Today if I were to sing a song for God, I would sing the Magnificat –the song that Mary sang after receiving the news that she would be the mother of Jesus.

My soul glorifies the Lord
My spirit rejoices in God my saviour…

The planning of the 34th General Assembly has been a tough task, since 2004.

And here we are, we have finished, but we have just begun the journey of the 34th General Assembly.

The theme Your sons and daughters shall prophesy is already what we have lived.

We were challenged in the Women’s and Men’s Pre-Assemblies, in speeches by guest speakers,
exposure programmes, testimonies from different movements and through commissions.

All these made other people’s experiences our experiences and our experience theirs.

We dreamt at night and we dreamt during the day. We saw visions. Dreams dreamt during the day and at night can be realised - and we hope to realise our dreams.

As we go out we have been renewed, regenerated and recalled to a new prophecy to rejoice and become the new Apostles, that we ourselves should be the change that we want to see.

I conclude by echoing the words of Karl Marx,

“Workers of the world unite, workers of the world unite, for in unity you lose nothing but the chains of slavery”

To which I say,

“Students of the world unite, students of the world unite, for in our unity we lose nothing but the chains of consumerism, racism, empire, environmental degradation, militarism…”

The long work has just begun, I believe that together we can make it and we will make it.

A lutta continua,the struggle continues!

Edwin Opiyo SCM Kenya-Testimony-Closing Worship WSCF 2008 General Assembly