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Rachel Muembo

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Rachel Muembo is a missionary with the Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist church serving in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Mrs. Muembo is a teacher of French and computer skills at the Sierra Leone Theological College. Rachel also continues to help develop the Women’s Computer Training Center, which is a project of the United Methodist Women’s Organization in Africa (UMWORG). Prior to this she served in Sierra Leone in the Office of the Health Coordinator for West Africa.

Rachel first became involved in the United Methodist Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC), her home country, by singing in the choir and then becoming an officer in the women’s organization, UMWORG. She also served in the church as a counselor to abused young adults and as principal of the UMC Primary School in Kapanga for six years.

When the ethnic war started in the Katanga province, she was then seven months pregnant and had to flee from Kapanga along with her three children. Her husband, Dr. Eugene Muembo, joined her before they moved to Bukavu in the Kivu province where she worked with UMCOR as coordinator of the nutritional center for three years, as well as receptionist and cashier at the Bukavu Clinic.

In 1997, while her husband was in the U.S. for continuing medical education, the family was uprooted from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the civil war, and escaped to Nairobi, Kenya. There Rachel worked at the UMC Women’s Computer Training Center, training women in basic computer skills. When Dr. Muembo was finally able to move to his assignment in Sierra Leone, Rachel began teaching basic computer skills at the UMC school in Freetown while she continued her interest in working with women. She has also helped pastors at the Theological College teaching them how to make their own hymn sheets.

Mrs. Muembo says that she has constantly felt a deep desire to serve the Lord and has heard God’s call through her service in the church. She adds that during all her experience of war, she knew God had called her to serve. Rachel testifies that through all the bad experiences, there were good experiences spiritually as they witnessed the miraculous and felt Jesus Christ’s hand upon them always. She says that when they had no hope, God gave them his Spirit. ”It was good for us to be refugees, crossing the desert during four years. This experience allowed us to know and understand God’s calling.” Because of that experience, the Muembo home has always been a haven for other refugees.

Rachel is the first-born in a Christian family of ten and she has eight sisters. She is married to Dr. Eugene Omesombo Muembo, also a GBGM missionary, who is a medical doctor assigned to Kissy Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. They and their children Alberta, Jessica, Dany and Elisha have lived in Freetown since 2001.

Rachel Muembo is available for Covenant Relationship support in Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference ,  Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference ,  Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference .

Make an online donation to: Rachel Muembo #14291Z.

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