Rwanda

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It is Thursday night (August 9), and I am wrapping up my first, and very long, day. I slept fitfully through my first jet-lagged night, waking up and going back to sleep three separate times. My bed is surrounded by mosquito netting. There were many new and unfamiliar sounds in the night: the Moslem temple…