Meet the new team!

Rob and Joyous Derner have been married for 6 years. For all of those years they've done music together. Composing original music suited to different situations from weddings to celebrating lives of cancer survivors and successful adoptions. They are currently in a missionary development program at Calvary Church and have led "The Rwanda Project" initiative since it began in 2008. Joyous is a professional photographer and has a desire to serve the poor and the lost in Jesus' Name through media in all ways possible.
Rob is continuing a music project that will take it's listener on a journey to Rwanda and back through the eyes of Christ.

Montse is a professional photographer who has worked through a local paper in Costa Rica for year with her Mother. She's a leading woman in the church in Rwanda, introducing it to missions posibilites by bringing the well known "Perspectives" course to the Country successfully. She has done work with YWAM and has a great heart for the poor and the lost.

Jose Diaz is the leading photographer for La Nacion in Costa Rica where he's been the leading photographer for years. It is La Nacion who is sending Jose to Rwanda to be a very valuable contribution to The Rwanda Project.

SO! What are we doing?!

Serving the Orphans in Rwanda, are two uprising ministries: 4-More (4-more.org) and Water for Life (waterforlife.org)
4-More became and official Non-Profit this spring and is already on the ground in Rwanda, providing Orphan Villages with clean water through the ministry Water for Life. They are also providing those same orphans with an opportunity to develop as small communities. For the first two villages, they are also utilizaing a local ministry who teaches others to farm effectively by asking them to come into these Orphan Villages and teach them to farm. The YWAM church is also involved with followup and overall ministry to these children who, since 1994 have been without leadership and have struggled to lead themselves to their current state of struggle.
Water for Life is a ministry of YWAM (Youth with a mission) in Rwanda. They offer those who need it throughout Rwanda, education and clean water by providing both with their own staff and recourses. They dig wells, install rain-harvest systems and quite a bit more.
These two organizations have little promotional material. It is The Rwanda Project's pleasure to be providing both ministries with 2 series' of short films that will display and communicate their efforts to their donors and to others who are curious of their works.
Our secondary purpose is to unite the western and Rwandese cultures through media. Both have so much to learn from each other and even have an opportunity to grow together.

It's our honor to give of our time and skills to the cause of serving the Lost in Jesus' Name!

Please follow along here on the blog or on Facebook (The Rwanda Project)! We will be posting video, photos and even will be offering up a chance to skype with some of these special orphans, giving you a chance to personally get involved.

Thanks for following! Thanks for Praying! We are leaving in three days!!!