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Church Missions

Monday, January 21, 2013

Mission to Connect Westborough With Rwanda

Members of the First United Methodist Church will deliver 'about 1,000 pounds' of supplies to a village there, pastor says.

Members of the First United Methodist Church will deliver “about 1,000 pounds” of supplies to the village of Kibogora, Rwanda on Feb. 15, the Rev. John Wesley Taylor says. The Westborough church is forming a “sister relationship” with that community, symbolized partly by a banner the 13 mission participants will bring, the pastor says. An artist in the church created it, he says, “I’ve been praying about connecting to Africa for years. I hear about what’s happening as far as church and faith and how the church is growing and how faith has really helped a lot of African countries,” Taylor says. “Me, personally, I think we in our area, New England, Massachusetts, Westborough, we’re sort of in a mission field. And I think spiritually, we’re a…

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