Mission Accomplished

I felt strongly that we needed to teach the youth an easy way to engage with the Gospel to get to know Jesus, learn to follow Him and lead others in His ways. Fortunately, I learned how to lead Gospel Based Discipleship at the Canadian Indigenous Leadership Week. It provides an easy way to encounter the Gospel

Legacy

One of the first projects I led for the youth at St. Paul’s, was making sewing kits for women in Rwanda, which was followed by the youth raising money to buy Bibles for the women’s conference. The involvement was sparked in a Prayer group where we regularly prayed for the people of Rwanda. Patricia Baker […]

Take it all to the Cross

One of the highlights of the youth conference was when we invited the youth to take their burdens, sins, and lies they had believed, to the cross. Then we took them all outside and burned them. The mood was one of lament. They sang several songs before their crumpled papers were lit on fire and […]

They will Never be the Same

The youth conference started out with some mingling games, I introduced a simple way to read the Bible from Gospel based discipleship which I learned at the. Canadian indigenous leadership week. Then I got to share my testimony. My energy level was definitely back. I felt like myself again. I was followed by Pastor John and […]

Jumping in the river

We arrived in Cyangugu on Saturday evening expecting to start the youth conference on Sunday morning. However the youth were here and the bishop was ready to begin, so we jumped right in. Our participants were between about 12 and 25. We were warmly welcomed and handed out Bibles. Wi-Fi access is quite limited, but […]

Prayer requests and links /sorry no pictures

I was sick to my stomach after visiting. The genocide memorial yesterday. I don’t have the capacity to process it but it was important that we went. https://www.facebook.com/kigaligenocidememorial/ It is so wonderful to have Emmanuel here. Today we visited a project run by Aspire Rwanda which is trying to get approval for days for girls […]

We will plan when we get there

The title of this blog is a phrase I learned this morning from Francis of Embrace Rwanda and it describes our day so far. Emmanuel phoned here to Solace guest house to let us know there is a campaign event in Cyangugu on Thursday and Friday so we have been bumped from staying at the […]

One More Sleep

I am happy to be traveling with Wendell and Nora James. They both visited Rwanda last year to meet with friends about Microfinancing and Nora was part of a youth conference in Cyangugu in 2015. So, I am dependent on their expertise. We are flying to Montreal and Amsterdam tomorrow and Kigali on Tuesday. This […]

Call to Rwanda

I had a wonderful trip to Cuba in March with my daughter’s family. A conversation with her mother-in-law triggered me to seriously consider a request to speak at a Youth Conference in Rwanda. I was reading Not Good if Detached, by Corrie tem Boom. After the conversation, I opened to a chapter called “Obedience” Corrie felt that […]

Begin with Gratitude

I’ve named this blog after 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. As I began the journey with cancer, God gave me this guiding Scripture which served as a lens to look through daily, and an outline for my facebook status.