Team get started in Rwanda

Greg and Stephanie Moss, and Revd Duncan Hill Brown have arrived safe in Rwanda.

Stephanie, Duncan and Greg

Their first stop (after a transfer at 03:30 am and not much sleep) was a visit to the genocide memorial. Duncan writes that this ‘sets this visit in context praying for a revival of reconciliation healing and peace.’

Their programme stretches over two dioceses. The bishop in Muhanga says the people of Nyarugenge archdeaconry are very much looking forward to the teaching. So much to be thankful for. They will then visit the new diocese of Karongi.

The basic needs are two. Spiritual eyes to see what is happening in that realm and what God is doing (and has been prior to our arrival). The presence and power of the Spirit to turn our words into living truth and words from God to people who come.

From the end of a long hot sunny Sunday…

Duncan Writes:
”My first experience of preaching with an interpreter during a three hour worship service with four choirs in the parish of Nyagiosozi a very rural and poor district. A Parish that Greg had not visited before! A parish with a building project to build a church big enough to accommodate the 5 congregations a total of 900 worshippers when they meet together as one in the parish church!

I preached out of Acts 8 Philip and the Ethiopian and focussed on being led by the Spirit.

I also had the opportunity to pray with the pastor and to share a personal word of encouragement with him…”that like Gideon God sees him as a mighty man of God!”

Pls pray for us as we prepare for four days of teaching the last part of the Working in God’s field course and that as we teach and share together and as we want to invite and encourage the delegates to pray for one another that they may receive the Spiritual Gifts they need to do the work God has called them to do in their specific parish and community.”