We humbly ask that you consider partnering with TVM through a year-end gift or a monthly pledge that will make a lasting difference in the lives of Rwanda's most vulnerable. Your monthly commitment of $35 allows us to hire one widow. A year-end contribution of $420 sponsors a widow for an entire year, and $100 purchases a sheep for our flock. You can read more about different levels of engagement with TVM on the "Take Action" tab and you can also give online under the "Give" tab at the top of the page. We are grateful for your continued support in 2012 and look forward to partnering with you again in 2013!
Year-End Gifts
We are grateful for all of you who have volunteered, prayed or financially supported True Vineyard Ministries and our project, Handspun Hope in 2012. It truly takes many people to rescue these women from extreme poverty and honor Jesus Christ, who has called us to work on behalf of the widow in Rwanda.
We humbly ask that you consider partnering with TVM through a year-end gift or a monthly pledge that will make a lasting difference in the lives of Rwanda's most vulnerable. Your monthly commitment of $35 allows us to hire one widow. A year-end contribution of $420 sponsors a widow for an entire year, and $100 purchases a sheep for our flock. You can read more about different levels of engagement with TVM on the "Take Action" tab and you can also give online under the "Give" tab at the top of the page. We are grateful for your continued support in 2012 and look forward to partnering with you again in 2013!
We humbly ask that you consider partnering with TVM through a year-end gift or a monthly pledge that will make a lasting difference in the lives of Rwanda's most vulnerable. Your monthly commitment of $35 allows us to hire one widow. A year-end contribution of $420 sponsors a widow for an entire year, and $100 purchases a sheep for our flock. You can read more about different levels of engagement with TVM on the "Take Action" tab and you can also give online under the "Give" tab at the top of the page. We are grateful for your continued support in 2012 and look forward to partnering with you again in 2013!
True Vineyard Presents Don Piper!
We are blessed to again present our friend and New York Times Best-Selling Author of 90 Minutes in Heaven, Don Piper! Please join us for one of Don's FREE speaking engagements on December 16 at First United Methodist Church of Corpus Christi, December 17 at First Baptist Church of San Marcos or December 18 at Lakeside Pavilion (presented by Cross Stone Church) in Marble Falls! Check out the News & Media tab for all the detailed information!
Christmastime Trunk Show!
Please join us for our 6th Annual, Christmastime
Trunk Show at The Vineyard Marketplace in San Marcos this Tuesday, December 4 from 5:30 until
9:00 PM! It’s a great way to support our
ministry and help us champion so many other widow and orphan organizations! Come SHOP for GOOD and see our newest
collections during this fun and festive time!
Also, be sure to check our calendar for December! True Vineyard Ministries will be at several
local fair-trade markets all over the Central Texas area!
The Shepherdess & Rwandan Yarn
True Vineyard Ministries is pleased to
introduce the newest member of our team, Katie Scrafford of Albany, New York!
Katie, a licensed counselor and former shepherdess for Longridge Farm in
Westmoreland, NH has worked for International Justice Mission in Kigali, Rwanda
for the past year. She is home now,
preparing and personally raising financial support for the next calling God has
purposed for her life – that is to volunteer for TVM fulltime! We are so blessed and very excited about her
presence on our behalf in Rwanda!
Katie will be arriving in
Central Texas this week and will spend one week here, learning more about our
organization and the goals we have for Handspun Hope. Katie will take one-on-one spinning wheel
classes as well as needle felting classes so that she can help us continue to
improve the quality and product range of our beautiful Rwandan yarn.
Katie has first hand
knowledge of caring for sheep as well as skills to better prepare the wool for
yarn production. Additionally, Katie is learning the miraculous and tedious
task of growing and dyeing with Indigo, a natural blue that we hope to add to
our beautiful palette of Rwandan yarn in the coming months.
Please join us in welcoming
Katie to our TVM team!
More of Handspun Hope
Since the very first trip I took
to Rwanda in June 2007, God’s vision for True Vineyard Ministries (TVM) has
been about providing sustainability to marginalized widows through
transformation found only in Jesus Christ. Our mission has never changed
although the vehicles of how God expanded the vision has.
I smile at how God used sheep
from the very first time I set my feet in Musanze, Rwanda. Thomas, who is now the Rwanda Country
Director for TVM, was one of my translators on the visionary trip arranged
through World Relief Organization (WRO) by my good friends, Phil and Becca
Smith. On this first trip, Thomas
introduced me to many widows who had no hope. He also introduced me to a flock of sheep
through a livestock-sharing project that WRO had developed through a tiny
Baptist church.
