Reconciliation

Even in the face of all the pain in this broken world, we believe strongly that there is hope, because we believe in the God of hope (Ro. 15:13). Hope is part of His character – He cannot be otherwise.  God has a strategy to use His church to be the agents of healing and reconciliation in the different nations.  But first, the church must be healed.

Dr. Rhiannon Lloyd began developing our approach to reconciliation in Rwanda in the wake of the horrific genocide of 1994.  Today the workshop she developed is being run actively by Africans in Rwanda, Congo, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Southern Sudan.  In addition, others have carried it around the world.

Dr. Joseph Nyamutera is a Rwandan pastor who lived through the pain of the genocide.  He became Le Rucher Ministries director for Rwanda and East Africa.

He worked for many years with Rhiannon and now spends much of his time training others to lead workshops throughout the world.    At the same time, he has been and still is the Director of Reconciliation for Mercy Ministries International.  He is key to the development of Healing Hearts Transforming Nations Global.

Rwanda

We first got involved with the ministry of reconciliation in Rwanda in 2001 and opened a regional office in Kigali in 2006 run by Joseph Nyamutera to serve the many teams working around the region in reconciliation.  Our goal was always to see the team in Kigali operate as a separate entity and in 2016 we were pleased to release them to open a new ministry called “Rabagirana Ministry” doing even more in the region and expanding around the globe.  We continue to work with them as a partnering organization. 

Today Rabagirana Ministries has a physical center where they run international reconciliation schools, Bible training, simple skills training for the poor in their community, run ethnic reconciliation workshops in prisons, produce reconciliation music cd’s and dvd’s, showcase positive signs of reconciliation and work with community development projects–just to name a few things they are doing!  It is exciting to see the next generation taking over the ministry – many were not born in 1994 or were very small children.  Now they carry the torch to see reconciliation and healing continue to grow in their nation.