Soomah::we are the body

I watched this movie a few days ago. It really was a powerful movie about rasicm, courage, human depravity and love.

Hotel Ruanda is the true story about a Hotel Manager during the civil war between the Hutu and the Tutsis in Ruanda back in the ’90s. The war costed Rwanda 500,000 innocent lives, the most of them being hacked to pieces by machetes.

The character played by Don Cheadle ends up saving 1,200 lives by letting people stay at his hotel for free after the rich (and white) guests left the country. They had to fend by themselves as the world and especially the United Nations looked away. Torn between the warlords and his “guests”, they survive by drinking the pool water and living in overstuffed hallways and rooms.

Go to the DVD rental and get this movie. Watch it with your small group, talk about it’s social implications and pray how God can use you to reach the unloved and overlooked.

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