Ra's Life

Ra's Life My mission is http://capmer.org which is getting close to being ready to officially launch. Another fun thing in Rwanda is meeting expats who are here doing all sorts of things.

I have met many 'missionaries', some associated with particular churches (Rwanda religion profile: Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, and a couple % not attached to any).

One woman working in Ruhengeri, Martha, is an independent missionary. She has a masters degree in seminary but is unordained. She finds her own funding so has not overhead - all the funding she gets goes to her work. For the Episcopalian church she is writing a national curriculum for religious education - 6 of them - for grades 1 through 6 in English, just because there isn't one.

After it gets translated to Kinyarwanda language she will offer it to the church schools and hopes to have it adopted nationwide.

l miss the math tutoring I was doing every week in Ponte Vedra at the library. Volunteering and helping - even in a small way - is so rewarding - if you have a spare hour a week - see what you can do to help someone in your community - I guarantee you will (like the lawyer in "I am Sam") get more out of the relationships than those you help!