41-YEAR OLD PASTOR RECORDS AN 'A' IN KCSE

Senior Pastor Mike Bitok-New InInternational Church

By JEMEDARI Mwanawakiume

A 41-year old Eldoret pastor was among the students who received the recently released results of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination.

Pastor Mike Bitok, the senior pastor at New International Church, Eldoret, scored an impressive mean grade of A with an aggregate of 81 points.

His congregation was impressed by the example modeled by their pastor who never got the privilege to go to school.
"I was not privileged to go to school because my mother was married to an elderly man as a sixth wife. The man did not attach great importance to education so I ended up in the streets of Eldoret as an urchin," Bitok was quoted by the Standard.

Pastor Bitok registered as a private student for the national exams to challenge himself and prove to the young generation that anything was possible.
The father of two also sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination in 2011 and scored an exemplary 396 marks.