Guitar class

With a view to bringing some more musianship to our worship team we
have started giving guitar lessons on Saturday afternoons. There are 6
beginners who are learning and we were blessed recently with a
donation of a new guitar brought to us from friends in Nairobi by a
visiting team from a Vineyard church in St. Louis.

Daniel in orange at home with parents, siblings and grandmother

Daniel's family are so blessed to have him back home. He has been able
to manage the one hour walk to church with his family on Sundays and
join in Children's church. The skin graft has taken well and there are
no physical handicaps as a result. Unfortunately the trauma of 4
months pain and suffering have taken its toll on Daniel's personality.
His Dad tells me he is eating dirt and that he gets quite hysterical
from time to time. Please pray for his emotional healing. Many thanks
again for all the support for Daniel and his family during this
crisis.

Update on Daniel

To all who have been praying for young Daniel, many thanks! You prayers are being answered. A friend of a friend here in Kigali has some medical contacts in the US who send surgeons to Rwanda periodically to work for a few weeks. Following a phone conversation with this lady we sent her Daniel's story and some pictures of his wound. She forwarded them to her contacts in the States who have a colleague working in Rwanda right now. He is working in a hospital run by Partners in Health about 2 hours out of the city and having seen the pictures of Daniel's thigh has agreed to do a skin graft next week. It will involve about one month of hospitalization for Daniel but will almost certainly insure his full and speedy and much less painful recovery.   Praise God once again for his provision.

Strength for today and bright hope for Rwanda's future

Ernest in red working with guys from 'Ten Talents'

As part of our ongoing project to get rabbits into as many 'back yards' as possible, we set Ernest up to build a rabbit hutch with the guys from 'Ten Talents International'. Part of what this organization has done is to train a number of underprivileged Rwandan boys to build and sell rabbit hutches. The hutches are top quality and Ernest is really enjoying the opportunity to learn carpentry skills that we hope he will eventually be able to pass on to some of the guys at the Vineyard.

Could someone go find the key?

Our first Children's Meeting

After worship on Sunday we blessed the children to go to their own meeting. They were very excited to have a children's meeting that is geared to their level of interest. So the sewing machines were moved to one side and the new benches set out and 3 of the ladies led the meeting with songs and stories. It certainly made preaching to the adults a lot less disruptive. Another win-win situation!