Rwanda Mission Partnership

It was a privilege to be a part of the Day 4 team to visit Rwanda and The Christian Unity Fellowship in June 07. Rwanda is a country recovering from the terrible genocide of the mid nineties.

My first impression was of the humility of the Rwandan people. How welcome they made us feel. How grateful they were to know that we had come to show support for them, to provide some resources for them and to hopefully show them that we stand beside them and pray for them.

As we travelled around we saw what a beautiful country Rwanda is. It is very agricultural, essential to feed the densely populated country..

The people are seemingly at peace, a tribute to the government and the churches. God is at work in Rwanda. It shows on the faces of the Rwandan people. Christianity appears to be wide spread. We saw “ JESUS” written on taxi vans, and on the back of a large fuel tanker were the words in bold print “ONLY GOD”.

We saw children every where, a sure sign of a new generation emerging. Even so, the country is still needing sustainable help as they emerge from a period in time that will surely go down in history as a blight on mankind.

As our team flew out of beautiful Rwanda, we were left with much to think about having learnt only too well that the poverty of these lovely people is their strength, they depend every day on God, and that the materialism of the western world is our weakness.

Colin Rigg