Reconciliation

Our main speaker at church was Evangelist Antoine Rutayisire from Rwanda. He has paid a high price to the ethnic hatred, seeing his father killed before his eyes, being stripped of his University position and, during the genocide, losing more than 10 family members. With his wife they took in several orphans. In the ensuing years he became involved in the reconciliation movement.

"How could it be that in a country where over 90% of the people go to Church we could suffer genocide and the death of over one million people?"        Antoine Rutayisire

He struggled with God's mandate to forgive and received the strength to forgive those who had wronged him so deeply. He traveled the whole country as Vice-President of the 'National Commission on Reconciliation' and, in later years, was given the opportunity to speak to members of the European Commission. He challenged us to be reconciled to God, to ourselves and to those close to us, to be instruments of reconciliation in society and to embrace the mandate to be reconcilers.

- Daniel and Myriam , Belgium

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