Somewhere in my collection of
dusty Super-8 videotapes is a recording of my very first encounter with Rwandan
sheep. It goes something like this:
Diana: Thomas, what do they
do with these sheep?
Thomas: They eat them!
Diana: Really? You know you can make stuff out of their fur?
Thomas: Oh Diana, you must
find out and tell me how this is done!
Yep, that’s the innocent
conversation that steered our hearts for God to become all about widows, sheep
and yarn! Since then, I’ve leaned on many yarn and wool experts, from natural
dyers to sheep specialists at major universities and even a sheep-shearing champion. God has set many divine appointments along
the way, including a relationship with our partners at KidKnits, who have been
our exclusive customers for marketing the yarn in craft kits for the past 2
years.
Spinning wool into yarn is
the vehicle God has consistently asked us to use to bring about real
transformation and healing to the 35 widows employed full-time by TVM in northern Rwanda. It has equipped them with a rare skill that has allowed them a
way to provide for themselves and their families and take a turn away from
poverty. However, the success of our program is owed to God only. It is for his glorification that we exist,
and I believe this is why he continues to enlarge our territory.
Now, God is asking TVM to
trust him again as we begin to create a broader market for this incredible
yarn. We believe the yarn will be
another way of reaching others with stories of the amazing life transformations
God is doing in Rwanda. This fall, we are thrilled to announce that our
Handspun Hope project will expand, and TVM will directly market a variety of
different gauged yarns more suitable for crocheting and knitting! These yarns
will be available online and through our fair trade store, The Vineyard
Marketplace in San Marcos, TX.
We ask for your continued
prayers for our organization and for God to richly impact those that True Vineyard
Ministries is serving.
Be blessed!
Diana Wiley
Executive Director
Miracles
This trip, like many before, has been one of special memories that will forever be etched in my mind. Each team experience is as unique as the individuals themselves. I love watching their excitement as they experience and anticipate each new moment, but I especially love watching their God-given gifts come to surface.
I arrived in Rwanda about two weeks ahead of the team in order to work on some things that needed my undivided attention. I was blessed to be able to stay with my precious friends, Kim and Jock who head up the national cycing team here, Team Rwanda. They were preparing to take one of their riders, Adrien Niyonshuti to London as he has qualified for the 2012 Olympics. While staying with them, I also met one of their volunteers, Jo, who was here to teach English to the team of 18 riders.
Jo, never having been to Rwanda or Africa was also thrilled with every new experience. Her sense of adventure built as each new day passed. I invited Jo to come and meet the ladies, and see our 2 farms at Susa and Kinigi and she kept telling me “how huge” our work is here in Rwanda and kept asking me how I had done all of this… I was clear to let her know it was not me but God’s power within me and our organization that is changing the lives of hundreds of people in Northern Rwanda. Jo and I had long talks about Christianity and the difference between religion and a relationship with Christ. As the days passed, we became good friends and when the TVM team was arriving into Kigali, Jo joined me to greet them.
Everyone instantly loved Jo and enjoyed being around her so the following Sunday afternoon we invited her to go to Imbabazi Orphanage with us. Imbabazi is famous for it’s founder, an American woman, Rosamond Carr, who died here at the age of 94. Carr is the author of Land of a Thousand Hills. We had a glorious afternoon…full of adventure…until our taxi ride home.
As I have seen in many parts of Africa, little vans that are meant to hold 16 people are jammed with 24 or so and this taxi was no different. The team, along with Jo was sitting on the back two seats with other Rwandans. We think we were going about 40 miles an hour when the van struck a little girl about 4 years old.
Unfortunately, this was my second time to be involved in a pedestrian accident here. It was horrific. As we looked back through the back window, we could see the little girl’s lifeless body in the road. Women were screaming and instant panic filled the van as our team began to pray. When I went to grab my phone to call for more prayer, I heard God telling me to pray so I put my phone away and begin calling out to God with the rest of the team. I kept thinking about Don Piper’s amazing testimony that he delivered for True Vineyard back in May. No, Diana. You pray.
Jo was hysterical. Hands of local Rwandans came up to the windows from outside trying to comfort her to no avail. The team also began praying for Jo to have comfort. I realized at that moment, as a believer, I will have peace and acceptance no matter what happens to the little girl. She will be with Jesus or she will live…but either way…she will live.
