Rutikanga is a wonderful man that we have been getting to know for the past couple of years. He is a member and a leader of the Musovu Friends Church, one of the churches that we are working with in Discipling for Development (D for D).
Rutikanga with some others from the Musovu Friends ChurchIn 2008, through attending and learning in the first D for D Foundations seminar, Rutikanga discovered that he can use the small amount of resources he already has to give birth to more! So soon after the training he gathered some people from their church and others from the surrounding community and they started an association to help each other build their own houses!
There are 16 people in the association and a month ago the association invited us to come and be a part of their meeting where they were celebrating the completion of 4 more houses! Now they have built houses for 13 out of the 16 people in their group!!! Wow! What an amazing way to love and serve each other! Some of these women have never had a home of their own. Others lived in dilapidated houses with grass and other things serving as their roofs. But now they have their own homes with tin roofs! The local government has seen what this group is doing and has praised the group, saying that they wish more people would work together like this association. We believe that God is being glorified in a very tangible way in that community and that our friends are preaching the good news of God's love for everyone in part through loving their neighbors! May each of us love our families, friends and neighbors into the life and peace with Jesus through showing His incredible love to them!
Rutikanga with some others from the Musovu Friends Church
There are 16 people in the association and a month ago the association invited us to come and be a part of their meeting where they were celebrating the completion of 4 more houses! Now they have built houses for 13 out of the 16 people in their group!!! Wow! What an amazing way to love and serve each other! Some of these women have never had a home of their own. Others lived in dilapidated houses with grass and other things serving as their roofs. But now they have their own homes with tin roofs! The local government has seen what this group is doing and has praised the group, saying that they wish more people would work together like this association. We believe that God is being glorified in a very tangible way in that community and that our friends are preaching the good news of God's love for everyone in part through loving their neighbors! May each of us love our families, friends and neighbors into the life and peace with Jesus through showing His incredible love to them!
