Rwanda Pentecostal Assemblies of God (RPAG) unveiled a new dormitory for Christian training and learning centre and dormitory buildings that will improve the living conditions and the standards for trainee preachers.
The two structures were unveiled this February 5, 2025, to over 300 faith- based leaders and government officials. The facilities, accommodating over 140 trainees, will replace the old ones where preacher students have been taking their training programs.
These facilities add to the recently inaugurated new Bible Training College in the same in Kanombe, Nyandungu, at the Assemblies of God Headquarters in Rwanda.
The modern structures, worth over $370,000 from friends and members of the church of the Assemblies of God (AoG) in Rwanda and USA, will improve the living conditions and the standards for trainee preachers who have been training and living in old fashioned facilities for years.
Bishop Emmanuel Ngabonziza, the RPAG Superintendent said that this is part of their 10-year strategic project expansion plan in which the AoG church will be planting and setting up learning centres for all.
“This is a centre for all Christian believers. What we asked God has been answered and we are seeing signs of God fulfilling this mission. Today we have a Christian training centre, a Bible school and are now going to focus on having a pastoral training centre in Nyamata- Bugesera, where we will have retreats, global pastors meet to serve,” Ngabonziza said in his reception remarks.
Pentecostal pastors, preachers and leaders of big church organizations have committed to building facilities that represent the vision and future of Rwanda, a move that will improve the face of the Christian church in the country.
Dr. Rod Loy- the Assemblies of God representative USA said that their partnership with Rwanda will be very important in building the Christian church in Rwanda and in his summon, he called for the need to be generous.
“The structure we unveil is the glory of God. the building is a testimony of the glory of God for the students to prophesy the word of God and enable all students to have powerful encounters with God and spread the word of God throughout the whole country,” Loy said.
David Wiginton, the representative of the donors from The Stone Table and Friends organization- USA, said that the donor community is grateful for the partnership with Rwanda and prayed that the centre is filled with the Holy Spirit and make the word of God known in every part of the country.
Nate Lashway – Assemblies of God EAC Swahili Region Head said that they are committed to support the church in Rwanda to grow and add more to the over 86 million believers across the world.
Lashway said that the campus will play a key role in the transformation of the larger Christian community in Rwanda, but Rwandans have to remember the history of the country to work towards spiritual transformation.
“In order to have lasting peace and prosperity we cannot depend on laws but transforming spirit. We appreciate the government doing but there is place for the church to play its role,” he said.
Rwandan Pentecostal pastors, preachers and leaders of large faith-based organizations who attended the event said that the work of the Assemblies of God in Rwanda has been an inspiration to many and most of them have sought advice from its first-generation leaders to become equally successful in building the Christian church community.
Most of them committed to copying the example of the Assemblies of God in building facilities that represent the vision and future of Rwanda so as to improve the face of the Christian church in the country.
Apostle Yoshua Ndagijimana Masasu, the founder and overseer of Evangelical Restoration Church, President and Chancellor of Bible Communication Centre said that he has sent over 80 pastor to train in other centres across the country, but the Assemblies of God have set a challenge that many should learn from.
Masasu said that there is no room for playing with the Gospel in Rwanda, because if Rwandans didn’t see God, then then they must have seen Satan in the genocide, thus a need to act to change the country.
Pentecostal Church of Rwanda (ADEPR) Senior Pastor Isaie Ndayizeye the centre is not for Pentecostal but for all Rwandans, the region and to enable preachers to serve God’s people with knowledge.
Ndayizeye testified that many churches are having training centres, but they miss this aspect of equipping the ministers to do the work of God to address the current problems of society.
