Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name reads as a real congregation
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.com, common for small churches)
- No website or social page was provided
- Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
What we found
We searched for "Shalom PEFA Church" in Nairobi and found no page, listing or mention matching that exact congregation name. The wider denomination it claims to belong to is clearly real: the Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa runs a national office and website in Nairobi (PEFA Church Kenya lists Mfangano Street, Nairobi, with the site pefachurch.org) and its own history page traces the mission to Tarang'anya in 1943. Many individual PEFA branches in Nairobi do have a visible footprint, such as PEFA Runda's Facebook page with about 6,500 followers and the site pefarunda.com, the official PEFA Church Thika Road page in Kasarani and PEFA Church City Center in Nairobi, plus map entries for PEFA churches in Zimmerman, Roysambu and Kariobangi. A "Shalom" branch appears in none of these, and the free Gmail contact address gives no independent confirmation; we found no scam or fraud reports against this name either. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: The Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa is a well-established Trinitarian Pentecostal denomination with a national office and website in Nairobi, and many of its local branches operate across the city, so a "Shalom" PEFA congregation in Nairobi is entirely plausible. No separate page or listing for this particular branch was found, but small estate congregations in Nairobi commonly have no online presence and a personal Gmail address is
No further action is needed. This report is refreshed whenever the church is reviewed again.