

Perhaps, so that the children would not be corrupted.

The children were kept under lock, just going to school and church and never allowed to interact with other children or rather, ‘sinners’. They kept to themselves most of the time.

Most of those who turned born again in then often perceived themselves different and better than others, so they tend to turn up their noses at the ‘sinners’, segregating themselves. It was in the early days of the Pentecostal movement. In one of the many stories narrated at the meeting, One woman told of how many years back, grapevine had it that one of her neighbour’s children had allegedly had an incestuous relationship which resulted in a pregnancy.Īccording to her, the family led a rather excluded and detached life style.
