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Missionaries to Rwanda
Name:
Tim and Jessica Brubaker
Mission
pour la Nouvelle Creature
B.P.
6244
Kigali,
Rwanda
Agency:
WorldVenture
www.ncmrwanda.org/brubaker
Country:
Rwanda
Fast Facts
& Relationship to SVBC
Birthday: Tim (January
11),
Jessica (January 2)
Anniversary:
(May 23, 1998)
Family: Thomas
(October 15), Martin (May 29), Cecilia (November 10)
Relationship to SVBC:
Tim began attending SVBC as a student
at Moody Bible Institute in 1996. He served as a volunteer in
youth ministry, as an intern and as youth pastor in 2002. He
received his M.Div from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in
2002. Jessica graduated from MBI in 2000 and received a MA in
English literature in 2002 from DePaul University. She was
active in youth ministry, women’s ministry and the missions
team. SVBC is their home church.
Ministry Experience:
Tim served as Youth Pastor for 2 years
at SVBC. He was involved in short term missions to Brazil and
Rwanda. Jessica was involved in short term missions to India
and Rwanda.
General Prayer
Requests: Pray for wisdom, creativity, and time
efficiency in preparing and teaching lessons in Kinyarwanda.
Pray for Tim as he balances new responsibilities of leading
MNC’s ministries. Pray for the health of Tim, Jessica and their
children.
1-18-08
Dear Praying Friends,
We are two weeks
through our three week session of teaching thirty-six pastors
representing churches from all over Rwanda and Burundi. We’ve
been teaching two lessons – (1) The True Gospel (taught by me);
(2) The Christian Life (taught by Gary Scheer). The lessons
have really complemented each other, with the main idea being to
explain what it means to be a Christian, from the very
start.
Today, after two weeks of talking about why we need to be saved
and how God has made salvation possible in Christ, one pastor
stood up and said openly, “Many of us are pastors, but in these
two weeks we’ve found out that we aren’t even Christians.” The
others were nodding their heads in agreement. It was a
powerful moment. Personally, I wrestled with how to
respond. But, seeing that we had just finished teaching that
all those who repent and believe in Jesus as their Lord and
Savior are saved, I felt that the only option was to invite them
to publicly respond to God’s invitation to be saved. Twenty-two
pastors stood up, wanting to publically confess their faith in
Jesus. Imagine: Pastors and denominational leaders from all
over Rwanda and Burundi stood up before their peers to publicly
confess that they are believing in Jesus for salvation in a way
that they had never done or understood before. For about forty
minutes we prayed together as a class – some weeping, all of us
praising God for His grace in saving sinners like us.
Please keep praying. Imagine what churches across this country
must be like if their pastors are not yet believing in Jesus for
salvation! We have one week left before they go home. Pray
that during this last week they will continue to grow and learn
how to communicate to others what they’ve come to understand.
Pray that the truth of Scripture would have deep roots within
their lives. And, pray that this work of God in their lives
would bear much fruit in the churches they oversee.
Marveling at the work of God,
Tim
Again, thanks for your prayers and support.
Tim Brubaker |
