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Moraa Gitaa blogs from the coastal city of Mombasa where she is based on the going ons in East Africa.

07/01/2007 - 2:27 p.m. GMT -- by Moraa Gitaa

Moraa Gitaa

It’s Africa’s Time!

Just the theme alone made one not want to miss out.

The excitement was palpable.
Most of us had been following the two men’s teachings on several television channels.

Call these men Flamboyant, Charismatic, Prosperity or even Clairvoyant Preachers, they draw the crowds.

Put these two men of God together at one conference and you have a dynamic synergy.

The venue was the Five Star Sarova WhiteSands Beach Hotel - Mombasa’s finest. The event was the Business People and Professionals Dinner organized by the Mombasa Pastor’s Fellowship and host Doctor Wilfred Lai of JCC (Jesus Celebration Centre) as a welcome for the two visiting preachers.

Though the cards were going for two thousand Kenya Shillings, they were sold out by Thursday the 14th of June the day of the dinner.
Approximately two thousand people attended the dinner.

Pastors, Doctors, Professors, Bishops, Administrators, Business Men and Women, Teachers. Stay-at-Home moms. Marketers. Finance Officers.
The list was endless. Some had even arrived from neighboring countries which were not on the jet-setting globe-trotting Pastors three-city tour itinerary.

Pastor Randy Morrison and Doctor Mensa Otabil had just arrived from Nairobi to Mombasa and would head on to Dar Es Salaam.
A couple of weeks back they had been holding a joint empowerment conference in Minneasota, USA at Pastor Randy’s Church ‘Speak the Word Church International’.
Ten years ago the two men realizing they had a common burden for Africa’s empowerment, joined forces and the result is this motivational and spiritually formidable duo.

Most Pastors in Mombasa concurred that holding such a dinner would encourage those who would otherwise not attend church to at least come and listen at a dinner.
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