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Final Two Weeks in Rwanda for This Trip

9/5/2017

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I am scheduled to be in Rwanda for five weeks on this trip. August 7-11, we studied Luke with the younger group (Equip the Next Generation). It will take several more trips for this group to finish Luke. Then they will begin Acts. Tim Turner and Winfred Felton taught "A Study of Titus" with the older group (Equip a Church Leader) August 14-17. Next, this same group finished lessons they prepared on James (August 18-25). 

Now, for the final two weeks, Theophile and I are teaching four groups of church leaders in the Kigali area. Two of these groups are new and two have studied with us once before. We studied "Three Lessons on the Holy Spirit" with a group of nineteen leaders in Nyanza/Kicukiro last Monday through Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, we taught a new group in Kanombe (near the airport) "Five Purposes of the Church." 

The Pentecostal Church is the largest Protestant Church in Rwanda. So, in most groups we teach, there are some Pentecostal leaders. Occasionally, the group is entirely Pentecostal leaders (our first group last week). The first day is filled with questions (not arguments) when we study "The Gift of the Holy Spirit" (singular). What they see in the text does not match many of their assumptions. By the third day they are excited about the clarity they have concerning the gift, gifts, and fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Pentecostal Church Leaders Excited about
​Three Lessons on the Holy Spirit

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The second group last week said they had been to seminars before, but nothing changes. They expressed their thanks for the practical material provided by Rwanda Challenge. The first group last week said they had taken the teaching from their last time with Rwanda Challenge, applied it, and have already seen results.

Second Group of Church Leaders Celebrate
with Two Leadership Tools, a Deeper Understanding of God's Church,
and Their New Kinyarwanda Study Bible
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This week will be a repeat of last week; "Three Lessons on the Holy Spirit" and "Five Purposes of the Church." We are in the second day with the first group. Not all these leaders are Pentecostal, but ten are leaders in the "Pentecostal Power Church in Africa." Yesterday was filled with questions (not arguments). Today you can see their excitement concerning the things they are learning.

Most church leaders in the world have no Bible resources and no formal Bible training.
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