Wednesday 23 April 2008

Forgiving the Unforgivable

The Annual Chaplaincy Lecture of Leicester University is on 15 May from 5.30 to 6.30pm in Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3.

The speaker, Meg Guillebaud has divided her life between Africa and the UK. Born in Burundi and educated in Rwanda and Britain. She was a Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police before training first at All Nations Bible College and then at Cranmer Hall, Durham. She was made Deaconess in Southwark in 1980, Deacon in Norwich in 1987 and priested in Bristol in 1994.

Returning to Rwanda with the Church Mission Society in 1996 she founded and directed the Byumba Bible College from which she is due to retire later this year. She has published:

Rwanda - The Land God Forgot? (2002, Monarch)

After the locusts (2005, Monarch)

Service above All - a booklet published in Rwanda which will be available at the Lecture on 15th May.

For more details contact Susan Cope (0116 285 6493) or email chaplaincy@le.ac.uk