Greg Jones—Maison Shalom, a story from Burundi

Posted by Kendall Harmon

"I have to tell you about Maggy," my colleague said excitedly. He was just back from Africa, and I was eager to hear about his work and his meeting with 100 Christian leaders from east-central Africa. But he wanted to talk about Maggy.

"Love made me an inventor," Marguerite "Maggy" Barankitse had told several of my colleagues with a sparkle in her eye. The more she talked, the more my colleagues wanted to see her Maison Shalom (House of Peace). They arranged to travel from Bujumbura to Ruyigi, the city in Burundi where Maggy lives.

Maggy's story goes back 15 years to the civil war in Burundi...

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