Greetings From Gikomero! ~ Church Building Update

The progress on the church construction is moving forward partially due to the $12,000 gift from the Apostles Rwanda Fund.  The government several months ago told the parish that they needed to complete the construction by the end of July or risk the old building (still out of building conformance) being also closed.  The government has witnessed the progress and is not planning to take any such action now that the new building is moving forward so well.  Praise!  Much of the work is done by members of the congregation - the money is mainly for materials and some special sub contractors.

Words below from Marcel Sebahire at the Shyogwe Diocese and good friend of Apostles:

Greetings from Gikomero, your sister church.

We are very excited to share with you about the construction progress that we have done so far.

1. We have finished elevating the walls: The walls are now elevated and well finished;

2. We are done with plastering: The inside walls are all plastered;

3. We have put/installed all doors and windows;

4. We have installed the electrical wires: The rest is to connect the lambs and connect the church electricity system to the public grid;

5. We have finished digging the toilet pits: We are seeing how to construct the toilet building;

6. We have done outside finishing activities for all doors and windows

WHAT IS BEING DONE RIGHT NOW?

1. We are laying stones for pavement with cement

2. We are building the front (altar) and we will continue with tiling.

3. We are putting metal tubes in the two up-sides of the church building where the glasses will be installed.