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BUSINESS

with. Spirit when I was in high school. a stay-at-home mom and I was
One of my friends wanted to be running my business from home.
What is Afrika to you? baptized in the gifts and we went I started making sauces as a hobby
Afrika is vibrant, vivacious, full of and prayed for her. We took her to in 2000, and after some years my
color, with deep, deep treasure that the tennis courts around 7 pm, after husband suggested that I make a
has not even been experienced. dinner, and prayed and I’m the one business out of it. So in 2007, I
She has been downtrodden, she has that got baptized in the Holy Spirit. started the sauces business, with a
been suffocated and strangled over (Laughs) She received it years later. lot of foundational questions in my
the years, but I think the reason that My journey with the Lord has been mind. I was asking, “Who has God
has been done to her is that they spontaneous; it has nothing to do made me?” That became more
know that she has potential. She is with me desiring it. It was pap! intense in 2010 during my turning
beautiful and whoever or whatever “Have it! Let’s move on.” Then He point year. I wanted to hear God
she puts her mind to, she has the explains it later. I’d see very vivid for myself and that began a new
ability to birth with ease. Whatev- dreams and I would have visions journey for me. In 2011, however,
er seeds are put down, they grow. that would come to pass. The most I became rebellious, my husband
From north to south, east to west, vivid dream I had then was about and I were having a rough time
there is treasure everywhere. I think judgment day. I remember it was in our marriage and we decided
there is none that can be compared very bright and there were many that each one should do their own
to who Afrika is. people standing around a lake and thing; eventually, in 2012 we went
then this bright light came speaking. our separate ways. I moved back
You’ve gone through a pro- I would later recall these dreams to Kenya on my own, crying the
cess with God as an individual with understanding. whole way home. During that time
I was feeling very suicidal and very
When I was 17, one of the words
and as a business person, tell God spoke to me was, “I have depressed, but God was speaking
us about that journey. made you a vessel of honor and to me very clearly and urging me to
You guys are Msingi (foundation); I your instruction is to obey me.” dig deeper into His vision of love,
just love the fact that you are Msin- I was not behaving like a vessel which He helped me understand
gi. God did a serious restoration of of honor, I was not obeying the through 1 Corinthians 13. Once
my Msingi. I gave my life to Christ instructions that He had given I processed through it, He came
when I was 8, I rededicated it when me. I was doing what I call being back and said, “Okay, you’ve got
I was 9, then I rededicated again a schizophrenic Christian. I loved My vision of love, what do you see
when I was 12 (laughs). With every dancing but I loved being in church. as a perfect love?” Through this
altar call, I went forward. But I I did this from high school until He began to speak to me about my
guess the significant times I under- 2012. I was in church doing min- marriage and my husband. I prayed
stood the decision I had made was istry and prayers and I had this and asked Him to change me, and
when I was 8 and when I was 16. other lifestyle. I say that because of course, He began the process.
I was in Form 3 at 16 and it was a lot of Christians do that. They After a month of being in my room,
during Sunday chapel and there was have worldly friends and Christian my brother came to me and asked
one minister that came and simply friends and those lives do not come me to join him for a conference.
sang a song and it was nothing big. I together. 2010 was a turning point The pastor who was speaking there
just felt the Holy Spirit come upon year for me because I was tired of had presided over his wedding two
me and she (the minister) simply the dichotomy. What was playing in years prior and at that time had
said, “Is there anyone that wants to my mind was “What does it profit a given me a card with scriptures to
give their life to Christ?” and I was man that he should gain the whole read, one of which was 1 Corinthi-
the only one that stood up and I world but lose his soul?” ans 13. I had asked him to pray for
went forward and I gave my life to I started my business when I was my marriage and he had said, “Go
Christ - again. (Laughs). 19. Fashion was my thing; I studied and rest in the Lord.” That did not
That began the journey of Holy fashion design and marketing at sit well with me, but fast-forward
Spirit speaking to me. I used to the university in the UK, where I to that conference he walks in and
hear and see from the time I was met my husband. We got married says, “Today we are going to go
young, but I couldn’t conceptual- in 1997, while still at the university. into God’s rest.” Which is what I
ize it and even then I never talked At this point, I decided to make had heard God say that to me that
about it. I got baptized in the Holy my family priority, so I became morning. At some point, the pastor

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