Our final two days in Rwanda were filled with meetings---important connections with leadership at both Sonrise School and the Diocese. I'm particularly grateful for the two hour meeting with had at Sonrise--with the deputy principals of both the primary and high schools, the business manager, and the two chaplains. With one or two exceptions, this [...]
by Katie Prudek I've now completed the rite of passage that is a Rwandan church service. Jay left the Bishop's house bright and early yesterday to preach at the cathedral's English service, before the rest of us had even come down for breakfast. Chantal and I dropped Amanda off to preach at St. Michael's (Sonrise [...]
Yesterday we came north to Musanze--two hours from Kigali on winding roads that climb several thousand feet over 90 kilometers. The vistas are beautiful as the hillsides pass by, cultivated to the very top with crops being watered by abundant rains in this season. We settled into the Bishop's home, and toured the cathedral grounds [...]
By Katie Prudek Although I am in East Africa, I sometimes feel like I'm back in the Czech Republic, where I lived from 1st through 12th grade. The shape of the door handles and light switches here, the way the narrow bathtub in my room at the guesthouse rises out of the floor at a [...]
Kigali in the Morning Kigali is a city of many hills--which means it is also a place of valleys. Our first day began with mists rising from the low places, as people, animals and machines awakened to greet the morning. The days are long here, with the Muslim calls to prayer beginning before [...]
Each time I travel to Rwanda I experience a movement of transition--the need to ease into a different place, and I'm learning that its important to do this well. Its a physical and time/space transition, but also a cultural one. A shift that is both external and internal. It takes a re-orienting of posture, perspective [...]
Its been over a year, but soon those from Redeemer will be connecting once again with our friends in Rwanda. Of course, Redeemer is always present in Rwanda through our ministry families there (the Hanlons and Abrahams), but this fall our clergy return to greet friends and forge new relational connections. Canon Jay, Deacon Amanda [...]
On Thursday May 23rd 2013, we traveled to a reconciliation village that was founded and is led by Pastor Deo. In this village there are ex prisoners and victims of the genocide, who work together in fields growing crops and tending to animals such as cows and goats. They live together in houses in close [...]
Sundays are big days for pastors. That seems to be doubly true in Rwanda. But yesterday was an especially big day at the cathedral in Musanze: it was a day on which nine deacons were ordained, four deacons were made priests, and two men were installed as Canons of the Shyira Diocese. One of these [...]
