Pastor Ezra Mpyisi’s family members announce that this recently departed veteran will be buried on February 4, 2024, which will be Sunday.
The news of Mpyosi’s death was announced on January 27, 2024, which was a Friday.
He was a good person in many ways because he was kind to everyone, he was an expert in Rwandan grammar and he loved God and people.
On 03 February, this year at the Seventh Day Adventist University there will be an event to reflect on the importance he has given to Rwanda and Rwandans in general.
His place is located at Panorama Hope Gardens in Rebero in Kicukiro District.
The farewell ceremony before his burial will be held at the Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA), and will be preceded by his burial at the Rusororo cemetery on the following day.
Pastor Mpyisi was born at the age of 102, and had eight children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was born in the year 1922, he was an educated and fortunate man, he grew up loving God and became a Seventh Day Adventist Pastor for a long time.
He did pastoral work in many countries including Zaire (now DRC), Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.
He began his education during the colonial period, studying in Rwamata at the Adventist school, continuing in Gitwe at the Adventist missionary school, and continuing at the University of this religion at Solusi in Zimbabwe, at that time this country was called South Rhodesia where he obtained a diploma in Theology.
Pastor Mpyisi is a person who had a lot of wealth in the history of Rwanda because he had been there for a century which is something not many people in the world do and during that time he saw something both in Rwanda and abroad.
He built a palace, lived during the colonial period, fled, came back and saw the Genocide against the Tutsis, saw how Rwanda was liberated, worked with religious people and others who participated in the construction, in short, he came home as a library of the history of Rwanda.
The New Times reports that before the RPF-Inkotanyi started the struggle to liberate Rwanda, Pastor Ezra Mpyisi met King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa and Protais Musoni to bless the struggle.
In the year 2001, Mpyisi participated in the creation of Inteko, which is a forum of experienced adults who have knowledge about the history and culture of Rwandans who are determined to leave it and share it with the younger ones.
In the year 2001, Mpyisi participated in the creation of Inteko, which is a forum of experienced adults who have knowledge about the history and culture of Rwandans who are determined to leave it and share it with the younger ones.
Other information about Mpyisi’s group is that he was one of the scholarly pastors who contributed to putting the Bible in Kinyarwanda in its previous translation since Christianity was born in Rwandans.
