7/16/2014 – Rwanda and Congo – 2

Learning about another culture can be so humbling. So many things we take for granted are a major job in a developing nation. Take for instance…food.

Food
We have three meals a day served to us in our host pastor’s home here on the compound. Pastor Denys is a gracious and loving man who is so respected by the other pastors.  He is like a big teddy bear.

Breakfast is usually bread and honey with coffee or tea. They like to bring out new things for us to try, too. Today, there were boiled eggs. The white part was more off white, and the yokes were almost black. Bruce ate his AND mine after I sneaked them on his plate. Haha.

Both lunch and dinner are cooked meals with rice, fried potatoes, fresh beans, cooked vegetables, and maybe some other dish. Today the beans had chunks of cooked pumpkin in them. We also had pieces of fried fish in a tomato sauce. For the most part, the food has been very good, albeit monochromatic. I am a pretty picky eater, so the food has been a pleasant surprise to me.

Each day I see boys carrying 50 pound bags of potatoes on their heads, women carrying dishes on their heads, women cooking on open coal stoves outside, LOTS of peeling of fresh vegetables, and washing dishes in buckets on the ground.  Not to mention washing clothes in buckets and hanging them to dry. We are putting a video on Facebook and www.gbtf.net that show the kitchen crew sitting after feeding the whole crew of pastors and others!!

Thank You

I have heard several pastors thank Bruce in my presence. They also stand and clap their thanks at the end of each session. Today, though, one pastor said, “Doctor Bruce, I will never be confused because of your teachings!”

Bruce has had this dream for several years. To see the reality of it and the results of it are incredibly rewarding and humbling.  Not only will we continue the classes here in Rwanda, but we are asked to expand into other parts of Rwanda and Africa.