Come and meet Celestin Musekura and hear his personal story of reconciliation since the Rwanda genocide. His story will inspire us to think through ways in which we can also bring reconciliation and improve race relations in our own community.

LEADERSHIP:

Dr. Celestin Musekura, Founder, President & CEO of ALARM:

Celestin is an ordained Baptist minister who was born and raised in Rwanda. He received a Bachelor of Theology at Kenya Highlands Bible College in Kenya, a Master of Divinity at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) in Kenya, a Master of Sacred Theology and a Ph.D. in theological studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. His doctoral research is on Contemporary Models of Forgiveness and he specializes in communal forgiveness.

In addition to his theological studies, Celestin has done more studies in Conflict Resolution, Mediation, and Reconciliation at the Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia (USA) and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (USA).

His pastoral and Christian leadership ministries include six years of pasturing in Rwanda and serving in administration with the Association des Eglises Baptistes du Rwanda (AEBR). He served on the international and continental level as the Africa Regional Director for MAP International (Nairobi, Kenya), the Director for MAP-Reconciliation Ministries, and the Associate Director for SIM-Urban Ministries Support Group (Nairobi, Kenya).

He co-founded the Sudan Evangelical Alliance (SEA) to help the persecuted churches in the southern Sudan to be united in their suffering and in their outreach to their nation. Celestin has served as an Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary and Criswell College in Dallas, Texas.

Celestin is married to Bernadette and they have four children. They make their temporal home in Dallas, Texas where they serve in the ALARM US office.

Celestin spends 30% of his time in the United States developing partners and speaking to Churches, Mission Conferences, Seminars and Universities.

He is the author of the newly published book Assessment of Contemporary Models of Forgiveness and together with Dr. Gregory Jones, Dean of Duke Divinity School, co-authored Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven (to be published in October 2010).