"MARTYRDOM
OF BROTHER THOMAS OUNDO?"
"And he said, What have you done? The
voice of your 
brother's blood cries to me from the
ground."
Lloyd Goodwin told us that
Brother Oundo was the first martyr in the Body
of Christ for our day. He said that there were some people who did not like
it because he was preaching the true gospel and that is why they killed
him. He also said that he died for the truth that he was preaching. But because God does not make mistakes, then God had allowed it to
happen. He said that God wanted someone else to be the pastor of that
church so he allowed Brother Oundo to be martyred.
He said that he (Lloyd Goodwin) was the last person he talked to. He was on his
way home from a pay phone after talking to him and was murdered shortly
thereafter.
Later, Goodwin said,
"he had been shot by accident and they shot the wrong man." Now what
I'm wondering is:
"Was it God's will and he was a martyr or was he shot by accident?"
Or could it have been planned? Does anyone know?
Picture to
the left: (" A
member of the Reverend Oundo's congregation grieves
over the pastor's death yesterday.")
Picture by YAHYA MONMED
ARTICLE FROM THE DAILY NATION -
Pastor found dead with bullet wounds
By IRUNGU
NDIRANGO
A bullet-riddled body of a
The body of the Reverend Thomas Oundo of the Gospel Assemblies Church based at the former
Shan Cinema Hall, Nairobi, was found in his small light-blue Datsun car about 15 Kilometers from Nairobi, just before Kinoo Market on the Nairobi-Naivasha
road.
The body had many gunshot wounds in the head
and other parts. It had slumped into the driver's seat, but his foot rested on
the accelerator.
The car seemed to have veered off the road
and ploughed through grass, before it slammed into a hedge damaging its front
bumper and grilles.
People in the neighborhood said they heard
heavy gunfire at about
The Reverend Oundo
died barely three kilometers from his comfortable storeyed
home, where his wife and two children were waiting for him.
It is believed that his killers waylaid him
near the turn off to the murram road leading to the
quiet suburb where he has been living.
Mr. Joseph Muthubi,
an employee of Kenya Breweries said, the pastor had
taken his third child to his home in Lavington,
Yesterday morning, Mr. Muthubi,
took the pastor's child and his own children to
The Rev Oundo had
spent the whole of Sunday preaching at Shan Cinema.
Policemen found many bullet holes in the
car's body. There was fresh gunpowder on the left headrest. A policeman said
the powder probably dropped there when the killer fired from point blank.
The policemen said the killer may have fired
at the car while it was moving. The driver was hit and the
car
swerved and the assailant followed it up to the grass and fired again from
close range.
Mrs. Oundo
was devastated. All she could say was: "I wonder who could have killed Tom
and why. Tom was such a nice man."
She would not answer any more questions.
This is an article that
Lloyd Goodwin had prepared to give to the people to show them how it was God's
will that Thomas Oundo was murdered. It was eerie
how he used the Bible and scriptures to prove everything he wanted us to
believe. There was a gallon of truth tainted by a cup of error.
ON THE MARTYRDOM OF OUR PRECIOUS BROTHER THOMAS OUNDO
Ever since the day that
Cain slew Abel, the conflict on earth between good and evil has been a sore
problem to the saints. In every age the righteous have been hated and
persecuted, while the unrighteous have appeared to defy God with impunity. The
Lord's people, for the most part, have been poor in this world's goods, whereas
the wicked in their temporal prosperity have flourished like the
There can be no failure
with God. "God is not a man, that He should lie,
neither the Son of man, that He should repent; hath He said and shall He not do
it? Or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?" Num. 23:19. All
will be accomplished. The promise made to His own
beloved people to come for them and take them from hence to glory will not
fail. He will surely come and gather them in His own presence. The solemn words
spoken to the nations of the earth by the different prophets will also not
fail. "Come near, ye nations,, to bear; and
hearken ye people; let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and
all things that come forth of it. For the Indignation of the Lord is upon all
nations, and His fury upon all armies; He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter." Isa. 34:1,2. Nor will that day
fail in which "the lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness
of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted." Isa. 2:11. The day in which He is manifested, when His
glory shall cover the heavens and His feet will stand again upon this earth,
will surely come. His kingdom will not fall, nor all the promised events
connected with the end of the age and the consummation.
In these dark and trying
times how well it is to remember that He is on the throne, the throne which
cannot be shaken, and that He will not fail in doing all He has spoken and
promised. "Seek ye out of the book of the Lord
and read: Not "one of these shall fail." lsa.
34:16. In believing, blessed anticipation, we can look
on to the glory-time when His Word and His will is accomplished, when through
the coming of the Prince of Peace, righteousness and peace comes at last. And
while we wait for the supreme and blessed moment when His promise to us is
accomplished, we trust Him, walking in His fellowship and daily find afresh,
that He does not fail to sustain and keep us in all our ways.
Ye
fearful saints fresh courage take
The
clouds ye so much dread,
Are
big with mercy and shall break
In blessings o'er your head.
