Many Thanks from CUF & Rwanda!
I would like to take this opportunity to pray for an awesome Christmas and New year’s Season for all who read this and support the work being undertaken by the CUF. Please tell all your family, fellow church members, colleagues, friends and indeed as many Australians as you can contact, of our love and gratitude from Rwanda.
Since we met Andrew in 2003, he has not stopped being a great encouragement to the people of CUF particularly, and for Rwanda in general. This mission partnership has made a difference in our situations.
I acknowledge the support with gratitude. We are so thankful for all those hundreds of Kinyarwanda bibles and hymn books given to all church members and the community on Mt. Kigali. That was in 2004. In addition to that, the team was such a blessing to my community because they supplied us with a big plastic water reservoir, where over twenty households in our community fetch water from, during the rainy season.
What a mighty blessing! During such times, these people do not have to walk down this steep mountain for a distance of over 4 Km (to and fro) to the water grid, near the tarmac to access badly needed water. Once again thank you so much, Andrew. While there is great need for more plastic water tanks, we can not fail to profusely thank you for what you accomplished for us. ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’.
More to that, solar electricity was provided — the only available electricity in our neighbourhood. Neighbours charge their cellphones at our place. This is the only place with any lighting at all, at night, thanks to this solar power. It goes without saying that this solar panel is limited, but it makes such a difference. It can run a computer such that emails can be prepared and sent, albeit for a limited period, before the solar power is exhausted. During the rainy season the solar power is so limited due to limited sunshine, yet solar battery charging is a function of the amount of sunlight. Again, thanks for this solar power you provided for our church, Christian Unity Fellowship.
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Thanks for the lots of Christian literature you brought us then. It is indispensable in our Christian discipleship. Many pastors, lay people, Christians and others have benefited from this literature. In fact, we distributed some of these to prisons, universities and secondary schools in our capital, Kigali, with substantial impact. Praise be to God. Thanks for being a channel of his love.
The telescope you gave us then was quite a phenomenon in our community. How exciting! No one here had ever seen Jupiter, Saturn (the beauty queen in the sky), Mars, the moon and others in their stark enormity at night, or early in the morning. This makes everybody appreciate God and his creation more. We even dream of starting a Sky watching/Telescope centre someday! Please pray about this with us. It will be the first of its kind in Rwanda and probably Central Africa, though I am not sure. They say there is nothing new under the sun, that is why I have my reservations about the statement, but there is none other that I know of.
Concerning the blessings you brought us in 2004, I cannot forget to add the leadership seminar you organised for the pastors of Kigali, mainly those who attend KIGALI PASTOR’S FELLOWSHIP, to which I am chairman. The seed you planted has grown and is still producing fruit, in the area of unity and Christian discipleship. WE are also on the look-out against foreign influences and religionists that would want to infiltrate our society and erode from its foundation. All the pastors still appreciate this. Your words were prophetic, since today we see a surge of deadly religions that want to rape our society. They will not stop at any crude ways and means to achieve their objective.
Well, these are only a few of the things we have seen achieved through our partnership. Our relationship continues today and it has been getting stronger. Next time I will add on what your team accomplished in 2004, and will continue on from there.
