Every day when we walk to church, our Rwandan contact, Pastor Moses, encourages whoever is going to be speaking to “Bring the fire.” Translation: He wants the message to have passion, excitement, and for the Holy Spirit to be moving in us as we preach. I enjoy speaking, and have preached a couple messages on Psalm 23, one on Philippians 3:7-14, 1 Cor. 13:13, and a few other ones. We have had plenty of opportunities to bring fire this month. With church 6 days a week (every weekday night plus a morning and evening Sunday service) and a Bible study that we speak at every morning, we have been preaching a lot. Add two hours of door-to-door evangelism every day, and we have been speaking to a ton of people about Jesus’ love. It’s pretty crazy to think of the commitment of the congregation: many of them come to all of the services every week, which means they are in church almost 20 hours/week.
This month has been really similar to Tanzania, except a lot of little things that have made it better. Our contacts house doesn’t have much space, but there is a quiet porch and it is a restful place. The food is good. We do more ministry than we did last month. And the squad leaders, two people whose leadership I really respect and who are just 2 good friends, have spent a week and a half with us.
Rwanda has been good to us. Kigali is a very clean and nice city, and the country is pretty with its many hills. On our last off day, we rented a couple Toyota Rav4s and drove all around the southern and western part of the country. We fed monkeys with our hands, went to a sweet lake, and drove through lots of mud puddles on the dirt roads. It was a blast. It was just so good for me too, because adventure activities are how I get rest. It’s what I need to rejuvenate and refresh me. We MAXIMIZE our 1 off day a week.
It’s been a good month, but it’s definitely going to take some perseverance to make it through Uganda, our last month in Africa. I’m excited to get back to Asia where everything is cheap and the word muzungu (white person) isn’t chanted everywhere you go. Uganda bodes well though, because it’s known as the Pearl of Africa due to it’s beauty, we are starting the month by rafting the Nile (SO EXCITED), and there is a sweet national park with mountains, waterfalls, and caves close to where we will be doing ministry.
It was hard to see the scars from the 1994 genocide, but Jesus is bringing hope to Rwanda.
Love you guys. Miss you. Thank you so much for your support.
Kyle
