Congo

I shouldn’t be, but I am always amazed anew as I watch women around the world react and respond to the Word of God. It is such an amazement to watch the tears, the praise, and receive the thanks from these women for helping them learn to “rightly divide the Word of Truth.” Once again…

Greetings from the Congo, We began our class today with about 45-50 participants. At first blush, it appears that some of the more distant village pastors did not make it this year. The hosts have not yet told me why this might have been. Because we are only teaching through Wednesday we can only cover…

I began my pastors’ wives classes this morning. They have never done anything like this, so they kept the schedule light – Monday and Tuesday mornings from 9-12. Ok. I will roll with it. By 9:30, we had 36 pastors’ wives and eight nursing babies between the ages of six weeks and 2 years, many…

Yesterday, I was able to visit the Rwandan Genocide Memorial. I can’t begin to tell you how it broke my heart to tour this facility. I have known about the Rwandan Genocide. Bruce has told us that all of the pastors he teaches were, in some way, affected by this atrocity. But now I understand…

Today, I heard the words, “Welcome to the Congo”. They were from my host on the seat beside me after we arrived in the Congo. My host traveled to pick me up to Kigali Friday evening, and before our conversation had gone very far he told me he had come up by bus. Yes, the…

Today is graduation day from Theology I01-1. For the vast majority, if not all of these pastors, this is the first time in their lives they have had an opportunity at getting any kind of meaningful ministry preparation. We taught until about 11:00 this morning when we took a short break for a short meeting…

Today marked the ending of the pastors’ class and the graduation. There were actually 52 pastors who attended each class, passed each test, and received a certificate for Systematic Theology – Part I. It was such an amazing event to witness. One of the pastors, representing the other pastors, asked to speak to my husband…

I am on the downward slope here in Kigali. Tomorrow will be my last day before I am picked up to go to the Congo on Saturday morning. Grace will remain here and probably have a very lonely weekend. Very few of the housemates here are available for her personal help, so she will have…

PEOPLE The reason we serve God is because we love people. And serving people is serving God. There are many interesting stories here in Rwanda. I want to share just a few of the people who have impacted us in the last few days. AlphonseI previously told you that they have housed us in a…

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. FoodWe 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…