Introduction of A Voice For Rwanda

Welcome back! I am welcoming myself back to blogging as I have set that aside for to long. I hope to be able to maintain two blogs. One for the work of A Voice for Rwanda and one of my more personal challenges as a cross cultural Mom of 9 Rwandan children and the journey living as a missionary and all it's challenges God is using to develop me as a person. The more personal blog is mamamutoscorner@blogspot.com. So for any of you who would like to follow these journeys please feel free to add yourself as a follower.

The last post I entered was when we had to go back to America. We have now been back in Rwanda since May of 2009. A Voice For Rwanda is a non profit organization( although we are still working on the 501C3 portion), we are registered in Rwanda as an official INGO though we are volunteer and are not paid by the organization. We are missionaries that raise our own support and program support. Foundation Bible School is now in it's second year with approximately 20 students, mostly pastors or leaders of local churches in the area. We have two Remember Me Homes, which are for older orphans. The girls home has 7 girls now, six have moved on to developing their lives. This is the purpose of the homes so though we are sad to see them leave we are also excited they are beginning to develop their own life. The boys home has 10. We now have nine Rwandan children as well in our own home. The Help program assists 13 families in the village of Akindege.

Since our mission statement is to minister the Father's love to the people of Rwanda physically, spiritually, emotionally and socially this means relationship. Though we have programs they are relational. It is so much easier to have programs and not care about relationship. Or you may care but knowing you are not involved personally is so much easier. Staying with those you minister to in a relationship can be draining, bang your head against a wall kind of ministry at times. It also means you minister to a smaller circle. Though smaller we pray the roots of where God is using us to reach will multiply for the Kingdom of Heavens Sake. Our heart deire is to make a difference in someone's eternity.

I will be posting separate posts to describe each of our ministry programs and then continue on with their development.