R W A N D A | February 20
A RSENE
MISSIONARY TO L OUISE Today’s story is about Arsene [ar-SEEN], a boy who lives in Kigali [kee-GAH-lee], Rwanda. [Locate Rwanda on a map.] Arsene’s family is Adventist, and he attends an Adventist school. The government wants every child in Rwanda to attend school, so it pays teachers’ salaries, even in church schools. And parents can choose the school that they want their child to attend. So lots of children in Arsene’s Adventist school are not from MISSION POST Adventist homes. This makes the school truly a mission school.
ADVENTIST MISSION East-Central Africa Division
¾ Of the nearly 10 million people in Rwanda, 445,556 are Seventh-day Adventists. This means that one person out of every 22 people in Rwanda is a Seventh-day Adventist.
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¾ Training children and young people to share their faith and serve God as adults is important. Part of this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will help train children’s leaders and provide them with materials to teach children how to share their faith and live for Jesus. Our offering will also help build a church/ multipurpose building at the Adventist university in Kigali. ¾ For more information on these projects, check out the Adventist Mission DVD at http://MissionDVD.org.
Louise One of Arsene’s classmates is Louise, whose family didn’t follow any religion or attend any church. So Arsene asked Louise to attend church with his family. He told her about the interesting things children do in Sabbath School, and Louise agreed to go. On Sabbath morning Arsene walked with Louise to church. It wasn’t very far. Arsene introduced Louise to some of the children in Sabbath School. They greeted her with smiles and told her they were glad she had come.