Rwanda

GBTF swerved into Rwanda’s spiritual future today!  This marks the day we began the process of training the brightest of the local pastors to train their own nation with the materials of Global Baptist Training Foundation.   Our originating vision for GBTF has anticipated this day in the process of training Rwandans.  It was truly…

As we come to the middle of this week, I wanted to catch you up on a few of the pictures you might be looking at accompanying today’s blog.  On Sunday when we participated in the outdoor meeting outside of Butare, the road leading to the location looked like this coming to the worship site.  It…

As I begin the pastors’ class this morning, I’m reminded that this year marks a genuine milestone in the history of GBTF in Rwanda.  Yesterday, about four hours away  outside of Butare, where our first teacher/ intern for the Baptist secondary schools lived, we participated in a region-wide outdoor prayer and thanksgiving service for Rwanda.  This was kind of significant for…

Rwandan Wrap-Up for Week One of Africa Classes. Grace has told you of the new plans for next week’s classes here in Africa.  Akeem left this morning by private car for the Congo class. The class is expected to be a large one, possibly well over a hundred pastors from a hundred mile radius of Bagira! On Monday I will…

Pastor Mpakaniye Boniface He is from the South province and pastors the South Province Baptist Church.  He has been here for about 2 years. He previously led the Mwendo Baptist Church in the village of Mwendo for four years.  His entire family and extended family fled to the Congo during the genocide of 1994 and…

This morning came too early for our entire group.  You could see the weariness upon everyone’s faces.  Five days of intense study is difficult, but today is graduation day!  In the morning we began with our last quiz, and then we wrapped up the subject with the final lesson and some last hour application of…

Today began our second week in Rwanda in the area known as Kamonyi.  I was taken about an hour away from the compound into one of the village areas.  First there was paved road, then there was dirt road, and then there was a rocky path full of holes.  Out the window I watched children,…

Today is Thursday, and now, after four full days of class, I am beginning to feel exhausted.  The men were unusually full of questions today, and the questions are nearly always loaded!  You have to be very careful in answering them or they can easily backfire.  This creates tension and before long you can lose…

We have had an eventful day today.  The journey began with the same car ride as yesterday, and I think our driver found every trench, pot hole, and pit the road had to offer this morning.  But as we met the students this morning, they were singing and prepared for their first quiz.  I believe everyone…

If Wednesday is hump day, this one was a hill!  We have had quite the day here in Rwanda.  The power has been out most of the day, and the day was non-stop.  We had our second quiz today, and the men seem to be holding up quite well.  I hope I can do the…