Sunday Feb 9th is the Final Day of Friends General Conference - Online Gathering - at the AFM Meetinghouse 12:40 – 2:10 pm Please Join us to hear Pleanary Session Speaker
David Bucura
Date: Sunday 2/9 we will gather at AFM at 11:40
How do nations persevere and find relationship after genocide and deep conflict between their peoples? For some of us, this question is hypothetical but for David Bucura, a man who wears many hats in his community, the answer is something he lives daily in his home in Rwanda. When I asked if he would be willing to speak to our gathering and share what he has learned and observed, he welcomed the theme “A Spring Who’s Waters Never Fail” and expressed a leading to talk with us about how people in Rwanda are able to live together with love after the genocide against Tutsis in 1994.
He will talk to us about “Good Leadership after genocide, unity and reconciliation, restorative justice (Gacaca Justice) and forgiveness,” not from a theoretical perspective, but from a place of deep connection to God and lived experience. At this time in America, when our wounds of racism, genocide and exploitation continue to fester and the political divide feels like the splitting of a continent, we have a lot to gain from listening to a perspective grounded in lived experiences, on the ways available to address differences and pains. ~ Mica Estrada