During our core team planning meeting, we began by reviewing our purpose, our successes, and our future. What are we here to do? Why did you get out of bed and come sit around this table to talk about savings and credit associations? Here is one pretty good answer, courtesy of Marie Jeanne, paraphrasing is my own:
In Rwanda, we have had war and division between people. Our savings groups bring the people back together, reconciled, and we introduce Christian community and faith. Our groups do not just meet and do savings, they meet and build relationships. They are on earth for a purpose and are created in the image of God. Division was not created because of physical differences or cultural differences, but because of sin. We are all created in the image of God, and savings groups mean being able to bring those people back together, not to focus on differences, but to find solutions to the challenges they all face.
Empowerment, reconciliation, savings groups mean more, something deeper … restoring right relationships between people and God and between one another.
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