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A Special Event: JULY 24 – 27
Birmingham volunteers of Operation Christmas Child invite you to be our guest as Rwandan genocide survivor and Operation Christmas Child shoebox recipient, Alex Nsengimana, shares about his journey to faith. Come hear Alex's story and have the opportunity to meet him at one of the following events:
Friday, July 24, 2 – 3:30 pm
Westwood Baptist Church
4349 Forestdale Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35214
Saturday, July 25, 9 – 10:30 am
First Baptist Church Helena
815 Highway 52E, CLC Building, Helena, 35080
Sunday, July 26, 2:30-4:00 PM
Mountain Brook Community Church
3001 US-280, Mountain Brook, 35243
Growing up in the throes of an unstable Rwandan government, Alex Nsengimana experienced first-hand the travesties of his nation's genocide. After his mother died while he was young, Alex went to live with his grandmother and uncle. At the height of tribal unrest in 1994, the genocide claimed the lives of his caregivers. Fleeing for his life, Alex escaped gunmen when he fell and they took him for dead. He fled and stumbled onto the steps of an orphanage that would serve as his home for the next several years.
Alex received a shoebox from Operation Christmas Child one year after arriving at the orphanage and remembers being so excited to have a gift to call his own. Alex was selected to join the African Children's Choir and traveled to Uganda to train and began touring in the U.S. Last year, he was given the opportunity to travel back to his orphanage to distribute shoe boxes to the children. Alex currently lives in Boone, NC and works for Samaritans Purse.
