Damascus Trust - Team Rwanda 2015

Andy still has no SIM card for his phone! Whilst Andy was in a meeting, Grace and Heather went down to the Tigo centre in the afternoon to try and get it sorted. However, when they arrived, there was a power cut so the machine that was used for cutting the SIM card to the right size could not be used. Oh well - hopefully tomorrow....

The Youth Conference Day 2 started very well with the young people sharing what they had learned through the Chapter Summary Method of Bible study given to them yesterday. Each group had done what had been asked and together we collated a study of the book of Ephesians! It was a huge blessing to hear the young people share what they had discovered together.

For the last session of study, Andy went back to the book of Daniel to finish the teaching on Living in Christ's Kingdom. We looked together at the importance of putting into action our choice to live God's way and also to confess our discipleship of Him. This was an exciting last session as we touched on a number of extra areas including living now in anticipation of the new heaven and earth. We looked at how this perspective had made such a difference to the life and witness of the early church. Bishop Emmanuel closed the conference with a strong word of encouragement for the young people to live for Jesus and to guard against the attitudes and actions of the world.

Team photo of Youth Conference 2015

Team photo from Sunday with Pastor Bernard and his family plus Pastor Placide.

Now over to Grace to share more about what she and Heather have done:

• Planned together for our session with the pastors' wives during the conference at the end of the week.  
• Grace had a meeting with Juvenal to discuss the Support A Pastor programme, while Heather met with a young woman who needed a listening ear and counsel.
• Lunch
• On our way out, one of the staff here at the diocesan guest house stopped us to talk, first about favourite colours but soon about a personal and spiritual matter that troubled her.  We gave motherly and hopefully pastoral support and prayed with her.
• We walked down to town with mobile phones, SIM cards and whatever we could think of that might be necessary to sort out our techno affairs in our bags.
• Abraham, our techno man not there.  We went from shop to shop finding out the prices of baskets.  A message from Abraham saying that he was not coming back to the shop because there was no electricity.
• Checked out messages from home.
• Supper, Bible reading and prayers together, bed.