Augustine's Church

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Some of my favorite stories of how aLn Gospel events impact a community is in the local church.  Rarely do we get to see the full impact but here is only one example of the rapid and drastic church growth as a result of the move of God in their town.  Pastor Augustine was pastoring in a small town east of Kigali Rwanda ( Kayonza).  His church was 4 years old with a congregation of about 30 people.  Financially he scrapped by running a few different businesses so he could build his church.  He took no salary from the church instead he personally paid for 85% of all the costs for his church's construction.

The first time I went to his church I preached to a group of about 35 people.  This was in February of 2010.  The music was lively and passionate and in the end 3 children and one young man decided to follow Jesus.  

I visited there again during the aLn Gospel Event in July of 2010.  I was amazed to see a church of over 100 people.  No longer worshiping on the dirt but instead a church with a cement floor and many chairs. 

I contacted Pastor Augustine in April of 2011 to see how the church had been growing.  He is so excited to say that he now has a church of over 300 people.  People are getting saved every sunday.  some months they need to do 2 baptism services to accommodate all the people surrendering their lives to serve God.