Hope Kwisera

Remember my blog about Tatiana, the woman of faith who was robbed of everything... but God?

Tatiana gave birth to a bautiful baby girl about 10 days ago. yes girl! The docters had the gender and due date wrong, but here she is.

When I met Tatiana about two months back, she had no hope, no future, no life. She refers to the stage I found her in as her animal stage. She wanted to die as she was desperate and overwhelmed with he poverty she found herself in. She used to live a middle class life style as the result of her succesful boutique. She was robbed off all she had by her husband to be, leaving her with no option but to find a shack to live in with no income. All she had was herself and God. She prayed every day for a change in her situation, but abandoned by friends and family she had lost convidence. Yet she trusted God would act on her behalf.

The day I walked into her small room, she saw answered prayer. She has prayed for me daily since then, she said today. And there has not been a day Tatiana has not been in my mind.

She cried today as she went through the boxes and bags of clothing for her and the baby and lots of food. Over and over she said; God be praised.... I am speech less... She thanks all the people who have prayed and send items with her in mind. It blessed her so much!

Someone has offered funds for her to be employed by us. With that a lasting answer has come for her provision. She was overjoyed with the news of a job and kept hugging me saying; Now I will be strong again.

KWISERA, Hope.

Tatiana made me speechless today as she told me somthing today that is hard to fathom. She said; this child is yours. I give it to you. Where ever you want to sent her she shall go and whatever you want to do with her I agree. You have been a mother to me, so now this child is yours...

You need to know that these are not just nice words, this is now a responsability I have. The expectation is that I care for Hope as if she would be mine. Wow...

Tatiana has asked me to name her baby. I had prayed and thought about a name and Tatiana's testimony said it all: Hope. Kwisera means Trust, it is the name she gave, and Kwisera will be the last name. Hope will be my contribution. I guess I became mother again today. What an opportunity. What a ministry.

Discipleship Training School in Rwanda

Didier, Jessica, Florah, Elis, Noel (from top row, left to right)

Chantel, Eric, me, Peter, Kim

Laura

Fufo, ?, Alfred

15 hours of teaching on one subject may get long, winded and boring. But when God shows up..... Wow!

My friend Elis from Brasil asked me to teach on the character and nature of God for a whole week in the Discipleship training school (DTS) from Youth with a mission (YWAM). This is the school and organization that the Lord used to get Trav and I together and where both of us were truly "baptized" into missions.

The class of 10 students, 6 Rwandese, one Burundian, A Korean, and two north americans were just wonderful. They desired to learn and "ate" up the words I spoke.

On Friday after the last teaching session we had a time of ministry. And wow! God showed up. The Lord touched some of the young orphaned girls and revealed himself to them, causing them to go from tears and screams of pain to dancing through the classroom with joy! A young man had lost his father during the war and the Lord revealed His father heart to him. Wow. What was to happen in 10 minutes lasted 2 hours. The Lord did amazing things. I love it when he shows up.

Please pray for this class. Many of them have been through severe trauma's in their lives, yet they survived and are now desperate for the Lord. They are an amazing class. I am looking forward to August when I get to be with them and teach them again. Pray that in the eman time the Lord will reveal himself more and more to them.