Posts Tagged ‘Rwanda 2019’

Our October classroom in Rwanda is completed!  As we watched our 52 pastors graduate today from two more courses, I realized just how close they are to completing Level Two in their training.  Just three more classes and they will have over fourteen subjects in their respective academic portfolios!  This is an amazing accomplishment for them…

Today is hump-day for us here in Kigali, Rwanda.  After today it will be all downhill to our finish on Friday afternoon for graduation.  This year we will have held four separate classes (two in July and two this week) in Kigali for the pastors who are progressing rapidly.  Everything is changing very rapidly in…

I’m back in Rwanda for our October classroom.  Pastor Larry and I got in Saturday about mid-afternoon and met Fidele expecting to get our first ride in Fidele’s newly purchased used car.  However, Fidele was the emcee in a local wedding and had to have his friend Eric drop us off at the Guest House…

The teaching week has flown by once again and, by this time tomorrow, we will be safely settled on the compound in Entebbe, Uganda, preparing for another week of study.  This week could not have been much better.  We accomplished all our goals, got all the material covered, and graduated 49 pastor-students early this afternoon.…

This week’s classes in Rwanda are almost completed.   The blessing of this amazing class of nations pastors has been doubled this week in many ways.  First, Dr. Larry Bazer has again joined Bruce in teaching.   So, the pastors get double the blessing in teachers! Because of Dr.Bazer teaching alongside “Dr. Bruce,” as the…

Rwanda is entering a new era of productivity and prestige.  Twenty-five years ago nobody would have ventured a Rwandan dollar that the nation would ever come back from near extinction.  In the summer of 1994, over a million Rwandan citizens lay slaughtered over the length and breadth of this small African state.  Genocide had, in…

Let me begin by asking a very simple question.  Should churches use their missions money wisely?  I’m sure everyone agrees that the answer is yes!  Let’s go a step further.  If there are numbers of indigenous believers on the ground on any mission field, why would we send a western missionary family halfway around the…