Jean Bosco Ruhinda

When a radio call changed everything

Trinitas Community Organisation was born out of a divine interruption, a
moment that forever changed the course of Bosco Ruhinda’s life.

One afternoon, Bosco was invited by a friend to speak about evangelism
on a local gospel radio show in Kigali. Midway through the broadcast, a
caller phoned in an unfamiliar voice from a remote village. He pleaded,
“We have many people who need to hear the Good News and be baptised.
Will you come?” Without hesitation, Bosco accepted the invitation live on
air.

Soon after, the man travelled to Kigali to share more about his forgotten
village. Moved by what he heard, Bosco gathered a group of passionate
university students and colleagues and organised a mission trip headed
for a place he had never been. What awaited them was heartbreaking:
children wandering the streets half-naked, hunger everywhere, and an
absent coordinator who had vanished with all their support funds. But
instead of retreating, Bosco led the team in door-to-door evangelism. Over
100 people gave their lives to Christ that day.

What others gave up on after that trip, Bosco couldn’t walk away from. He
continued mobilising groups to preach in the same village for two years in
a row, to the extent that he decided to spend most of his time living in this
village for 2 years. Though, after all that time in the village, he later
returned to Kigali discouraged, broke, and misunderstood by his own
family. However, the seed of a calling had already been planted.

Born to Rwandan refugee parents in Uganda, who left their motherland
during the 1970s, Bosco had known hardship growing up in exile as a
young boy. Growing up in poverty, going to school hungry, and struggling
to finish university while working odd jobs and surviving multiple
business failures, he understood the pain of poverty and struggle. But in
the midst of all the brokenness, he found purpose through surrender.

In a moment of deep frustration and despair, Bosco shut himself in a room
at his parents’ home for a month and cried out to God, reading the Bible,
praying and fasting, saying, “God, if you don’t show me what my life is
really about, don’t let me out of this room; instead, kill me! Please give me
a vision of my 40 years to come!”. One night, while praying and crying to
God, a vision was born to turn this village into a city for Christ.

Trinitas Community Organisation would become a platform to restore
dignity, disciple communities, and transform families—and the Lord
commanded him to start with the same village he once visited in obedience
to a stranger’s call.

Trinitas Community Organisation would become a platform to restore
dignity, disciple communities, and transform families—and the Lord
commanded him to start with the same village he once visited in obedience
to a stranger’s call.

Today, Trinitas has impacted over 550 children and their families through
child educational sponsorship and discipleship, given 4,570 people access
to clean water, restored and rebuilt more than 30 houses, developed leaders
across the region, and raised hope for surrounding communities, and more
than 3,500 people have been reached out to with the gospel of Christ.

What began with a simple “yes” on a radio show has now become a
movement of holistic transformation, restoring what was broken and
raising leaders for generations to come.

Bosco continued to serve as the president of the Trinitas Community
Organisation. He is married to Rachel MUSASA, and together, they are
raising a beautiful family of five children.