The Joy of Fellowship (Day 8)

This post was written by Kenny Roberts

Today is Monday, May 20, 2013.

Today was a truly enjoyable day. First of all, everyday get to wake up to the most beautiful view. Things like this always help me to take joy in the Lord because it makes me think about how gracious the Lord is in displaying his goodness through the things that we enjoy. For example, the food that we’ve eaten here for the most part has been so good and God could have made eating just for nourishment and not as pleasurable of an experience as it is. That one was free! Take it and put it in your pocket!

 We started by going to Kamate where we fellowshipped with the believers there. The night before I was asked to speak to the congregation there, greeting them and bringing the word! It was truly an honor. One of the things that we have been talking about often is how the Lord brings us together as family in the body of Christ. This is exactly what I spoke about. I talked about how in John 17 Jesus prayed that the believers who would believe based off the word of the apostles (all of us) would be one as he and the Father are one. And then went to Philippians 1:3-11 where Paul is talking about his genuine joy in praying for the Philippians. His prayer for them is that their love may abound more and more, with knowledge and discernment, so that they may be blameless for the day for Christ , filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. This is my prayer for the saints here and the saints in Greensboro.

It is so cool how we get to see scripture come to life. Before we came to Rwanda we continued to pray for the believers here and the people that we would meet here. With arriving here, even though we had never met them, I feel like the Lord gave me a genuine love for them and my heart is overjoyed every time we go to the church to see them.

After we left Kamate, and one group went to visit another church that we had not been to before while we went to Karangazi Parish where we got to see the kids that we have been hanging with all week. It was such a sweet time. We know them and they know us, and so we get a chance to just hang and continue to play and learn about them and their lives. Kevin shared with the Kids about being one body with many members and it was phenomenal!!!

 

Taylor Schor was among the group that went to the other church. One kid the head boy of the school in Karangazi waited until well after dark for that group to arrive back to Karangazi to pick us up, just so that he can see Taylor. He said “I will wait until after dark. I will wait until Midnight to see him is I have to.” When asked why he said, “Because he is my best friend!” That is the kind of love and friendship that we are building with our brothers and sisters here in Rwanda. We are all apart of one body, fellowshipping together, for the sake of showing the love of Jesus and the glory of the Father. I pray that this is our mission as we continue to meet people here, but even as we fellowship with other believers back in North Carolina. Amen.