7-2-2016 Church and Umubamo Hotel

Today we were awakened by the usual urban chorus of birds singing dogs barking soldiers singing cocks crowing alarms going off and the general noise of a city. However other sounds were soon surpassed by the wonderful singing coming from local African services and choirs practicing.
After a leisurely breakfast we walked to Jonathan's church, Christian Life Assemblies Kigali

www.clarwanda.org

https://www.facebook.com/clarwanda

We enjoyed a modern worship band, communion and a very good sermon, very different from Charles's church the week before. The young preacher was preaching on Romans 12 on the importance of personal holiness and how the western values which are starting to pervade the country especially with the advent of mass media and are infiltrating the church where personal holiness is being watered down by the constant barrage from commercialism. He spoke about personal discipline and made us laugh with a caricature of an African at a free buffet. It was the best bible based and well thought out sermon we had heard in Kigali.  

Then a leisurely walk back through a city which is sprouting building sites on every corner with large european stile buildings.

 The wonderful water sculpture  at CLA

The three bowels receive from the one above symbolising the Spirit as the water of life flowing from God to the individual and out again to his or her neighbour.

  

A sandwich and African tea of tea or a strawberry and pineapple cocktail

 in the lovely gardens of the Umubamo hotel