Media Release by Kwasizabantu Mission
A LIFE WHICH IMPACTED THOUSANDS – KAY
STEGEN
The life of Kay Stegen, which ended 26 November, has had
a great impact on many communities in KwaZulu-Natal and abroad. Kay Stegen (nee Dahl)
married the director of Kwasizabantu Mission, Rev Erlo Stegen, on 17 September 1972.
Before her marriage, and during her 30 years at the
mission, Kay has been involved in education. She was a lecturer at Newcastle and Vryheid
Teachers Training Colleges (Madadeni & ETTC). She also co-founded two very successful
educational institutions at Kwasizabantu Mission, Domino Servite School (DSS) and Cedar
College of Education. DSS was founded in 1986, as a non-racial private Christian school.
Its excellent academic record has often made news. Other DSS schools have since been
founded in Europe, based on the same Christian principles.
Kay has always had a missionary heart and, though she was a
devoted wife and mother, she also managed to be thoroughly involved in outreaches and
assisting the thousands who came for help to Kwasizabantu. She accompanied Erlo on many of
his missionary trips, even while she was suffering from the cancer, which was to take her
life.
In a tribute by a close friend, Fano Sibisi, he says: "I
believe that as she prepared a room for many of us in her house, so the Lord of the
heavenly mansions has prepared something for her that is ‘out of this world.’
"
Kay was a wonderful wife to Erlo and was the mother of 6
daughters - Hulda, Naomi and Ruth, Elisabeth, Dorothea, Esther.
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