September, 2008 archive
Another Day In Africa [excerpt]
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Today Arlene visited another prison; this ones houses about 4000 (150 women) and she spoke to 1700 today. At the invitation, around 300 made professions of faith. She distributed 368 Bibles and for the first time was actually allowed to be in the room where the women are housed. Pastor Deo, who escorts Arlene to each prison, is the head of Prison Fellowship Rwanda. Arlene has a few more appointments so keep her in your [...]
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Team Rwanda Mid Ministry Update [excerpt]
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Hi Team USA!
It’s Vicki here with an update at the halfway point of our trip. In case you are wondering at our lack of communication it really is all about the technology challenges. There is slow and then there is Rwanda SLOW!
I’ll give you updates in each area and then some personal reflections.
Emmanuel and Greg arrived safly at their location 2 hours away and the pastor’s training is underway. We can be in contact by [...]
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Sowing and sewing…that’s what this is about! [excerpt]
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Hi everyone- It’s reaching the midnight hour once again. We just can’t seem to hit the sheets any earlier. Misecor Guest House is pretty quiet at the moment as most of the team has retired for the evening. We have so enjoyed watching God move in our midst each and every day. Today was no exception.
It was March 2007 that the vision for this trip was birthed when Emmanuel and an African drummer’s band, Samputu, were invited to [...]
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Worship takes on new meaning! [excerpt]
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Hi everyone- We’re drawing the curtain on another day of what has absolutely been an incredible trip so far. We’re all totally exhausted, but equally amazed at how God has moved in and through our team. We were supposed to spend the afternoon at Lake Muhazi (about 1.5 hours away), but we all agreed we would rather take naps, and decompress. It was a great decision. This is the first continuous break the entire team has [...]
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Talk About Five Loaves & Two Fish [excerpt]
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
WOW. You’d think after the past few days we’d be ready for any other changes that could be thrown at us…
Construction team and sewing team went to the training facility to get things setup for Monday. We got most of the machines setup on the tables and tested when a massive rain storm occurred and took out the power. We finished hooking up the machines and also started repairing some of the broken trundle machines. At 12:30 [...]
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