We are about to leave for our first conference in Kigali, Rwanda. Albert Mabasi, the Romans Project point person, has organized three conferences for us: today - Wednesday, tomorrow - Thursday, and day after tomorrow - Friday.
Today we have a mini-conference of just two and a half hours. We are expecting roughly 50 people. Tomorrow will also be in Kigali, but in a different location and will be a full conference program of roughly four hours. On Friday we will be outside of Kigali focusing on pastors in rural areas. The conference will be held in Gahini and is expect to have 100 in attendance.
Each of these conferences focuses on a little different type of audience. While all are pastors and church leaders, the first one is focused more on a younger group. The second group is comprised of pastors who have been in ministry longer and some who are in ministry but also presently being trained. We spoke with the director of the Baptist college in Kigali yesterday and he was eager to extend the invitation to his 37 students. While these first two groups are targeted with pastors and future pastors in the city, the final conference will focus on pastors in the rural areas. This demographic differences also reflect the language differences. Today and tomorrow we should expect more to understand English and Friday will likely need to be with translation into Kinyarwanda - the national language.
Please be praying for us! I will try to give updates at the end of each day, Lord willing.
We are praying..
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