Our History
Jean Bosco Ruhinda
Founder and Executive director
Trinitas Community Organization
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 along with his five siblings, 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 and the vision to turn the village he served for two years into a city for Christ.
Few Months later, Bosco was joined by his two brothers Emmy and Derrick and Trinitas Community Organisation would become a platform to restore dignity, disciple communities, and transform families—and the Lord commanded him to begin that given vision 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 continues to serve as the president of the Trinitas Community Organization. along with his two brother Emmy and Derrick.
