In June our team was partnered with a Ministry call Awakening Healing.
The Rwandan government has set strict building codes in recent years. While Rwanda’s economy is growing, the laws were set at a standard too high for most rural areas that are lagging behind economically. The laws have caused schools and universities to shut down and is making a detrimental impact on communities. They have shut down hundreds of churches in the past couple years as well.
Our goal was that month was to be apart of the remodeling and reopening of these meeting places for communities.
While theres no clear solution for the government, Love can stand in the gap and as a community of people pursuing Love, our goal is to serve. Help boost a hurting community back to their feet. So they are empowered to keep trudging forward.
We spent mornings collecting dirt from the church property, preparing and laying concrete floors, landscape and excavation.
Most of these churches have small communities and lack of funds make it difficult to keep the remodeling process going. As volunteers, we were able to provide help that those small communities were not able to pay laborers to do.
While we don’t want to come in and do all the projects for them, but our short month there is a short spurt in morale and an encouragement to the people to keep the progress going.
In the afternoons we would spend our time visiting homes of the folks in those communities. We did our best to encourage them to continue to push thru their struggle and rememeber the value that this current struggle has.
I love being a small part of these ministries. I love to be humbled by the significance of the work ministries like these do and grateful to have even a small part.
At the end of June I got a bacterial infection from eating contaminated food. So I was out for the last week of work but the next month in Uganda more than made up for the work I missed out on! Overview on Uganda coming soon!
