Mission Mates Directory
Rwanda
~ "Munezero" to "Mwiza" ~

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.