This morning we received a warm and gracious welcome from our friends at Purpose Driven Ministries.  Eric Munyemana gave us the PEACE Plan overview including the recent expansion into all 5 Provinces.  We praise God for the way he is using this local church strategy to bring hope and healing to this beautiful nation.

We visited the Rwanda Genocide Memorial today – a sobering reminder of the depravity of our human family not only in Rwanda, but also around the world where the people of even modern nations have slaughtered one another. The Rwandans are, for all of us, a living example of God’s power to redeem us from shame and brokenness.

For the rest of the day Team Inzozi learned about “Africa Time”.  Everything was late and took 3 times longer than we expected.  African time seems to be divided into 3 hour periods instead of our 5 minute intervals.  For Africans it is all about the relationship and the story.  We seemed to be the only ones trembling under the tyranny of our self-imposed time master.

We witnessed the compassion of the man on the street today. A pedestrian woman with a HUGE  bundle on her head and a baby on her back was sideswiped by a passing motor scooter.  She was assisted by those nearby and about 20 young men calmly surrounded the driver to insure everything was satisfactorily resolved.

Tomorrow we borrow some well equipment from a sister church and make our way to our dear friends in Gasarabwayi – can’t wait!

Bruce