Pastors Jeremiah and Esther Karanja

After growing up in a denominational church, Pastor Jeremiah became a Christian as a teenager at age 17 after being confronted with the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Soon after he was filled with the Holy Spirit and joined a youth ministry in the church.  As a teenager, Pastor Jeremiah started sensing the call of God for ministry and began to travel locally with evangelistic teams.  These travels continued to expand as God opened doors to travel across the nation of Kenya and other parts of Africa.  Thousands of souls were brought into the kingdom through his ministry as God began to open doors to minister internationally.

Pastor Jeremiah is also a former school counselor, holds a masters degree in counseling and a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts. 

Pastor Jeremiah married to Pastor Esther who is an Associate Pastor at IGF.  They are blessed with three wonderful children:  Joseph, Saraphina and Stephen.  As a family they established International Gospel Fellowship Church in the year 2000.

Pastor Esther received Christ as a teenager in high school. From her teenage years she has been involved in ministry at various levels and capacities. She has traveled widely as an evangelist with church based teams to minister the Gospel to many parts of Kenya before she moved to the United States.

Besides being Pastor Jeremiah’s wife, Esther is also a mother and serves in the Pastoral Ministy at IGF as an Associate Pastor. Esther’s passion for the women at IGF is to see them walking in victory every day of their lives.