Team Rwanda: 2024 Blog

~ by Sally Stuart ~ If you are in the Denver area please join us Sunday, March 17, 2024, at St. James Presbyterian Church from 6:00-7:30pm to hear amazing stories from 11 members of our team. There will be refreshments, lots of pictures, some video and a chance to ask questions of the team. The […]

Day 13 ~ by Sally Stuart ~ Look what God has done! When our teams travel to Rwanda we always know we are just representatives of a much larger group of people, including many of you, who have supported our team, Love With Actions and Shalom through the years. We get to see first hand […]

Day 12 ~ by Susie LeBlanc ~ You can apply the words “Love with Action” to traveling on the back roads of Rwanda. It’s like dancing but harder and certainly not as fun. We were “a rockin and a rollin, rockin and a reelin”, every inch of the way! We dodged moon craters, slid through […]

Day 11 ~ by Sally Stuart ~ One of the highlights of this year’s trip to Rwanda was having an amazing group of five men on our team. We all love the traditional Big Five of Africa – rhinos, lions, elephants, buffalo and leopards, but the people of Rwanda absolutely loved our Big Five – […]

Day 9 ~ by Sally Stuart ~ Even in the United States we have only recently come to understand kids on the autism spectrum and their unique abilities and needs. In Rwanda the general public has no understanding of children with autism and the LWA mothers of these children report that they are feared, harassed, […]

Day 8 ~ by Cathy Low ~ Wow!! What an incredible day of festivity and fun. We started our day at Shalom by changing into typical Rwandan garb of old. We were then introduced to our guide for the day who took us through a series of demonstrations of life in Rwanda in ancient times. […]

Afternoon Day 7 ~ by Peggy Karg ~ We had the pleasure of visiting our friend Esther today. It is about a 10-minute walk from the Shalom community center to Esther’s house. She was waiting for us with open arms and a huge smile! Esther is 80 years old, lives alone, and sings in her church […]

Morning Day 7 ~ by Sally Stuart ~ From the very beginning agriculture has been an important component of Shalom’s plan to bring healing and wholeness to the Rubavu community. One of the first steps was encouraging women to build small kitchen gardens to grow fresh vegetables. A young woman named Clementine took charge of […]

Day 6 ~ by Eric Jensen ~ An important part of our trip is our daily devotions. The team meets every morning to read and reflect on scripture and pray for our upcoming activities. In the evening we revisit the scripture from the morning, discuss the events of the day, and pray. Our evening devotion […]

Afternoon Day 5 ~ by Cathy Low ~ My visit to Prince and his family was uplifting and very frustrating. As a romantic, the love story between the stepfather and Prince’s mom (you’ll have to ask us when we get home!) was just like my books. That this man embraced Prince, who also embraced this […]