Beside preaching the word of God, in Restoration of Bible Fellowship Church in Houston we have several services we do to support our church and to help our congregation and Community.
Some of other services are the following:
GRANT WRITING
Mission Statement
Our mission is to raise funds through co-sponsorship to enable us to seek a lifelong journey of spiritual and economic hope, encourage, educate, and empower our community and share with other communities locally, nationally and around the world.
Grant writing planning Committee
Pastor Andrea Bucumi – President
Evangelist Alexis Semana – Vice President
Anaclet Rukata – Assistant Vice President
Remy Niyihambona – Secretary
Byambi Lukata
Devotte Sabiraguha
Landrada Mukanyandwi
Don A Franklin – Assistant
Margaret Franklin – Assistant
Other
• Ntayobatandemye Juvenal
Meetings
Twice a month on Saturdays
From 10:00-11:30 Am
IMMIGRATION
Byambi Rukata is a Burundian volunteer who worked with Somali Bantu Association for over six months teaching Burundian, Congolease, and Somalian refugees how to get ready for becoming USA citizen, the class included the questions asked during citizenship interview, what you need to become citizen and how long you have to be in the United State.
The class was so succesfull, but the problem was the location which was available just for few months, but we needed a permenent place so that our people can continue to be assisted and can get counselling about becoming USA citizen.
Burundian community is a 501c3 tax exemption, we welcome any donation so we can expend our programs in order to get this community ready to become citizen.
We should have a permenent location and hire employees to do the work.
ESL CLASS
Introduction
Our community need in their daily life the English language as one of the vessel or means to integrate themselves into USA society. In order to reach that goal we have decided to tremendously, encourage and enhance our people to learn English as their second language which will help them to:
1.Be helpful in USA society .
2.Be smartly communicate in working places.
3.Help their families wherever this language is needed.
4.Create a strong relationship with native English speaking communities, not only in USA , but also around the world where English language is spoken.
5.Be productive in USA industries by accomplish the work assigned.
6.Not feel stranger in this country but one of its people.
In this learning program, we have levels after which our students will be sent to GED program and college. Our community came from Great Lakes region where they have suffered a lot due to armed conflicts which have being taking place over and over. That is the reason why the majority of adult people did not attend any schooling programs. Due to these needs, we have created the literacy in native languages, history of our countries, culture and literature of our native tongues.
LITERACY IN NATIVE LANGUAGES, HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRIES, CULTURE AND THE LITERATURE OF OUR NATIVE TONGUES.
We have the obligations of teaching our young generations culture, the history of our countries where we came from, because people without history and culture are people without soul, according the historic wisdom. We try also to teach them those native languages because as long as they grow here they speak only English and become very hard to communicate with their relatives here or overseas.
So we teach them the following native languages:
1.Kirundi
2.Kinyarwanda
3.Swahili
In this program, we need our children to be able to speak our languages as well as English, because nowadays languages are helpful whenever we need to go, to be and to work. We still having some adults persons in theirs lives, they do not know how to read and write our native languages. When they fill the gap missing when they were younger, the second step is the English level one. In our program we have different levels in order to satisfy the learning needs that our brothers and sisters encounter, or face in their learning system. To accomplish these tasks we need an appropriate place for now we use our brothers and sisters homes, we need some didactical materials, teachers and volunteers.
MEDICAL MISSION
Medical Mission
This is another way we stared last year to touch community by free consultation, free medicines and food. It was an important even for just one day but the patient got some medicines for 3 mouths.
We had to make fund raising from all form of donors and volunteers such as doctors, nurses, pharmacists and interpreters. Everyone had to register, you should see the attachment or links of the number of attendees, volunteers, and number seen by doctors, number of doctors and medications, and referrals to specialists.