As the van backed up, her mother scooped the little girl into her arms and jumped in the front seat. The van, still full of passengers rushed off the main road in search of a clinic that was about 5 kilometers away in a very rural area. We continued to pray and Jo continued to sob. It’s hard to understand but our hearts were breaking for Jo.
When we arrived at the clinic, the driver helped the mom out of the car with the little girl. When we saw the child, she was conscious and there was a large scrape on her face but there was no blood. I am certainly not a doctor but I assumed that she was in shock…but I was surprised to see her eyes opened. Where we witnessing a miracle? Was God truly answering our prayers?
The taxi driver returned to the car and drove us back to the main road and put us on another taxi to return home to Musanze. All we could do was pray that she was going to be okay...but would we ever really know? Rwanda is so densely populated and 98% of the population do not own a car…thousands walk the roads everyday which is why there is such a high rate of pedestrian accidents.
We continued on to Musanze with very heavy hearts but still in prayer. Before Jo got out of the car, she reminded me of a story we had heard of a young man in Musanze conversing with a lady from South Africa. The boy had told her “that his English had poverty”, which meant he felt is English was poor. Jo told me that her faith “had poverty” and it broke my heart. We dropped Jo off and continued praying for the little girl and for Jo to find peace.
That night, all of us laid awake at night praying. The next morning we continued to pray but specifically ask God for us to miraculously find out the little girls condition. Not knowing the name of the rural clinic where she was taken would make it almost impossible. When I ask my contacts in Musanze for help, I was told that she would have been transported to the hospital here if her injuries were serious. The team continued to believe we would not find her at the hospital but we were motivated to find out. Honestly, we believed we needed to know the truth so we could show Jo the miracle that we believed God for.
When I told Simon (our staff manager) where we had been…he thought he knew the clinic and after the ladies went home that afternoon, we went to the Musanze Hospital. We were so fortunate to find an administrator who was willing to help us search the hospital. The large community hospital rooms were full of people but no staff member remembered the little girl arriving. We were so hopeful.
The administrator was so helpful and truly wanted to help us find her. He started making calls and in his Kinyarwanda language we heard him say something about mzungus (white people) in a taxi. He had located the clinic and was told the little girl left the clinic that morning, uninjured.
I can’t tell you the joy we had at that moment…but now to tell Jo. As it happened, it was Jo's last night in Rwanda and it was her birthday. We had invited her over for dinner and to celebrate but the best celebration was telling her we knew the little girl was fine.
As horrible as the incident was…it was such a testimony to how God answers those who pray. I think not only about the testimony it was to Jo but the testimony it must have been for the driver and all of the others on the bus that day. It will continue to be only part of the story of how we saw God moving in Rwanda this week.
I arrived in Rwanda about two weeks ahead of the team in order to work on some things that needed my undivided attention. I was blessed to be able to stay with my precious friends, Kim and Jock who head up the national cycing team here, Team Rwanda. They were preparing to take one of their riders, Adrien Niyonshuti to London as he has qualified for the 2012 Olympics. While staying with them, I also met one of their volunteers, Jo, who was here to teach English to the team of 18 riders.
Jo, never having been to Rwanda or Africa was also thrilled with every new experience. Her sense of adventure built as each new day passed. I invited Jo to come and meet the ladies, and see our 2 farms at Susa and Kinigi and she kept telling me “how huge” our work is here in Rwanda and kept asking me how I had done all of this… I was clear to let her know it was not me but God’s power within me and our organization that is changing the lives of hundreds of people in Northern Rwanda. Jo and I had long talks about Christianity and the difference between religion and a relationship with Christ. As the days passed, we became good friends and when the TVM team was arriving into Kigali, Jo joined me to greet them.
Everyone instantly loved Jo and enjoyed being around her so the following Sunday afternoon we invited her to go to Imbabazi Orphanage with us. Imbabazi is famous for it’s founder, an American woman, Rosamond Carr, who died here at the age of 94. Carr is the author of Land of a Thousand Hills. We had a glorious afternoon…full of adventure…until our taxi ride home.
As I have seen in many parts of Africa, little vans that are meant to hold 16 people are jammed with 24 or so and this taxi was no different. The team, along with Jo was sitting on the back two seats with other Rwandans. We think we were going about 40 miles an hour when the van struck a little girl about 4 years old.
