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From Barefoot to Bishop is a compelling story of faith, from being saved to being of service. This memoir will inspie church leaders and laity alike, and it’s going to appeal to those with a passion to living a life with a mission.
In November 1959, Ethnic tensions in the East African Nation of Rwanda ignited what would turn out to be the first wave of deadly organized masacres against the Tutsi in Rwanda and a precursor to the horrific Genocide of 1994 in which one million or more Rwandans were killed in a hundred days. But on that day in 1959, a five-year-old boy named Laurent Mbanda knew only three things: first, that the air was once filled with smoke; second, that his father was once missing; and third, that his frightened mother was once telling him they had to run and hide. Soon, Mbanda would turn out to be one in all tens of thousands of Rwandan children literally running for their lives, probably the most many children who would grow up in refugee camps amid dire poverty and hunger.
From one refugee camp to any other in Burundi, Mbanda and his circle of relatives faced deprivation and near-constant discrimination on account of their refugee status. Regardless of bitter hardships and setbacks, Mbanda never lost his faith.