Reverend Lucy Natasha, the woman who now commands stages and preaches with such power that her voice fills entire auditoriums, used to struggle with every single word. She was a stammerer.
In an interview on Daddy X Mo Podcast, Rev. Natasha revealed that from the age of one to nine, she could not communicate properly.
Every sentence was a battle, every word a struggle, and yet, she was born into a family of pastors.
Her mother preached, her grandmother preached, making her a third-generation minister. The irony was not lost on anyone. How could a child who could barely speak be called to ministry?
“I grew up as a stammerer,” Natasha revealed.
The turning point came when she was nine, when her mother, also a pastor, invited fellow ministers’ home one evening after a conference.
After dinner, the guests felt led to pray for the children.
“After dinner, they said they want to pray for the children. Because God is saying that there will be a prophet from this house,” she recalls.
When the siblings gathered, the visiting pastors pointed straight at Lucy. “She’s the one,” they declared.
“I was a stammerer, so I was the least expected. I could not even communicate effectively,” she explains.
What happened after that prayer, Rev. Natasha said, defied explanation.
“The first miracle that God did for me there, I realized after that prayer, something supernatural happened. I started to communicate effectively and normally. Imagine a child who has been a stammerer from the age of 1 to 9 years,” she said.
Her mother believed the prophecy and immediately began mentoring her.
They started with children’s crusades at Redeemed Gospel Church in Huruma under Bishop Arthur Kitonga.
Natasha went through Loreto Kiambu, where she was deeply involved in Christian Union, then studied public relations in college, still unsure about full-time ministry.
“I still didn’t know that I was going to do full-time ministry. Actually, the first thing I studied was PR, public relations.”
But the calling persisted. “If it’s your calling, it will keep calling you,” she noted.
In 2017, while touring U.S, God spoke clearly to her. “God spoke to me that Nairobi is the city of divine assignment,” she recalled.
She returned and launched Miracle Monday at 680 Hotel, an interdenominational service that drew Catholics, Protestants, and believers from all backgrounds.
When COVID-19 hit, the ministry shifted.
“God told me, now the ministry, you are going to move from Miracle Monday, and you are going to move now to compassion,” she explained.
The Natasha Hands of Compassion Foundation reached thousands during the pandemic.
After COVID ended in 2021, Natasha revealed that God gave the final instruction, for her to raise an altar in the city.
Oracle Empowerment Christian Church was born, celebrating five years in Nairobi’s CBD this past December, 2025, but launching was not that easy.
“The messages I was receiving of people telling me ‘Nairobi ina wenyewe.’ Some even asking me what I am coming to do in Nairobi,” she remembered the alleged intimidation attempts.
Looking back, she wants people to understand the journey, that she did not become a pastor in one day.
“I didn’t become a pastor in 1 day, but they don’t ask the story behind the glory. Many people who talk about Natasha today, they don’t know the process. They just see the glory. But they don’t know it has been a journey of so many years,” Natasha stated.
