The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in east-central Africa. It is densely populated with 7,398,000 people. About 23% of the population is evangelical. Since the genocide in 1994 and counter killings as reprisals, progress toward peace is now evident, at least on the surface. Rwanda had peaceful elections in 2004, a great source of praise to God.

EFM began in Rwanda in 1986 with a Friends missionary team who had previously served in Burundi. Experienced and capable, they built a strong Friends church and several schools in this receptive country. EFM's current missionaries are David and Debby Thomas and Brad Carpenter. David and Debby Thomas are stimulating the national leaders in fresh initiatives of evangelism, cell groups, and church multiplication. Also the national leaders are transitioning to self support for their ministries, a major step forward. Friends have over seventy churches in Rwanda. Twenty-nine churches have been added since the 1994. Friends in Rwanda seek not only to win new people to Christ and plant churches, but to be a force toward forgiveness, reconciliation and peace.