DAY 7 – Kigali/Rwanda
December 6th, 2017
The original plan today was, to continue our journey to Bukavu/Congo, but we decided to stay one more day here in Kigali and do a little touring through the area.
When we look at the business buildings and big manicured parks, the embassies, golf courses, bank buildings, and fancy cars, nobody would expect anything like this for an African city. Everything started to be constructed after the genocide, and it seems like an amazing infrastructure is in place.
When we get to the Guest House, some believers from the local church here arrive to say good-bye, because tomorrow morning we are leaving for Bukavu/Congo.
We have the chance to speak to Brother Nyandwi Theodomir, who gives us his testimony.
My name means ‘seventh born’ and I am born in Rwanda in 1960. My parents left this country as refugees, when I was two month old to go to the neighboring country Burundi. The genocide really began already in 1959, after King Mutara, the Third, was assassinated by Catholic Belgium people, and the political situation was very bad.
Just after the genocide in 1994 I came back home to Rwanda with my wife and two children, Naede and Angel and my mother, because I wanted to be where I was born. My father had passed away in 1972 when I was 12 years old. And when I returned home to Rwanda now, most of my relatives were killed in the genocide, uncles, aunts, cousins, everybody. Even the family home was totally destroyed. I met only 3 female cousins, who had survived and witnessed everything happening.
My mother passed away 5 years ago at the age of 102 years old.
I was educated in Catholic schools in Burundi. When I heard about the message in 2002, I didn’t believe at that time. A pastor in Kigali told me about it. It took 8 years, in 2010 when I realized that this message is the Truth. All my family is believing today. One of my sons is a preacher and the other one is an evangelist. My son in law is my pastor and baptized me in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am thankful for God’s blessings in our lives.
