Kingdom Builders Rwanda

VISION

To disciple nations
through the one.

MISSION To make disciples who make disciples.
“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.”
Matthew 9:37
Map of Africa with Rwanda highlighted

Prepared by Emmanuel Dusabimana
Draft for prayer, counsel, and partnership

Executive Summary

The Invitation

The greatest need is not simply more churches—it is more disciples who know how to make disciples.

Discipleship is not one department of the Church. Making disciples is the mission Jesus gave the Church (Matthew 28:18–20).

Read it as an invitation to discern what God may be doing—and how faithful people, churches, educators, and business leaders might strengthen it.

Part II • Context

Rwanda Today: A Young and Changing Nation

Map of Africa with Rwanda highlighted
Population density 503 people/km² ≈1,303 people/mi² • about 14× the U.S. average
Population 13,246,394 2022 census
Median age 20 years
Urban share 27.9% in 2022 16.5% in 2012
GDP growth 8.9% in 2024
Expansion should follow healthy relationships and proven leaders—not simply open space on a map.
Kigali skyline

Part II • Context

Why This Moment Matters

≈8,000 places of worship closed during nationwide inspections
20 median age—half of Rwanda’s population is under 20

A young generation needs fathers, mentors, and guides.

This is an opportunity to ensure this generation carries the name of Jesus—and is mentored and guided.
Emmanuel and Lauren with their family

Part III • The Calling

Our Story: Formed Through Discipleship

My name is Emmanuel Dusabimana. I was born in Rwanda and grew up in a nation marked by profound suffering and remarkable hope. Like many Rwandans, my family experienced the lasting effects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, including the death of my father.

Yet my story is ultimately a story of God’s grace. Faithful believers invested in me. They taught me God’s Word, walked with me, and showed me the love of Christ through consistent relationships. Looking back, I understand that they were doing more than helping a young boy. They were making a disciple.

My story is one reason discipleship is not an abstract strategy to me. I am living evidence of what can happen when faithful people invest deeply in one life—and when that life is equipped to invest in others.

Emmanuel and Lauren with their family

Part III • The Calling

A Calling to Return

While serving in the United States has been a great privilege, the Lord has continued to draw my heart toward Rwanda. Lauren and I believe He is calling our family to return—not simply because Rwanda is my birthplace, but because relationships, preparation, experience, and conviction are coming together around a long-term assignment.

We do not return with the belief that Rwanda lacks gifted leaders. We return to come alongside pastors, churches, educators, and emerging leaders; to strengthen what God is already doing; and to help create pathways through which disciples become disciple-makers.

I know the language and culture, and I was saved there. I believe some of the most effective missionaries are those formed within the culture they are called to serve.

The desire is not only to reach Rwandans, but to equip Rwandans to become pastors, church planters, entrepreneurs, disciple-makers, and missionaries who serve Africa and the nations.
Emmanuel and Lauren

Part IV • Strategy One

A Nationwide Disciple-Making Movement

The first and highest priority is to help local churches cultivate a culture in which disciples make disciples. This is not a campaign built around large events. It is a relational, church-connected, reproducible process that moves from pastors to coaches and elders, from coaches and elders to group leaders, and from group leaders to new groups.

  1. PASTOR
  2. COACHES / ELDERS
  3. GROUP LEADERS
  4. NEW GROUPS
These are transparent planning assumptions. They must never be presented as guaranteed outcomes or multiplied indefinitely on paper.
Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda

Part IV • Strategy One

The Evergreen Discipleship Guide

Disciple-making groups will utilize the Evergreen Discipleship Guide—a simple, biblical, and reproducible guide designed to help believers grow through Scripture, prayer, obedience, accountability, intentional relationships, and multiplication. Evergreen should consistently be described as a guide, not a curriculum. The distinction matters: the aim is a shared life of following Jesus, not merely the completion of classroom material.

Scripture Prayer Accountability Care Mission Multiplication
The guide serves the relationship; the relationship does not serve the guide.
Emmanuel and Lauren

Part IV • Strategy One

BLESS: Engaging People Who Do Not Yet Know Christ

BLESS is the outward-facing rhythm within the disciple-making process. It helps prevent groups from becoming inward-looking and keeps evangelism connected to prayer, hospitality, service, listening, and genuine relationship.

