Church elders from the Seventh Day Adventist church have been challenged to lead by example following dissatisfaction from the public on their conduct.
Speaking on Wednesday at a local church in Tente, Nyamira, Pastor Samuel Mokaya said the conference had received a number of misconduct complaints from some of the worshippers.
He warned those who may be implicated of any scandal, besides promising to hold a common meeting to discuss some of the challenges the church was understandably going through.
“We have been receiving complaints on some of the elders from different churches and the report isn’t pleasing. Elders should lead by example by adhering to the church’s doctrines. Whoever may be implicated will face the disciplinary committee of the conference,” he said.
According to him, the cases in which some of the elders were adversely mentioned included immorality, fraud and corruption which were contrary to the church’s teachings.
“Some of the elders are said to be spearheading immorality in the church while some are said to be engaging in corrupt deals. The trend is really worrying and the habit ought to stop as soon as possible,” he said.
This comes a moment after a section of church followers from some parts of the conference threatened to stop giving contributions to churches based on ‘uncouth’ conduct of the elders.