Road to Rwanda----International Staff

 

This is truly an international staff.  I have had so so much fun with the neighbor lady here in our apartment complex who arrived at the same time we did. She is from Zimbabwe, which we have visited many years ago when we lived in Zambia, and has many similarities with Zambia ( like calling the hot water heater a “geyser”, which the Rwandan staff found confusing, but I knew what she meant).  The other night as we were walking home from eating supper at the principal’s house, we got to laughing so hard I thought people might come out of the houses and tell us to be quiet.  We were particularly tickled when we figured out that we really did not know which road to turn on to get home.  We figured it out but were afraid maybe we would be hours wandering.  She most recently came from a school in Afghanistan where she was teaching.  She was not able to return to Zimbabwe until after the Taliban had taken over, but then made it out.  She has a beautiful 6 year old daughter with her.  The daughter asked her mom if she could call me “Granny” and in Sunday School, she drew me a picture which is now on my refrigerator.  What a privilege it is to be with these people.

Sunday I went to church.  (Rick had to stay home because the tech was coming to attach our internet service. We were told it would be about $250 a month…which is more than our rent…but from a different new provider, we are getting it for $20 per month! But the man came at 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning to make it work!)  I walked the kilometer to the school where the church meets.  I enjoyed it so very much. It is called “Freedom Church”.  There are 39 congregations all over the world.  It is based out of England.  They record the worship time and sermon and then they are streamed to wherever/whenever the church service is.  A good worship time, and an excellent, challenging sermon.  There were about 70 people there.  Only a few school staff and a handful of whites.  We will enjoy this church.  There are other options of house churches in English as well.