Early on the evening of April 6, 1994 Rwandan President Juvénal
Habyarimana and Burundian
President Cyprien Ntaryamira
died when a missile shot down their airplane in Kigali, Rwanda in what was
determined to be the pretext of The Rwandan Genocide. Over the course of the
next 100 days almost one million people lost their lives to a machete in one of
the worst humanitarian crisis of our lifetime.
Carl Wilkens
was the only American to stay in Rwanda during those 100 days. With chaos and
terror exploding outside his door, he was terrified, but he says he told God if
he died, he would trust him. “That’s
when I felt freed from fear, “ he says.
Carl’s telling
of his own experiences in Rwanda puts a human face on genocide, showing us that
the perpetrators, victims and resistors will not soon be forgotten. He is a internationally-recognized expert and
activist believing strongly that popular groundswells for change are born when
individuals look outside of themselves and reach out to one another. “We need to live for each other," Carl has said.
April 6, 2013,
on the 19th anniversary of The Rwandan Genocide, please join the San
Marcos Seventh-day Adventist Church to hear Mr. Wilken’s along with True
Vineyard Ministries’ Executive Director, Diana Wiley, for an open forum. The forum discussion will be held at 10:00 am,
followed by a formal presentation by Mr. Wilkens at 11:00 am.
San Marcos Seventh-day
Adventist Church
1523 Old Ranch Road
12
San Marcos,
Texas 78666
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