BY:igihe.com Reporter
The overseer of Zion Temple churches Apostle Paul Gitwaza has said that over 1000 people have benefited from the annual conference dubbed Africa Haguruka translated as ‘Africa Rise’.
They have been removed from the streets and put back to school while others trained and facilitated to begin small scale businesses.
Almost all of those who benefited live in the vicinity where the church is located in Gatenga sector community, Kicukiro District.
“We have workshops the whole week that help in training business, youth, women, and politicians in leadership positions to improve on what they are doing and preparing them in what they are planning to do or encourage those that have not yet decided what to do,” Gitwaza has said in interview.
The conference is annually organized in August with different themes aimed at encouraging, training and evangelizing the society to change both spiritually and mentality.
The 12th conference since 2000 had the theme “Invading nations with Kingdom Culture”.
Zion Temple has also spread to other parts of the world including USA, France and Belgium among other parts.
A one week conference ended today (Sunday) in a huge celebration at Zion Temple Headquarters at Gatenga sector, Kicukiro District and attracted thousands of followers from Kigali and from some African countries and as far as USA .
According to Gitwaza, hundreds of people benefited by improving their livelihoods from poverty including those who were removed from streets to schools, others beginning small scale businesses, and from prostitution now tailors.
Gitwaza says the conference also contributed in the changing of negative perceptions about Rwanda’s image as international preachers flown in and taking back the positive image Rwanda had developed.
“One of our primary goal when we started this conference was to export the Image of Rwanda especially unity and reconciliation that was taking part in the country then where survivors of 1994 Genocide were unifying and reconciling with perpetrators of the Genocide,” He added.
In related development the church has grown and has established Health Center in Gatenga benefiting about 48,000 people in the community, 200 families with health insurance (Mituel de Sante) catered for and a nine year basic education primary school.
During the conference, different church members distributed themselves in different parts for outreach including prisons where they have encouraged inmates to tell the truth, generosity to the refugees in camps and communities with gangs and prostitutes to leave their ways under the philosophy that a church should carry such transforming gospel.
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