Unfortunately, this was my second time to be involved in a pedestrian accident here. It was horrific. As we looked back through the back window, we could see the little girl’s lifeless body in the road. Women were screaming and instant panic filled the van as our team began to pray. When I went to grab my phone to call for more prayer, I heard God telling me to pray so I put my phone away and begin calling out to God with the rest of the team. I kept thinking about Don Piper’s amazing testimony that he delivered for True Vineyard back in May. No, Diana. You pray.
Jo was hysterical. Hands of local Rwandans came up to the windows from outside trying to comfort her to no avail. The team also began praying for Jo to have comfort. I realized at that moment, as a believer, I will have peace and acceptance no matter what happens to the little girl. She will be with Jesus or she will live…but either way…she will live.
As the van backed up, her mother scooped the little girl into her arms and jumped in the front seat. The van, still full of passengers rushed off the main road in search of a clinic that was about 5 kilometers away in a very rural area. We continued to pray and Jo continued to sob. It’s hard to understand but our hearts were breaking for Jo.
When we arrived at the clinic, the driver helped the mom out of the car with the little girl. When we saw the child, she was conscious and there was a large scrape on her face but there was no blood. I am certainly not a doctor but I assumed that she was in shock…but I was surprised to see her eyes opened. Where we witnessing a miracle? Was God truly answering our prayers?
The taxi driver returned to the car and drove us back to the main road and put us on another taxi to return home to Musanze. All we could do was pray that she was going to be okay...but would we ever really know? Rwanda is so densely populated and 98% of the population do not own a car…thousands walk the roads everyday which is why there is such a high rate of pedestrian accidents.
We continued on to Musanze with very heavy hearts but still in prayer. Before Jo got out of the car, she reminded me of a story we had heard of a young man in Musanze conversing with a lady from South Africa. The boy had told her “that his English had poverty”, which meant he felt is English was poor. Jo told me that her faith “had poverty” and it broke my heart. We dropped Jo off and continued praying for the little girl and for Jo to find peace.
That night, all of us laid awake at night praying. The next morning we continued to pray but specifically ask God for us to miraculously find out the little girls condition. Not knowing the name of the rural clinic where she was taken would make it almost impossible. When I ask my contacts in Musanze for help, I was told that she would have been transported to the hospital here if her injuries were serious. The team continued to believe we would not find her at the hospital but we were motivated to find out. Honestly, we believed we needed to know the truth so we could show Jo the miracle that we believed God for.
When I told Simon (our staff manager) where we had been…he thought he knew the clinic and after the ladies went home that afternoon, we went to the Musanze Hospital. We were so fortunate to find an administrator who was willing to help us search the hospital. The large community hospital rooms were full of people but no staff member remembered the little girl arriving. We were so hopeful.
The administrator was so helpful and truly wanted to help us find her. He started making calls and in his Kinyarwanda language we heard him say something about mzungus (white people) in a taxi. He had located the clinic and was told the little girl left the clinic that morning, uninjured.
I can’t tell you the joy we had at that moment…but now to tell Jo. As it happened, it was Jo's last night in Rwanda and it was her birthday. We had invited her over for dinner and to celebrate but the best celebration was telling her we knew the little girl was fine.
As horrible as the incident was…it was such a testimony to how God answers those who pray. I think not only about the testimony it was to Jo but the testimony it must have been for the driver and all of the others on the bus that day. It will continue to be only part of the story of how we saw God moving in Rwanda this week.
July 2012 Mission Team Has Arrived!
The mission team for this summer has arrived in Kigali. Everyone is safe and happy to be in Rwanda! Diana met the team at the airport and they promptly got in a car and are driving straight to Musanze, where the True Vineyard Ministries organization is headquartered.
There is a lot to be said about God's timing for this small mission team made up of the incredible "road warriors," Josh, Stacie, and Lisa. All three of them have been friends and supporters of True Vineyard Ministries for many years. They patiently waited for God to give them the "green light" as many other teams came and went to Rwanda. Now is their time! And it is such a perfect time for them to go after True Vineyard just hired six more women, bringing the total number to 34 widows. All three of them will have the incredible opportunity to meet all 34 widows who are hired by True Vineyard Ministries and spend some of their days side-by-side with the women getting to know them, helping with yarn production, and learning Kinyarwanda!
