The Good Shepherd Family praising God for the mission trip visit

 

 

 

This is the 2007 Mission trip team. This picture was taken at the Kigali Memorial site, where 250,000 genocide victims found in the Rwandan capital city were buried. 

 

 

        

The memorial site office                  Overwhelmed by emotions, by the open grave      The torch at the memorial site

 

         

 Very emotional visit                     Victims of the ETO massacre buried at Nyanza       Leaders against genocide were killed first

 

The team provided a dignified burial to Ben's parents and relatives murdered during the genocide and thrown in shallow mass graves. Following are some pictures showing the sad but necessary ceremony of burying bones.

 

       

Ben's relatives remains in one casket          Ben's parents killed and their house destroyed          At the grave site

 

           

        Caskets lowered in the tomb          Remains were collected in two caskets    One team member comforting Ben 

 

    

The man in blue shirt admitted having  

killed Ben's sister. He forgave him

 

After the painful mission of burying the remains of Ben's parents and many other relatives, the team went to visit the good shepherd children to play with them, to give out toys, to comfort the orphans and the widows.

 

     

 Having fun with the kids                      Stef poses with the children                      Pastor Mumm poses with children