Abstract

This paper discusses the state of the Church in Kenya in 2025 based on categorizations defined by a similar survey in 2005. Taken in a country where public opinion, riding on many negative manifestations of the last five years (a number of occultic groups have been called out and investigated and churches are under pressure not to allow discussions and donations from political leaders, seen as beneficiaries of corruption). The data used was gathered in the month of June 2025, via a fast-paced two-week survey process, in which CORAT Africa gathered views from the NCCK’s 120 Executive Committee members arranged in five caucus groups, as outlined in the paper below. Their views were then analysed qualitatively and shared at the main executive Committee for input and validation. It reveals two main things. Firstly, that the Church’s activity is being greatly swayed by hunger for money, in other terms known as the commercialization of the gospel. Secondly, that despite significant setbacks with regard to evangelism, theology, identity and credibility, the greater Church has in the last 20 years held its ground to carry its mission work forward. It recommends that deliberate efforts to generate resources from their vast properties and to prioritize evangelism, effective wholistic nurture of members—especially children, youth and persons with disability, the training of sound doctrine ministers and to retain Christ centeredness as the only identity of true Churches. These would in turn restore dwindling credibility and strengthen wholistic missions work.