Wow. Only two more months left on this crazy adventure of the World Race! I can’t believe time has flown as fast as it has since this adventure first started in August at training camp and into our first flight out of the States in October. More reflection on all of that in a later blog 🙂
Just like that my squad and I made it safely to Rwanda by plane, in two flights to be exact.
My squad flying from Kenya.
Also BIG NEWS: due to a couple of my teammates leaving the Race and going back to the States, team Wasabi has dissolved. I am now a part of team Cheetah Girls, which includes my old teammates, Cristina, Jaivie and Jenny and my new teammates Rachel, Edna and Taylor.
Our team is only a few days old so more team photos will come later. But here’s Edna and two of the five boys, Caleb and Joseph.
Now here’s a look into what my team and I are doing this month:
Where Are We?
My team and I are within the outskirts of Kigali, the capital here.
- We are blessed to be living with a host family this month, who has hosted World Raceteams in the past. Pastor James (aka Gasana) and Olivia (aka Mutesi) have a family that consists of one girl and seven boys. Two of the boys are away at boarding school so we are living with the oldest, Sharon (who is 21) and her younger brothers ranging from the ages of twelve to 4 months. I’m reminded what it was like to have little brothers growing up, having 3 little brothers myself, so it has already been lots of fun to say the least.
- As it is the dry season here, water is scare, so we will be taking bucket showers when we can or going to hotels on our off days to take a weekly shower 🙂 Hey, at least I still take showers.
- Electricity has been very consist here but we have no WiFi where we are, which I’m not too sad about (yay for Netflix and their downloads!)
Ministry Set-up:
- Pastor James founded a Christian school in his neighborhood, so we will be visiting it weekly to play games with the younger children while also implementing biblical stories and ideas.
- It sounds like we will also be visiting different local churches and encouraging members there and also preaching
- We will also be involved in the church’s evening ministries, also preaching and singing
- We will also visit local neighborhoods and do door-to-door evangelism as well
Food:
We are blessed to have our host family cook us three square meals of traditional Rwandan food each day of ministry. It largely consists of a lot of starchy foods, including rice; potatoes, sweet and regular; and LOTS of beans. We’ve also had some delicious lemongrass tea, as tea is a big deal here.
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I can’t wait to see what else the Lord has in store for me here, because when I first signed up for this route, God had highlighted Rwanda (along with Chile, Thailand and Uganda) to me and I had no idea why until yesterday, again more on that in another blog!
Thanks and hope you all had a lovely fourth in the States! Did you know that Rwandans also celebrate their Independence Day the same day?
