Sunday Worship

PeaceLodge

After purchasing land, the Becks were the first in the area granted a permit to build. Soon afterwards, a church called PeaceLoadge was allowed to build next door up a little hill. Originally founded by a Canadian,  it is now led by a group of 10 including Caleb.

We were privileged to go to that church this morning. I can't post the videos because of the WiFi, but you should definitely watch them once I post them next week once I get back. It is a traditional Rwandan church. It provides a middle ground between the Catholic and Pentecostal churches that are more common.

The service mostly consisted do performances by children and adult choirs as well as a dance team.  Everything was authentic African.  Wow! It was really awesome.

The sermon was given by a Canadian married to a Rwandan who are trying to move back here. Caleb has been asked to teach on Thursday nights. He is hoping to use this as an opportunity to introduce discipline concepts through DBS. The new building is already used as a community center.  There is a soccer field next door.  Caleb views the church as being a portal into his local community.

ATN

We worshipped at the Koonce house tonight. It was a large crowd because we welcomed a large group from  Pepperdine studying abroad. All the locals introduced themselves and described their ministry. Because Rwanda requires everyone to have a vocational job, we heard from teachers, principles, accountants, and taekwondo coaches who one by one named their job and how they use it to bring people to Christ. How awesome it would be if everyone in the U.S. saw themselves as being a missionary first and their profession  as the vehicle to serve.