Posts by Bruce Snavely
Rwanda July 29, 2013 – Day 1
I arrived in Kilgali late last night (Saturday). The plane was delayed in Brussels for two hours because of severe thunder storms. Consequently, the arrival to Kilgali was around ten o’clock. Pastor Denys finally located me and we drove to the compound on the other side of the city. We talked until midnight about what…
Read MoreRwanda 7/29/13 – Day 3
Well the day is about over, and it has been a long one. It started a little late because of some late pastors from a another sector of the Kilgali region. They cannot afford to come for the entire week. The blessing is that one of our supporting pastors and his church anticipated this and…
Read MoreMyanmar – Day Two of Teaching 2013
As we left for the church this morning I prayed that God would give us more than the ten men we had yesterday. When class started this morning we had our ten but by 10:00 we had thirteen men sitting in our Tuesday class. Two of the three extra men were unconverted Buddhists who decided…
Read MoreMyanmar 10/15/12
Our last preaching service in Yangon was memorable. It was the 13th anniversary of Independent Baptist Church and the founding pastor Vel Siama. Siama and his wife were trained in the Phillipines and came here in 1999 to start this new church plant. Siama is a native Burman from the northeast sector of the state.…
Read MoreMyanmar 10/12/12
Dear Friends, Friday was the high point of the week here in Yangon. It was our fifth and final day of class work, testing, and finally in the afternoon, our first class graduation. My day started around 5:30 am. I got up and continued praying for Grace to get on all of her flights back…
Read MoreRwanda 8/20/2012
Greetings from Rwanda once again, I have been back for a couple hours now and, after having had something to eat, feel ready to resume normal stuff. The Congo ministry was an extremely taxing trip, but I think quite a profitable one. On Saturday night the first outdoor meeting took place in Bagira. The pastors…
Read MoreCongo 8/17/2012
Congo 8/17/2012 Sorry for the hiatus in communication. I have been absolutely cut off from all communication until today. This Congo trip has been very difficult for me. I don’t have time tonight to tell you everything, but I will just share about the ministry. The environment here is completely different than Rwanda. The level…
Read MoreRwanda 8/12/2012
We drove about two hours outside of Kigali toward the Congo. What my eyes saw on the way was like opening a social studies book in third grade. I saw everything in the villages and streets that I have always imagined about Africa. People were dressed in the typical colors of Africa; from the clothes…
Read MoreRwanda 8/11/2012
Today was my last session with the pastors here in Kigali. It was a very good morning. I gave them notes on both the introduction and conclusion to the sermon in the first two hours. Then in the final hour and a half, I introduced the book of James and did the opening message on…
Read MoreRwanda 8/10/2012
Third World living is just that, like an “other world.” I had my first shower Wednesday night. I asked to take a shower and one of the workers on the compound brought me two containers of water – one boiling, one cold. I mixed the water in a wash pan in the bath tub and…
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