Gospel powerhouse Evelyn Wanjiru has delivered a tear-jerking testimony of her decade-long struggle with infertility, revealing how a routine ministry trip to the United States turned into the miracle she thought was impossible.
Speaking at the Kamutiini Priesthood Church on Sunday, the Mungu Mkuu hitmaker recounted the grueling emotional toll of 10 years of marriage without a child—and the dramatic moment her body finally gave her the answer she had been begging for.
The discovery began not with a doctor, but with a sense of extreme physical unease during a long-haul flight. Wanjiru described feeling “so bad” and nauseous as soon as she boarded the plane, oblivious to the fact that she was already carrying her son, Mshindi.
“So I entered the plane, and I was feeling so bad, and I was feeling like vomiting and so many things. I remember calling my husband and telling him how I was feeling. And then, as we were flying, I kept feeling bad, and there was a man who was seated next to me, and I was getting a weird smell. I don’t know, and if he spoke to me, I felt so bad,” she told the congregation.
Wanjiru credited the then-mandatory COVID-19 masks for providing a small measure of relief.
“Thanks to God that at that time the COVID-19 pandemic was there, so I had a mask, and I put it on,” she narrated.
Upon touching down in America, the symptoms only intensified. While her hosts tried to cater to her, Wanjiru found herself desperately craving traditional Kenyan staples.
“I was desiring pilau, ugali, and sukuma wiki. It was weird because I could not find those easily in America,” she recalled.
When a pastor’s wife suggested she might be pregnant, Wanjiru’s immediate reaction was a firm “No.”
Having faced 10 years of “angry” period cycles where she would ask her body, “What have you come here to do?”, she had convinced herself motherhood was not in her cards.
Driven by a quiet nudge, Wanjiru finally bought a pregnancy test in the US. In a moment of raw vulnerability, she described sitting in the bathroom too terrified to look at the strip, expecting yet another heartbreak.
“The devil had told me that the test would just be negative, so I had not focused on it, and I just went ahead to flush the toilet. But when I looked up, I saw two lines,” she said.
The revelation sent her into a physical collapse. “I started shaking, I fell down, and I was crying uncontrollably.”
In a surprising twist, Wanjiru revealed that her first instinct after sharing the news with her husband, Agundabweni Akweyu, and her mother was to leave the country immediately.
Fearing the harsh court of public opinion, the singer worried that if she stayed in the US, critics would speculate that the child was not her husband’s.
“I did not continue staying in America. I had to get a quick flight back because if I stayed there, they could have said that I got the pregnancy from America,” she explained.
Wanjiru’s testimony has since gone viral, serving as a beacon of hope for thousands of couples facing their own “waiting” seasons.
Today, the singer is a proud mother, proving that even after a decade of silence, a miracle can still find its way home.
