From Ft. Wayne-
Earlier this year, Pat Jehl of Fort Wayne felt God calling him to go to Rwanda, and specifically to the city of Ruhengeri in the northwest corner of that African nation.
Jehl didn't know why or what he was supposed to do there, but he went in August.
He happened to meet Bishop John Rucyahana, an Anglican clergyman who is leading his nation's efforts at reconciliation after the genocide that devastated the country in 1994. The bishop also is part of an African-based Anglican Church outreach to people in North America who don't have a faith or church.
At Jehl's invitation, Rucyahana will speak at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship and communion services Sunday at Heartland Church on Vance Avenue.
Rucyahana also will speak at 3 p.m. Sunday with any interested local clergy. In addition, he will be in Fort Wayne on Monday and Tuesday, but his schedule on those days had not yet been finalized, said Jehl, a Heartland member.
Wrote book based on Rwanda
Born in 1945 in northwest Rwanda, Rucyahana's family had to flee its homeland in 1959 to escape persecution by the Tutsi tribe, his biography said.
They settled in Uganda, where Rucyahana lived for 38 years. In 1975, he was ordained a priest in the Anglican Church of Uganda, and served as rector of St. Paul's Cathedral in Hoima, Uganda, during the final years of dictator Idi Amin's violent reign.
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