good Moran!

Well, you did not send your post to Mwakilishi to be published. You must have also been ashamed for buying your daughter a lollipop for her sweet sixteen! A hamburger would have been better if you asked me! The pastor posted his gift to mwakilishi to teacher other fathers the importance of buying good things to your children; not just a lollipop unless that is all you could afford!

People express themselves in many different ways! Just like you are expressing yourself with so many opinion oriented definitions of humility, etc! The father chose to please his daughter in this forum! He never invited comments from any body! And that is his business and nobody should say anything negative about how the pastor expressed his joy!

@ Santiago, all Kenyans don’t act the way you have read here! I didn’t want to assume where you come from, but I just want to say that most of Kenyans living in America are very bitter and jealous of each other’s progress and blessings.

For whatever reason, I do not really know! Most those saying bad things are those below 16 years old because they are jealous their age mate got a better car from the parents! Kids always act funny and strange!

Please feel free to come visit Kenya so you can see the true Kenyans, and our beautiful national parks! I will probably gonna get a hit here for telling you the truth about those bitter Kenyans in America! They are really demonic Kenyans in America as you have read here! The Devil have taken hold on them to act foolish.

Please watch this space to see how Wachera, mugikuyu and mundumugo, plus Otieno will react to my comment! But I don’t mind them hitting at me hard because they are below 16 years of age and they don’t know any better. All the reason(s) for them to attack a pastor’s beautiful child! Hope God can open their eyes to see their own soul and behave better!