Week in Rwanda

Pastors Paul 'Safari' and Rita Nzimbi

of The Nairobi Chapel church plant kindly hosted us for the week.

Trinity Chapel Kigali 

have a look at the photos for August 16

John was honoured to be asked to preach at the service.

 It was great to spend the week together as families.They have two boys, Benzi (11) and Ttei (4) and a girl Alika (10). Rita home schools the children and our boys joined in - shirtless as it was so hot! 

Below is their house. Rwanda was hot and humid, and very dry with a water shortage.

Finlay, Alika, Benzi, Ttei and Jesse 

Ttei and Emily, best friends for a week!!

Hanging out with church kids after the service.

Kigali central city - 

The city is about 2 million, but it is incredibly quiet and peaceful compared with the hustle and bustle of Nairobi. It is also incredibly clean, plastic bags are illegal in Rwanda. The city is extremely hilly. Rwanda is known as the country of a thousand hills.

Kigali has a strict building code requiring all homes to be built of permanent materials. 

bananas or tissues African style!!!

Meet Ashiraf, our World Vision sponsor child!

We had the privilege of meeting his family and having a look at The World Vision Kabuga development project, 

 New School built by partnership between World Vision and Rwandan government.

 World Vision Community greenhouse project run as  a co-op of 19 people in the Kabuga community, The tomatoes are able to supply a supermarket in Kigali, and the profits are able to provide Health Insurance for over 200 families within the community

locals from around the school. 

The Genocide Memorial Museum

We were also able to visit the genocide memorial in Kigali, it is a beautiful site, but sobering and difficult. The museum tells the story of the 1994 genocide in which over a period of 100 days around 1 million Rwandans (20% of the country's population) were killed, mostly with machetes and clubs by their fellow Rwandans. 

The country is still recovering from the trauma of these events. 

Please pray for the continued healing of the country and the people.

After a week of quiet streets, no traffic, and some space for reflection we landed back in Nairobi with a bang - a long drive from the airport along Mombasa Rd at rush hour and we were stopped alongside this bus - when one of its tires blew out!, the shockwave rattled the windows.

(the third most scariest moment of the trip for Connie!)

Welcome back to Nairobi!