Amon
(Munyaneza Kabwana)



Born in the family of ten kids as the ninth born, my young brother and me were considered as joy killers in the home - an addition to the already crowded family. But our mum loved us; may be because she knew that the pain for the first and the last-born is more less the same.

In 1985, at the age of ten, I gave my life to Jesus; Pastor Esther, who is my mum, led me through the prayer of repentance. It is a moment I will never forget; tears ran down my chicks as she expounded the need for a personal savior, not a family savior. The same year I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. At ten years of age I went to school. My classmates were mostly between five and seven. I was the oldest student for a long time in classes after then.

In 1990 I committed what the school administration considered a misdemeanor; a good number of students were missing lunch; the lunchtime fellowship I had started was giving them more meaning than the rations. The administration burned it. We began meeting in the undergrowth behind the school. But that was a year before I left the school. Now the fellowship has been endorsed. The next six years were to be a real launch to ministry. In a secondary school I went, Christian meetings were buoyant. Yes scripture union was the name of the fellowship. I was chairman for junior classes fellowship and chairman for senior classes fellowship four years later.

Church was my place of fellowship but consolation as well. I was a poor student; I was paying my own school fees. It was on and off at school because of money difficulties. But I had brothers and sisters in Christ at church; they always sent me back to school with a grin on my lips.

In 1996 I was elected prayer leader on the church youth committee; youth chairman in 1997, vice chairman for evangelism committee in 1998. That was my last ministry in the land of exile in Uganda where I was born.

In 1999 I came to our country of origin Rwanda. Presently I am a student of management in the national University of Rwanda. I study while volunteering in Africa New Life Ministries, which is a ministry to the orphans, and disadvantaged Rwandans. I am also a committed member of Assemblies of God Church.


AMON.

THE PACKAGE THAT WILL

A package for me in january,
a big package to begin the year with.
A wrapping for Amon,
all the way from the states.
The contents of which no body knows,
The ingredients therein is but a secret.
not even mr. carrier knows,
except the packer, mr.mzee
and his better half, his very mucaala.
Who can speculate the contents;
who can guess the components.
A well tailored suit?
But I under estimate.
A portable computer?
But I over estimate.
So why not live the work of speculation
to those that can tell it all;
those that know it all,
Mr.mzee and his very mucaala.

Dear my soul,
take rest in your hope,
have faith in your goal
of receiving that which is to come
and to enjoy it whatever it will be.
That is the secret of happiness,
that is the art of thanks giving.
Written by Sir AMON (1975-2095)
He died in 2095 at a ripe age of 120 having opened 85 churches in the whole of Africa,15 of them in his very country Rwanda.In his book 'the saint'he wrote 'I would rather be remembered as a suffering servant than the African Bill Gates'.
Amon and Simon Foreman in January 2002