B Begin with prayer Ask God to reveal and prepare people
L Listen Learn stories, hopes, wounds, and questions
E Engage Build intentional relationships in everyday life
S Serve Respond to real needs with humility
S Share Tell one’s story and the Gospel clearly
Lake Kivu and the hills of western Rwanda

Part IV • Strategy One

A Custom Disciple-Making Software Platform

As the network grows, we propose building dedicated software to help leaders care for people and understand what is happening across the movement. This would not replace relationships, coaching, or pastoral judgment. It would give authorized leaders one reliable system for following group health, supporting leaders, and reporting progress truthfully.

  • Register pastors, disciple-makers, groups, coaches, and regions without creating duplicate records.
  • Show the disciple-making pathway from pastor to leader to group to new leader, including regional maps and simple dashboards.
  • Notify coaches when a group becomes inactive, a leader needs support, or an important follow-up is overdue.
  • Produce accurate reports for ministry leadership, governing leaders, and partners while protecting confidential pastoral information.
Help leaders notice people, respond earlier, coach faithfully, verify multiplication, and learn where the movement is healthy or needs attention.
Lauren with the twins

Part V • Strategy Two

Leadership & Business Development Center

The Gospel transforms how people live, lead, work, and serve.

We want to create businesses where discipleship is the mission through their goods and services. Rwanda is such a young country, and this is a very crucial element.

We want to create a space where leaders are equipped and businesses are developed. We want to fuel the economy. We want to practice the Gospel practically by providing jobs, especially to those in the disciple-making movement around the country. This is also a strategy to share the Gospel with those who do not know Christ. Everyone needs a job.

The mission of this center is to:

Provide practical entrepreneur training from a biblical perspective

Offer counseling for the well-being of our people as they work through traumatic events

Offer funding for the business ideas that come out

Business becomes one of the places where disciples faithfully live the mission.
Tea hills in Rwanda

Part VI • Strategy Three

The Builders Community Church

Vision • Ephesians 4:12

To build the body of Christ for the display of His splendor.

Mission

To equip the saints for the work of ministry from our homes, neighborhoods, and to the ends of the earth.

Strategy Three is to be a church where Jesus Christ is glorified, saints are equipped to make disciples through church planting, and saints become missionaries in other nations.

Pastors equip the saints.
Equipped disciples make disciples.

  1. Church gatherings
  2. Everyday relationships & homes
  3. New groups
Flip the script.
Akagera National Park in Rwanda

Part VII • Implementation

Five-Year Roadmap

0–1

Listen, pilot, build trust

50 initial leaders; contextual review; coaching and data systems

1–2

Prove quality

Healthy cohorts; regional coaches; formal assessments; partner base

2–3

Expand carefully

Additional districts; leader-of-leaders pathway; business pilot

3–4

Strengthen institutions

Leadership center design; governance maturity; church-plant assessment

4–5

National network and sending

Progress toward 1,500 pastors; regional learning; long-term church and mission pathway

Scale what is healthy. Repair what is weak. Stop what is harmful. Share what is learned.
Nyungwe Forest National Park in Rwanda

Part IX • Partnership

Partnership Opportunities

The Great Commission cannot be accomplished without great collaboration. I want to leverage relationships with pastors, nonprofits, and government institutions.

PRAY

GIVE

GO

Get involved in mentorship.
Come visit.

PRAY • GIVE • GO TO MAKE DISCIPLES WHO MAKE DISCIPLES

Sources
  1. National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, Fifth Rwanda Population and Housing Census (2022)
  2. World Bank, Rwanda 2024 economic update
  3. U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Population Density Data
  4. International IDEA, Rwanda — August 2024
  5. Kigali skyline — Adrien K, CC BY 2.0
  6. Volcanoes National Park — Nina R, CC BY 2.0
  7. Lake Kivu and western Rwanda — Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 3.0
  8. Rwanda tea hills — Davyimage, CC BY-SA 4.0
  9. Akagera National Park — Louis Dewame, CC BY 3.0
  10. Nyungwe Forest National Park — Brian Harries, CC BY 2.0