The Smyths

Tent Makers of Rwanda is working to spread the Gospel in Africa! To give all the opportunity to hear the Gospel message and recieve Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Our beginnings:

Tent Makers of Rwanda was established in 2005 with the Smyths arriving in Rwanda on Christmas day 2005.

Here is a summary of how we are ministering in Rwanda and our future plans for the ministry

Since we arrived almost 4 years ago we have been ministering in the areas of:

• Evangelism

• Discipleship

• Equipping and Empowering

• Outreaches to the communities

We plan on continuing to minister in each of the above areas; however we have plans to broaden each area of ministry in order to serve the people of Rwanda and to spread the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ further in Rwanda.

Evangelism: This past year while doing evangelistic outreaches into the communities of Rwanda. We have been able to share the Gospel message with over 75,000 people. We are working on a “pre-outreach” workshop for lay leaders so that more churches in the area of the outreaches will be involved. We believe this will increase not only the number who hear the Gospel but, this will increase the numbers who are followed up on and discipled. We are praying that 100,000 will be able to hear the Gospel in 2009.

Discipleship: Courses and seminars on the importance of discipleship are offered. Discipleship groups are taught to the Rwandan people on how to begin the multiplication discipleship process. We have also formed journaling groups in some of the churches. This has benefited many churches however, we realize that there is great demand for teaching the basic biblical truths and it tends to be time consuming.  Since this is a very valuable part of our ministry we are working on building a team to assist with this part of the ministry. In 2009 we are hoping to double the number of churches we serve in the area of discipleship.

Equipping and Empowering: We offer leadership training and provided resources to equip local leaders. We are working on ways to improve the process thus to reach more people with this materials. We at this time have translated Biblical study materials into the Kinyarwanda langauge. However, this area of ministry has been somewhat limited. We feel we can do more and pray that God will open the doors to allow us to do more of this work in the future.. .

Community Outreach: We minister to Orphanages, widows and street kids in various ways. We are looking to improve the life of the women and children by practical means. We attend to their medical and material needs as well as their spiritual needs. It’s our hearts desire to do more for the street boys and homeless woman than we are currently doing. We are praying to see what the Lord would have us to do for these homeless women and children.