A church service was forced to end at California Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Nakuru West after elders and church members clashed over suspected financial mismanagement.
The congregants including church elders engaged in a physical exchange of blows inside the sanctuary as women and children screamed.
It is alleged that the tensions had been simmering at the church for weeks, with some of the congregants demanding more accountability from the pastor, leading to the climax witnessed on Saturday.
Fight Involving Pastor Erupts Inside SDA Church During Service. Photo: Courtesy.
videos shared on the social media shows one of the church elders take to the main dias and claim that the pastor had taken them to the local administration demanding their arrests.
This was after it emerged that the pastor went to the local chief urging for the arrests of the church members over an alleged murder attempt.
After hours of asking questions, things took a different twist when the elder could no longer control his anger and charged straight to where the man of the clock was seated following the accusations.
The pastor did not take it lightly and in retaliation, also engaged the elder in a physical brawl that soon attracted tens of other worshippers on the main dias.
They exchanged blows amongst themselves with chairs being broken.
As a result of the panic some members of the church were forced to exit through the exits of the incomplete building they were in.
