ABOUT

Archdeacon Kago served as the second Provincial Secretary of the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) since it was establishment and played a key role in planting of many Anglican Churches in Kenya, as well as being the second Provincial Secretary. Archdeacon Kago and his wife Grace Kago live at Kamwangi where he was born on December 26, 1929, to his parents Wang’ang’a wa Kaguchu and Sarah Wanjiru.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Educational background:

His maternal grandparents came from Thogoto area in Kabete in Ndeiya and his father was born in Kamwangi. His father used to visit Ndiiya and while there witnessed the kind of development the Church of Scotland Mission was making there and was impressed with what he saw. His father took him to school there at the age of six or seven years old. Later, in January of 1936, he attended Shimbishi Independent Pentecostal Church School, present day Gatei Primary School in Gatundu.

His father’s friends from the Gospel Missionary Society (GMS, later PCEA) influenced his admission to “Kwa Mwaura wa Ndimi”, which later was called “Kwa Mbari ya Mwihia” and today called “Mukuyu-ini Primary School”. From there he was transferred to Githaruru in Kiamwangi at Gatundu South, also a GMS school. He studied there up-to Standard four and then went to Kambui Intermediate School for four years until 1945 when he did his Common Entrance Examination and passed. He and the late Mwaura wa Ndoge were the only two people from Kamwangi who passed the examination. Mwaura was admitted to High School at Kagumo, but he did not qualify for admission to High School and instead went to Nairobi to seek employment in 1946.

Early Employment:

In 1948 he was offered employment as a Teacher at Kamunyaka Primary School, an Independent Church School and shortly after at a Church Missionary Society (CMS) school called Gwakinyahwe (at Trasha Primary School) where he was employed as a headmaster.

Becoming a Christian:

On February 21^st, 1949, a GMS Pastor from Nakuru called Pastor Canon Elijah Gachanja visited Trasha. He was the first person in Kenya to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal savior in 1936 after some people from Uganda preached the Gospel to him. He arrived on a Saturday and another group of people from Murang’a, also of the REVIVAL BRETHREN group arrived the following day and when they preached the Gospel, he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Lord of his life. On the previous day, on Saturday, another lady had accepted the Lord, which made the two of us.

Cost of becoming a Christian:

Shortly thereafter, school children started to get saved and some parents decided the Gospel was spoiling their children and told him to either stop preaching salvation or that they would discontinue him from their school. He opted to move from the school instead of denouncing his salvation and returned home to Kamwangi. When he arrived at Kamwangi from Trasha, his parents became truly angry also when he started preaching and because without employment there was no way for them to get money.

In August 1949, the Revivalists Group convened a Convention at Mother Church Kabete, which he attended by walking all the way from Kamwangi to Mother Church Kabete and during the Convention he testified how he was released from work because he was saved. A brother in Christ told him told him after the Convention both he and that brother would go to Kijabe to meet a Missionary there in charge of teachers, who would offer him employment. After the convention he decided to travel to Kijabe by train to meet the missionary.

He got onto the train and travelled from Kabete arriving at Uplands Station at 5.00PM in the afternoon. The brother who had promised he would wait for me there was nowhere to be seen and did not turn up. When the train left and I was stranded, I heard a group of people praising and went where they were and started praising together with them. It was a group of nine people comprising of three young ladies, three old mothers and three men. After they stopped praising, they asked for his testimony and afterwards explained that Timothy, the person who had promised to take him to Kijabe  lies and they promised to help me.  That lady who offered to help was his future mother-in-law. His wife was one of the three ladies praising then and the other two are known to the Revival movement people as Kabui Hosseah and Florence Kabui and they took me to Kijabe the following day. When we got to Kijabe, the brother who told me he would take me to the missionary was there and I was employed.