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Hallo family…it’s been a minute
Allow us reintroduce ourselves with our updated “This is Us” photo.
We were very long over due for an updated family photo, especially since becoming a family of 5😊. How is it almost 9 months already since baby Kai joined us. It feels like yesterday when we announced her arrival and now she is a whole strong willed missy with a personality of her own(she is currently learning how to stand!😀- already?!).
She has carved out her place in the crowd of 2 older siblings and she has captivated everyone’s heart..we all can’t resist her charm😀.
Over the past 9 months, we made a conscious decision to step back from social media to focus on our growing family and careers. This decision has been incredibly rewarding - much more needed than we anticipated. It has provided so much needed perspective; and so much has changed, as you will notice in our content moving forward.
Someone recently mentioned that with every child, a new version of you is birthed and we couldn’t agree more, especially during this time. We can literally see how each of our 3 babies has changed us as individuals and as a couple.
We have missed you our YouTube fam and we can’t wait to get back to normal programming 👇.
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**ANNOUNCEMENT**
Hey fam 👋We hope this finds you well 🤗. This is to let you know that we will not be releasing a YouTube video this week and the next few weeks as we take off time to go through the new born season. We hope to be back mid- February.
In the meantime do catch up with our previous episodes. See you when we return 🥳🥳😘😍
The Ekimas
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🌹HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🥳
We each make an extra year today 😍😍. 6 birthdays together later and I am still not used to the fact that we share a birthday. Isn’t this what they call serendipity ? 😅This day is always a reminder that the lord thought of our marriage and where we are today when he formed us.
It is an honor doing life together but most importantly pursuing purpose together. I can’t wait to see the things God will do in us and through us as the years go by.
I was always freaked out by the idea of turning 30. But today as I join you on the 3rd floor, I reflect about where my life is and I am so greatful. Top of the list of the things I’m grateful for is the stable life we have created in the beautiful years God has put us together this far. For our little growing family and for the love he has allowed us share in all its forms.
Happy birthday to us and to many more years of shinning pursuing God together 🥂🥂🍾
Shoot location 🎥: @7thavenuestudio
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Slides 2 is how we are entering into the new week 🤩😄.
📍 Here is our Meditation for the week ☀️👇
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
✨Matthew 5:14-16 NIV ✨.
Happy new week fam 😍❤️.
Meanwhile how cool is our new YouTube set at @legacyheightsbugolobi which also happens to be the location for these photos. If you haven’t already, subscribe and check out our recent YouTube upload on our channel: The Ekimas.
New Videos will be airing every Friday of the week. Don’t miss catching them
#theekimas#marriageworks#christianinfluencers#kingdommarriages#explorepage
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5 years ago, exactly a month after our wedding we were approached by an older couple inviting us to join a marrieds fellowship that they were apart of. We were young and very naive about the institution but also caught up in the honey moon bliss of thinking that we didn’t need anybody but ourselves and the love we had for each other to do marriage.
We reluctantly accepted the invite and started attending this fellowship that happened weekly. You wouldn’t believe If we told that that is what later became the saving of our marriage that we never knew we needed.
Looking back 5 years later, everything we learnt and know today was because of that community. We were mentored, taught and held accountable by people that shared our value system.
Most important we learnt alot from experiences, lessons, mistakes of those that had gone a head of us. That community is the reason we are as intentional and purposeful as we are about our marriage today.
This year, the lord showed us just how blessed we were to belong to such a community, and instructed us to step forward and offer the same opportunity that was offered to us years ago to members of our online community who are seeking to grow in their marriages but not sure how or where to start. To offer a real and vulnerable space for growth & mentorship beyond social media, to other couples who may or might not know that they need a community to help them navigate life’s ups & down as they do marriage. A community to remind them that happy fulfilled godly marriages are possible if both parties put in the work.
This is why we are starting @after_the_vow an offline community of married and soon to be married couples, a community that will offer mentorship, teachings, fun filled engagements to ignite & rekindle the spark in your marriage that may be lost. We can’t wait to see the great things God will do in this community.
📌To be apart of this community, Dm us or whatsapp the number on the flier for details.
Ps: We intend to have few numbers and we will close once the required number is reached, on first come first serve basis.
See you at the Launch on 23rd September 2023 🥳🥳🥂.
#marriage#marriedscommunity
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Baby no.3 on the way 🥹🥳😀🎉😭
We are excited to share with you fam that our little family will be growing from 4 to 5 soon 🥹😍. It is quite emotional and exciting… the thought of being parents of 3 is 🤯 yet we feel soooo honored and elated.
Keep us in your prayers as we walk this new chapter of our lives. We know that He who started the great work in us will bring it to accomplishment. We can’t wait for Che & Amari to meet their little brother/sister. We are slowly introducing them to the idea of them having a sibling soon and they are super excited. Amari carried stickers to hospital which she was putting on my tummy during the scan for the baby 😅🥹🥹 when we pray with them they remember to pray for the “baby in the stomach too” - a sign that it is becoming a reality to them. It is beautiful to watch them anticipate for the new addition and we can’t wait for them to finally meet him/her.
This is the best part of our 5th wedding anniversary celebration this year.. and we are still digesting all of it.
We have taken a break off YouTube as you might notice, we are working on a few changes for the brand and we can’t wait for you to see it all 😍🥰 soon. We will also share details of our pregnancy journey so far when we return.
#marriage#pregnancyannouncement#babyno.3#ugcontentcreators#marriageworks#familygoals#couplegoals#weddinganniversarygift
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On this day 5 years ago we said our I dos. We were young just about to complete our post graduate diploma in legal practice, and to many we seemed like we didn’t know what we were doing. Emma seemed sure about the journey we were taking but honestly I scared. I knew beyond doubt that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him but I feared that I was unqualified 4 marriage.
