| By Justin Emedot,
:: 15-11-2011
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Pastor Oscar Muriu of Nairobi Chapel has advised UCU students to make decisions carefully at this point in their lives.
He said this during this semester’s Mission Week held between 23 to 30 October at the Bishop Tucker campus, where he was chief missioner.
“It’s at ages between 20 and 28 years, where most of you lie, that most people make the most important decisions that they live with for the rest of their lives,” Oscar Muriu said.
The decisions include marrying, the career path they follow, and the values they live by and could die for, the status in life they aim for.
Muriu said no great man or woman ever came out of filling their stomachs, but from something that was greater than that. He said further that the stomach is too small to live for, referring to those whose goal in life is to be wealthy.
The theme at the mission week was “Seek first Gods kingdom and his righteousness” as stated in the Gospel of Matthew 6:33.
Pastor Muriu made his most important decision, accepting Christ, three months before graduating at New Delhi University in India. Before that, his ambition was to be wealthy and live a privileged life, and like most of his friends, he led a reckless life and didn’t believe in Jesus. He enjoyed arguing with Christians to undermine their faith.
But his encounter with God came as a result of falling in love with a Christian girl. But they could never be because he was not a Christian. Although he didn’t end up with her, he accepted Christ in Feb 1983 while a final-year student at the university, and changed careers from being a zoologist to a minister, and has been preaching from 1983.
He is married to Beatrice Wambui and they have 4 daughters: Chiru, 17, Chiku, 15, Wanja, 13, and an adopted daughter Janelle, 6.
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