Month 5 | Rwanda I had this whole idea of Africa being flat lands, HOT, and not very developed. Wrong idea. Rwanda is mountanious, cool (meaning sweatshirts at night :), and way more developed than I ever imagined. This month we are living with Pastor Peter, his wife Jane, and their 4 children. We are working with Pastor Peter at his church, New Convenant. Our ministries this month include door to door evangelism, lunch time fellowship at the electric company Pastor Peter used to work at, preaching at the church on Wednesday & Friday nights, and all other random ministry opportunities that pop up. My absolute favorite ministry thus far was the afternoon we went to a boarding school. We walk into a gymnasium of 700 high school students applauding us and were seated at a table on stage in front of everyone. It was wild. We all got to share a bit and I loved walking through the crowd talking to the students. Door to door evangelism. yeeeeaaaah about that. It’s been a challenge. Because lets be real, if someone knocked on your door in America and said, “Hi, we are here to share the love of Jesus with you” the door would get slammed in your face. I love Jesus and if someone knocked on my door saying that, I’d probably be like ‘what are you doing?’ I think that part of the reason I had a difficult time with this at first is because over the years I’ve had people tell me “no one wants to hear about Jesus, keep it to yourself.” Here, it is a totally different story. People invite us into their homes with joy and not only listen to our testamonies of God but also share their life stories, many of which include surviving the genocide that happened here. The people of Rwanda are so friendly and welcoming. Shaking hands is the custom when greeting people, no matter how old or young you are. Children will come running up to us to give us hugs or shake our hands. And everywhere we go, people yell “mazungo!” at us (white person!).
^ Rwanda Football game! it was a pretty sweet game
