Tag: rwanda

Pastor Errol Webster addresses the million-dollar question.

An Australian pastor baptised more than 300 people in what has been described as “the largest baptism in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.”

Remarkable stories emerge from a landmark event that local church leaders say was fueled by Total Member Involvement.

Nearly 30,000 people have been baptised partway through a Seventh-day Adventist evangelistic series in Rwanda, putting the local church on course to reach 100,000 baptisms by next weekend.

Kenya’s president has praised the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a major force in improving the African country and donated $US22,000 toward a new health science building at the Adventist University of Africa.

On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the president of Rwanda was shot down by persons unknown. The death triggered 100 days of genocidal massacre in the unstable country, as Hutu extremists and government troops turned their rage on Tutsi civilians.

Seventh-day Adventists in Rwanda are committed to bolstering society and bringing unity and reconciliation to the East African nation, world church President Ted N. C. Wilson said during an official visit last week.