December 4, 2022, there was inauguration of the church building ‘’Amahoro Apartment’’ located in Kicukiro District, Kigali City. In this event there was the President and Representative of the Presbyterian Church In Rwanda, the Representatives of the presbyteries, the Church members and Kerk In Actie as a partner .
On this day it was stated that the apartment started to provide its services even online.
EPR accountants were trained for 3 days in financial reporting, budget preparation and the Excel Spreadsheet program. All the accountants of the presbyteries and those of the EPR headquarter participated and appreciated this opportunity which will make them progress in their services.
Institut Presbyterien de Kirinda (IPK) is a Non-Government school founded by the Presbyterian
Church in Rwanda in 1981. The school is conceptualized as a contribution of the Church to the
welfare of society as it was founded in a period where access to secondary education was
an issue in Rwanda. Therefore, the school opened up opportunities for young people coming
from Church members’ families and others to enjoy their rights to education. The school is
located in the rural area of Kirinda, the place where the first protestant German missionaries
settled in Rwanda back in 1907. Since its foundation, a big number of people graduated from it
and they are now serving society in different fields including accounting, bank services,
teaching, construction, ICT, Church service and others.
Recently the school has taken a professional orientation to align its mission with the
requirements of the current changing environment. Students are trained in fields of Accounting,
Building construction and ICT efforts are made to meet the school vision which reads
“Balanced quality education for excellence in a global society”.
Being a private, the functioning of the school relies on the partnership with students’ parents,
Church-owner of it and a good partnership with JMFA (Junge Menshen Für Afrika) – a German-
based association which has a good collaboration with the school since 2003. It is in the
framework of this partnership that a big project of “Rara Heza” is underway since a couple of
years. The project aims to build a new complex story building that will serve as a girls’
dormitory.
Institut Presbytérien de Kirinda(IPK) : « Diligence, Brightness , Excellence »
Email : ipkkirinda@gmail.com/ipkkirinda@yahoo.fr
For empowering the Youth Ministry, Presbyterian Church in Rwanda in partnership with Cevaa and l’Eglise Protestante Christ Roi de Centrafrique (EPCRC) has sent the delegation of ten youths and pastors in exchange visit to Bangui. The visit which took place from 21st to 30th August 2022 has main Purpose of raising awareness on conducting the Evangelization through its Theme: “Comment les Jeunes vivre sa foi Chrétienne entant que Jeune dans un milieu multicultural”
Presbyterian Church in Rwanda, through the Community Based Rehabilitation Pilot Project helped the Children and Youth with disabilities live in Mageragere Sector of Nyarugenge District in Health Screening. This activity was done in partnership with Nyarugenge District, National Union of Disabilities Organizations in Rwanda- NUDOR, and Nyarugenge District Hospital
The Church in collaboration with Hope International has helped people with savings skills. The training given to them was about the courses showing how one can improve his living condition without the big capital. Their tool is savings groups where they collect money every week, for each member to save, and they can use the credit among themselves. The last week of November 2022 was the savings week. On 28/10/2022 at Karongi presbytery, Rubengera parish, there was a presentation of certificates to 39 teenage mothers who were trained in sewing and the church gave them the sewing machine as contribution. On 31/10/2022 at the presbytery of Gitarama, in the parish of Rukamiro during this savings week, the savings group built a house for a poor mother, who has no who has no home.