I had feared marriage for the longest time and here it was right before my eyes. Even though God had done a work in me and healed me from my past trauma i looked at marriage as this big giant in front of me that I wasn’t qualified for.
We were entering into a cross cultural marriage, both our cultures are deeply passionate about their traditions… we had a couple of people here and there who had opinions about why they thought our marriage wasn’t right or that we were making a wrong decision based on our cultural differences 🤦♀️.
One thing was sure though, we knew that our marriage had been ordained by God. I used to hear stories of God choosing spouses for people or telling them about their spouses and it sounded like a movie 🍿 ..until he did it for us.
On our first date I knew that Emma was going to be my husband & God gave him the same revelation about me through different channels.
We were so unsure about many things, but we knew that God had put us together for a reason and that he was going to use our marriage for his glory.
We did not trust in our abilities to make it work but we trusted that God who had been so intentional about putting us together would work it out.
5 years later we look back with so much amazement. We have witnessed the beauty of walking in the will of God. We have sat back and watched God orchestrate our journey, watched him make our purpose clearer. Above all he has used and continued to use our marriage for his glory.
5 years later we know beyond a shadow of doubt that our marriage was never about us but for the lord.
Today our only prayer is that we will spend the rest of our lives relentlessly pursuing God together and making him known to the ends of the world.
Happy 5th wedding anniversary to us 🥂🥂😍🥰🥰
#marriage#weddinganniversary❤️
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Today I graduate with a master of laws degree in oil & gas with distinction ( 4.1 CGPA)🥰🥳.
While we don’t usually use this platform to share our career/ academic achievements, It is difficult to separate this achievement from our marriage.
I wouldn’t have this degree if it wasn’t Emma pushing me. Thank you baby 🤗🥰. Along the journey of doing this masters I had moments where I wanted to pull out but he kept reminding me of the ambitions that I had before we got married and the promise we made to each other to never allow our marriage/ kids stop us from pursuing those ambitions.
I started studying the masters in 2021 and the first exams I did I was down with COVID 19 & pregnant with Che. The anxiety & fear that came with that season was beyond.I wanted to give up; but he kept reminding me how he knew how extremely brilliant and resilient the woman he married was. Thanks to his encouragement I did those exams and excelled 🎊. He also shouldered every other responsibility I had.
The second time was just after I had given birth to Che. One week after I left hospital, school was resuming. I knew that I didn’t want to take a dead semester, but I also didn’t know how to jaggle a new born and school.
As soon as we left hospital, I told Emma that I didn’t think I would go on with the course and that I was considering taking a dead semester. And he told me Daphne that would be so if you were raising these kids alone🥺.. but for as long as I’m here, you should never think about putting anything on hold because of the kids 🥺🥺 I cried literally but that was all the encouragement & affirmation I needed.
I started pumping milk and leaving Che with him every weekend & evening to do my classes as early as 2 weeks postpartum (thank God I recovered quickly). He did the night feeds to allow me rest. He also realigned his whole schedule to allow me attend every discussion, every class and do every course work. I never one time felt the guilt of leaving Che young as he was, because I knew that he was in safe hands. Thank u 4 being an excellent dad.
This is to say thank u baby 4 being beyond supportive, 4 empowering me & seeing the greatness in me when I couldn’t.
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Guess who will be on your screens tomorrow. Catch us on family TV tomorrow at 9pm as we share about the "Biblical & legal implications of a marriage convenant."
Catch us on family TV (Dstv channel 375)
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A few months into our marriage someone asked how we were finding marriage and we told them with so much excitement that we had never been happier 😅
Their response caught us by surprise 😂 “well you are just in your honey moon phase... just give it a few years you won’t be saying the same thing especially when kids come in”. (the sacarsm in her tone was evident 🤯)
Friends 5 years later we are waiting for the bad marriage she was referring to 😂 on the contrary our love for each-other has grown deeper with time. We are more firm, secure and safe in our love for each other.
Our children have drawn us even closer, and we have a deeper appreciation of our union/commitment than we ever did.
Lesson:
📌Marriage is very personal just because someone had a rough first year or 5th year does not mean that yours will be terrible too.
📌Marriage is what you make it. Challenges will come but how you navigate them will determine whether you have bitter stories to tell about marriage or positive ones.
2 Peter 1:3 NIV “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” God has given you all the grace that you need for a marriage that is according to his will.
📌Do not wait for problems to invest in your marriage. Did you know that you don’t have to have problems to go for marriage counseling or couples therapy ?!
📌Be careful the people you listen to especially in your singleness and early years of marriage. They will greatly influence your view of marriage.
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he....” - Proverbs 23:7 KJV
📌 Guard your union with fear and trembling. Good marriages do not happen miraculously you deliberately create one.
Today 5 years ago we had our kugamba obugyenyi aka kukyala. As we looked back at how far we have come we were very humbled and grateful to God for the far he has brought us.
📍📌 what are your thoughts on love/ happiness in marriage? Do you think that it gets better as years go by or it gets worse ? We would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below👇
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Restoring the hope of Christ in the family/marriage institution.
Welcome to a space where we share our experiences and lessons with the hope of encouraging and helping you thrive in your marriage or relationship.
We are a Christian couple married for 6 years with 3 children.
We use this platform to serve our purpose which is to encourage and help couples have healthy, godly, thriving relationships and marriages.
We do not claim to have answers to everything or to be perfect; but we share our journey with the hope that our journey will encourage, inspire or teach someone who is going through a similar situation.
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