MacMillan Kiiru was part of the first graduating class at Daystar in 1978 when he was awarded a degree to equip him to be the first director of World Vision in Kenya.

I grew up in the central part of Kenya, and as a small boy, I gave my life to the Lord Jesus Christ and committed myself not only to live for him but to serve him. After college at Kenyatta University, I went looking for a job, and I got a job as a laboratory technician for a textile laboratory that was servicing central and eastern Africa in the textile industry. I was there for about six years, and during this time, my colleagues and I would use lunch hour and the evenings to go out in the streets of Nairobi as well as the schools and colleges to preach the gospel.

After six years, I felt strongly led to join in Christian ministry. God opened a door for me to join World Vision International in 1976, and I was the first African executive, and I was given the responsibility of heading the children's ministry of World Vision across the continent. One and a half years later, I was appointed the director of World Vision to help establish World Vision in Kenya, and I felt very inadequate having a textile industry and scientific background. I was in a Christian ministry, and I felt it was necessary for me to be equipped. I looked for opportunities, and the only door that was open then was Daystar. It was actually a college, just an institute of Christian communication's college, and I joined that college in 1978. I started on a communications program, and later that program was standing to a Master's program, and I did this for about six years because I was fairly involved with World Vision, but I would afford the time to get equipped.