They will also have the opportunity to get their hands dirty and help with some much-needed construction projects for True Vineyard! As many of you know, True Vineyard has expanded our land because our sheep continue to multiply, which means they need more room for grazing. TVM has signed a five-year lease on a spacious piece of property where the sheep can safely graze and have ample space to reproduce. The mission team will be helping erect a sheep shed and also help with any additional work that needs to be done to the newly constructed fence around the property. Building and construction projects are always incredible, because dozens of local Rwandans come out to help or are hired for the day. Many of the local Rwandan children come by to see everyone working, and it is a really amazing way for the mission team members to meet more Rwandans and sing songs together, laugh, and play in between the hard work.
This mission team has an exciting adventure ahead of them and they are looking forward to what the Lord will be teaching them as they serve the least of these in the mountains of Northern Rwanda.
Please keep the mission team in your prayers as they get settled into a new culture and get ready to serve!
Thank you friends for all of your support and encouragement of the work TVM is doing in Rwanda.
There is a lot to be said about God's timing for this small mission team made up of the incredible "road warriors," Josh, Stacie, and Lisa. All three of them have been friends and supporters of True Vineyard Ministries for many years. They patiently waited for God to give them the "green light" as many other teams came and went to Rwanda. Now is their time! And it is such a perfect time for them to go after True Vineyard just hired six more women, bringing the total number to 34 widows. All three of them will have the incredible opportunity to meet all 34 widows who are hired by True Vineyard Ministries and spend some of their days side-by-side with the women getting to know them, helping with yarn production, and learning Kinyarwanda!
They will also have the opportunity to get their hands dirty and help with some much-needed construction projects for True Vineyard! As many of you know, True Vineyard has expanded our land because our sheep continue to multiply, which means they need more room for grazing. TVM has signed a five-year lease on a spacious piece of property where the sheep can safely graze and have ample space to reproduce. The mission team will be helping erect a sheep shed and also help with any additional work that needs to be done to the newly constructed fence around the property. Building and construction projects are always incredible, because dozens of local Rwandans come out to help or are hired for the day. Many of the local Rwandan children come by to see everyone working, and it is a really amazing way for the mission team members to meet more Rwandans and sing songs together, laugh, and play in between the hard work.
This mission team has an exciting adventure ahead of them and they are looking forward to what the Lord will be teaching them as they serve the least of these in the mountains of Northern Rwanda.
Please keep the mission team in your prayers as they get settled into a new culture and get ready to serve!
Thank you friends for all of your support and encouragement of the work TVM is doing in Rwanda.
Murakoze to Don Piper and YOU!
True Vineyard Ministries wants to give a big Rwandan "MURAKOZE" ("Thank you" in Kinyarwanda!) to Don Piper and Don Piper Ministries. Thank you for coming to Central Texas to share your incredible story and to help raise greater awareness and support for True Vineyard's work in Rwanda. We also want to thank all the individuals who came to attend the event either in San Antonio, Austin, and New Braunfels. We hope his story touched your lives the way it touches ours!
In just three evenings, Don spoke in San Antonio, Austin,
and New Braunfels reaching well over 500 people! At the end of each event, Don offered prayer and encouragement to people struggling with difficult
times, and people came forward to receive Jesus into their lives.
It is miraculous that Don Piper came to Central Texas just a
few weeks after True Vineyard Ministries hired SIX new women! In the three days
that Don spoke, six of our newest women received sponsors as did more women. When you
sponsor a widow, your monthly giving allows a widow to work in a holistic work
environment that provides her with spiritual and emotional support, health
insurance, and a steady salary. Through your support she is empowered to
provide for her own needs and provide for the needs of her children.True Vineyard Ministries is grateful for the people who
stepped up to sponsor a widow this past week. If you feel like you would like
to sponsor a widow, there are still women who need a friend and a partner in
their journey out of poverty. Click here to sponsor a widow.
In just three evenings, Don spoke in San Antonio, Austin,
and New Braunfels reaching well over 500 people! At the end of each event, Don offered prayer and encouragement to people struggling with difficult
times, and people came forward to receive Jesus into their lives. 
It is miraculous that Don Piper came to Central Texas just a
few weeks after True Vineyard Ministries hired SIX new women! In the three days
that Don spoke, six of our newest women received sponsors as did more women. When you
sponsor a widow, your monthly giving allows a widow to work in a holistic work
environment that provides her with spiritual and emotional support, health
insurance, and a steady salary. Through your support she is empowered to
provide for her own needs and provide for the needs of her children.True Vineyard Ministries is grateful for the people who
stepped up to sponsor a widow this past week. If you feel like you would like
to sponsor a widow, there are still women who need a friend and a partner in
their journey out of poverty. Click here to sponsor a widow.
