Just Hello

Hello,

It's been a while since I last posted. Nothing to profound to say here. Things are moving quite rapidly and I cannot believe that in four months time I'll be a married woman! Some highlight in regards to my personal life:

- Found an older woman who is in my church home group to mentor me, very excited! I love how she lives her life - she's pretty intense, but she lives out her faith radically, which I'm excited to learn about... She's not into being a Christian but having every whim of her comforts met.

- Had a difficult week with a potential funder for one of the orgs I work for. Lesson learned: do not DO things for the Rwandans you're working for... Work ALONG SIDE THEM. If they ask you to write an article, try to have someone sit down with you while you do it. If you write a proposal, make sure the employees have that thing memorized. It's easy to do thing for people here and mislabel it as "serving."It's about the teaching process.

- LOVING my housemates. Have not been exposed to a community like this in a really long time. The girls I'm surrounded by are extremely intentional with diving into each others hearts and spiritual lives. We walk by each other faithfully through everyone's struggles, and are committed to group prayer. We're all super different are aren't attached to the hip, our purpose with each other is merely to support and encourage each other... well we also have a lot of fun together as well! We are starting the Alpha Course tonight in our house, so I'm excited! It's a course that teaches the basic facts about Christianity. No muss, no fuss.

- Excited that my MOM will be in Rwanda in a few weeks! Going to be a pure blast, so fun to explore with her, will be sure to be a hilarious time.

- It's fun to hear about John's first few days in Australia. Haven't had a chance to speak with him too in depth since he is in the thick of trying to find housing and getting settled, but it's still great to know he's having this experience!

- Will be moving to Australia shortly. Any job recommendations? So far I have: Waitress, and a caretaker in an Assisted Living home (work in a home of an old person)...., and of course, I will volunteer for Prison Fellowship Australia.

- My Kinyarwanda is getting pretty darn good if I say so myself. But don't ask me to speak it when I'm in the States, it will be promptly out of my head.

- Leading the strategic planning train at PFR. Yikes! Not much experience in this area, and I'm sure to be learning a lot! Prayers requested for this venture.

Much love,

Rachel