THE IMPACT OF MOBILIZATION ON PLACIDE

My name is Hatsindukuri Ngabo Placide, I am a Christian since 2012 although I had been involved in religious activities for so long. Currently I work with Youth For Christ/Rwanda as a Youth worker since 2016.
I first heard of missions and the unreached in 2013 while reading a book called unveiled at last, that’s where I first learnt the acronym THUMB. I continued to hear about missions, especially in 2015 and 2016 through a discipleship course called PTW (Preach the Word) and did the Kairos Course in April 2016. That’s where I started to catch God’s vision for the nations and it started to catch me as well.

During the Kairos course I came to understand how I can be involved in missions and I felt a need to go, looking at the remaining task. I started right away being involved in the frontier missionary work. First, I joined a team of former Kairos Course graduates who were praying regularly for South Asians specifically the Indian Gujarati. Then I started giving to one of the Rwandan missionaries working with the Laarim people in South Sudan. Also, I started mobilizing especially through the Youth Kairos Course.
Since then (April 2016), I kept praying for both the unreached and missionaries; I kept giving for missions and mobilizing specifically those I was disciping. And I attended other seminars like the Big Story through which God’s vision and heart for the nations continued to catch me. Most importantly, God continued to speak to me about His heart for the nations more directly through my own study of Scripture and sermons. Moreover, when I went to study theology in 2019, one of the first courses we learnt was Global missions which also spoke of reaching the unreached.

In October 2020 I attended the Perspectives course on the world Christian movement and through it I was revived. I both renewed my old commitments and made new ones. I committed myself to start mobilizing the church of Rwanda through music. In this year, I am planning to raise funds and mobilize other singers in order to write songs about missions and record them. Also, as I plan to get married at the beginning of next year, I started discussing with my fiancée about my call to go, and even though I don’t know yet when and where to go, we are ready to get advice from Tubasange and others concerning our future in ministry as a family.

I am thankful to God that He has been using me in Rwanda since I became a Christian in 2012, and I am ready to continue obeying His will being in Rwanda or elsewhere, especially in the unreached. All I know is that Jesus’s words in Matthew 9:37-38 keep ringing in my ears; the laborers are still few looking at the remaining task, and may God keep sending us in all the nations where the harvest is plentiful, for His glory. Amen.