Pastor Sam Mugisha, from St. Etienne, is charged about savings groups. So here is his great idea: Sam invited 46 pastors to join him in a pastors-only savings group. Savings groups often form out of pre-existing groups, but Sam's initiative is pretty special.
First, these are pastors in Kigali who may otherwise never have joined a savings group. Being part of a group is the absolute best way to understand how it works, value what it does, and excite pastors to promote savings in their churches.
Second, this savings program is partnered with the Anglican Church, so many of the implementers are pastors, archdeacons, and ministry leaders. What you don't want, though, is a pastor holding his congregation's money or hunting down loan repayments. Sam's pastors group gets pastors involved but removed: involved in the process of alleviating poverty, removed from handling funds and endangering the church's mission.
Sam gets it, his idea is great, and he is pretty excited. His grace Archbishop Kolini thinks these pastors should be saving to buy a home, so he's pretty excited about this idea, too.
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