Why I have been involved with Intango from the beginning - Darrell Muth
My support for the Intango Skills and Training Center has a continuous thread to the late 1990s. Elmer and Sherry Komant, long time PAOC Global Workers, committed to moving to Rwanda to rebuild the many lives shattered by the 1994 genocide. It was in 1998 where the Komant’s established Christian Life Assembly – the first Engligh speaking church in Rwanda. Since the beginning of CLA I maintained my support through prayer, time and finances towards CLA’s needs.
In 2002 I took a team of skilled Canadian workers to construct the first building on the current CLA property. Working alongside the Komant’s and Goltz’s we built theKomant Memorial Guest House – a cozy and functional space for future teams and groups to be accommodated in.We took a leap of faith in 2003 where we moved to Rwanda for six months with our 18-year-old son, Jared, to be the lead pastors at Christian Life Assembly while the Komant’s returned to North America for a sabbatical.
Over the subsequent years, the church I led in Canada joined with CLA in their Mercy Ministries to ensure the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the most vulnerable were being met of the most vulnerable in Rwanda.
It was 2016 when Christian Life Assembly asked myself and Dwight and Linda Gotlz to help them develop a world-class skills and training centre, called Intango Vocational Skills Training Centre. The institute would provide a holistic approach: greatly needed trade skills, combined with emotional and spiritual health for Rwandan men and women. In another leap of faith, Darrell and Dwight, preacher and farmer, said yes. Dwight Goltz and I combined our efforts and love of Rwanda to help provide the funds for the purchase of the Intango Vocational Skills Training Centre property. Since 2016 we have led numerous Canadian teams to help build Phase I of Intango and have closely partnerered with CLA as advisors towards Intango’s progress and completion.
I am excited for the vision of Intango and to continue partnering with the government of Rwanda to help train and equip the disenfranchised and impoverished within Rwanda. I also look forward to Intango’s first occupants- namely a campus satellite of CLA, the Busanza church, who use Ingango’s facilities as its permanent church location. As my involvement with Intango continues, I eagerly look forward to the day when Intango trained men and women lead the way in building the beautiful nation of Rwanda.