Rev. Kathy Kiuna has opened up about the difficult moments leading up to the death of her husband, Bishop Allan Kiuna.
During a church service at their Jubilee Christian Church, Rev Kiuna thanked everyone for their overwhelming support and went on to explain how she and her family had hoped he would recover from his illness. However, the Bishop knew his time had come and said he wanted "to go home."
“When my best friend got to the end of the road, he kept saying, I want to go home. We kept countering it, refusing, rejecting it with everything in us. And when he'd say, ‘I want to get home’, we would say, no. He'd say, no. Stop,” Rev Kiuna said.
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She went on to relate how she and her family attempted to persuade him that he was already home, but he preferred to go to be with the Lord in heaven.
“We would say, you're already home, you don't need to say such things. And then he would say, they are coming (the angels)… We would say, chase them away. We would tell them, go back. Why are you coming? Go back. And I couldn't imagine life without him,” Rev Kiuna said.
She went on to claim that she believed that if anybody were going to die, it would be her because the Bishop, not her, had the vision for JCC.
“God, you have such a sense of humor. I thought you'd rather take me and keep him. Because he has the vision. He knows where we are going. He knows all these I go back to the scripture I'm standing on. 2 Chronicles 20:12,” Rev Kiuna said.
The passage reads, "O our God, will you not execute judgement on them?" We are unable to stop this massive horde that is approaching us. We don't know what to do, but our focus is on you."
She stated that she does not know what route the church would follow but is relying on the passage.
Kathy had stated at a women's conference a few weeks before Bishop Kiuna's death that she had never envisaged herself going through the tough period she was going through as her husband's carer.
