In about four weeks the early morning flight to Kigali will take off with me on board and a week after that it will bring Ruth and Susan over from South Wales to join me in the ministry centre at Kanombe.
Together we will be working with the deaf folk at the Mango Tree Church, which is a short distance from the ministry centre. We were all there seven months ago in April so we are eager to see how the sewing workshop is doing. We left them with quite a challenging task to try and build up their customer base for the crafts and baby clothes they are making at the church. Hopefully, while we are there, we will be able to see the workshop moved upstairs into a bigger work space as we have heard that the outside staircases now have safety handrails in place.
The main event is going to be a week of bible teaching, arts and crafts, games and good food for around fifty deaf young people to be held in the church. For me this is going to be a new challenge of communication as I have been taking British Sign Language classes at Donaldson's School for the Deaf in Linlithgow. Even though I am very much a beginner it will be fun to communicate in sign to our deaf friends. Many Rwandese signs are quite different but with Susan and Ruth's help and the confidence I have gained by going to these classes I am really looking forward to joining in with the teaching and the fun!
Together we will be working with the deaf folk at the Mango Tree Church, which is a short distance from the ministry centre. We were all there seven months ago in April so we are eager to see how the sewing workshop is doing. We left them with quite a challenging task to try and build up their customer base for the crafts and baby clothes they are making at the church. Hopefully, while we are there, we will be able to see the workshop moved upstairs into a bigger work space as we have heard that the outside staircases now have safety handrails in place.
The main event is going to be a week of bible teaching, arts and crafts, games and good food for around fifty deaf young people to be held in the church. For me this is going to be a new challenge of communication as I have been taking British Sign Language classes at Donaldson's School for the Deaf in Linlithgow. Even though I am very much a beginner it will be fun to communicate in sign to our deaf friends. Many Rwandese signs are quite different but with Susan and Ruth's help and the confidence I have gained by going to these classes I am really looking forward to joining in with the teaching and the fun!