Don Piper, your story is an inspiration, and we thank you
for your courage in sharing it with the world.
TVM Partners with Don Piper!
Don't miss this incredible event at a location near you! Click on "News and Media" tab for details!
A Special Day For Mothers
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What April Means to Us
As
we find ourselves at the end of April 2012, we at TVM hold in our hearts the nearly one
million Rwandans who were slaughtered 18
years ago beginning on that horrific day on April 6, 1994. The entire
country observes April as the month of mourning, recalling the overbearing grief that still visits the
country most heavily every April.
In spite of the pain that still lingers in the hearts of most Rwandans, we move forward with hope towards a united and peaceful Rwanda. It is already happening. We see reconciliation happening through the relationships between the women at True Vineyard Ministries. Our 28 women are made up of the three Rwandan tribal groups: Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa (a small minority in Rwanda). We are overjoyed to watch them operate in peace, love, and fellowship with one another.
Through their friendship and teamwork in their fight against poverty, the widows at True Vineyard Ministries partake in something bigger than themselves. They are taking part in rebuilding Rwanda.
To learn more about the genocide and rebuilding of Rwanda, visit our About Rwanda page here.
In spite of the pain that still lingers in the hearts of most Rwandans, we move forward with hope towards a united and peaceful Rwanda. It is already happening. We see reconciliation happening through the relationships between the women at True Vineyard Ministries. Our 28 women are made up of the three Rwandan tribal groups: Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa (a small minority in Rwanda). We are overjoyed to watch them operate in peace, love, and fellowship with one another.
Through their friendship and teamwork in their fight against poverty, the widows at True Vineyard Ministries partake in something bigger than themselves. They are taking part in rebuilding Rwanda.
To learn more about the genocide and rebuilding of Rwanda, visit our About Rwanda page here.
March Mission Team Returned!
The March mission team returned from Rwanda just a couple weeks ago, and it was a fantastic trip! The small mission team of fence builders worked long, hard days to build a sturdy and safe chain link fence for our sheep to graze on a larger piece of land. This land is necessary for the health of the sheep offers them more space for the merino sheep to multiply!
Steve, Jeff, Chas, Jill, and Diana worked alongside 30-40 Rwandan construction workers each day. Our team provided the oversight and vision for the fence, but all of them - the Americans and the Rwandans together - were working long, hard days. Every time a construction teams comes to Rwanda, it is an incredible chance to employ eager and able Rwandan construction workers so they can take home above-average wages. It is also a wonderful chance for the mission team to connect with local Rwandans and share life with them for a period of time. This provides the entire team with a beautiful vision of what God is doing through True Vineyard Ministries: catalyzing transformation through work-based solutions to poverty.
At the end of the work days, everyone went to bed exhausted, but content. This is because building a fence for our merino sheep is another stake in the ground proclaiming the enduring impact of what True Vineyard Ministries is doing in Rwanda. Keeping our sheep healthy and safe is one link in the chain of transformational livelihood that is being developed in Musanze, Rwanda. The work that is provided to the shepherds, the widows, and our Rwandan managers through Handspun Hope is life-giving, purposeful, and a small piece of the puzzle that is moving Rwandans out of poverty and into empowerment.
Steve, Jeff, Chas, Jill, and Diana worked alongside 30-40 Rwandan construction workers each day. Our team provided the oversight and vision for the fence, but all of them - the Americans and the Rwandans together - were working long, hard days. Every time a construction teams comes to Rwanda, it is an incredible chance to employ eager and able Rwandan construction workers so they can take home above-average wages. It is also a wonderful chance for the mission team to connect with local Rwandans and share life with them for a period of time. This provides the entire team with a beautiful vision of what God is doing through True Vineyard Ministries: catalyzing transformation through work-based solutions to poverty.
At the end of the work days, everyone went to bed exhausted, but content. This is because building a fence for our merino sheep is another stake in the ground proclaiming the enduring impact of what True Vineyard Ministries is doing in Rwanda. Keeping our sheep healthy and safe is one link in the chain of transformational livelihood that is being developed in Musanze, Rwanda. The work that is provided to the shepherds, the widows, and our Rwandan managers through Handspun Hope is life-giving, purposeful, and a small piece of the puzzle that is moving Rwandans out of poverty and into empowerment.
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