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Day 2 – Special Edition

September 25, 2014 Joey Cope 0

I hesitated to post the earlier entry, “Hallelujah!”, because I was hoping to snag a video from the church service from another team member. Several tried to connect me to theirs last night. But the file was too big and the bandwidth too small. So, after several days of frustration, I’m [read more]

Day 3 – Flexibility

September 25, 2014 Joey Cope 4

Day 3 was a learning day for us. We had been told that flexibility was a key to our success while in Africa. We began to learn about flexibility even before we began to train security forces in Rwanda. Our training session was to take place in a meeting room of the [read more]

Day 2.2 – Genocide

September 22, 2014 Joey Cope 2

After attending church and sharing a relaxed lunch back at the ALARM Training Center, our team loaded up and headed to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center. From the time Dr. Betty Gilmore envisioned this trip for us, this was the moment that we had the most questions about. How do we come [read more]

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Temporary Delay in Africa Posts

September 22, 2014 Joey Cope 0

I know several of you are watching for our Africa peace mission posts. Just wanted you to know we are doing fine. Our internet bandwidth is limited here and I’ve been trying to upload a 1 minute video for the past few hours. The good news is that many of [read more]

Day 2.1 – Hallelujah!

September 21, 2014 Joey Cope 3

Looking forward to our first full day in Kigali, we questioned — perhaps even dreaded — one item on our schedule. It wasn’t that we didn’t want to go to church on Sunday. We just wondered if we would be in any shape to survive the projected 4-hour service with [read more]