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…

We awoke this morning to another beautiful day here in Rwanda. Today is the first quiz day and so the first hour of class will be taken up with that. African students are not accustomed to the learning environment, so they simply take their sweet African time!! It is really funny once you get used…

Today marks the first day of our third teaching class here in Kigali, Rwanda.  Mondays are always the hardest, and today was no exception.  We started in Theology 101 at about 9:15 with a study about the Bible itself.  I usually cover the basics including the foundational facts of what revelation is, how it came…

Rwanda has come a long way since the Genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of people (that is a subject I will definitely address later because I have already heard the stories of several women and what they endured), but the country is still very poor. Although new, modern buildings are going up, the infrastructure…