Park Terrace UMC Youth Group

Mrs. Snover is teaching Sunday school this Sunday and she said she will be showing Hotel Rwanda.  If you haven’t already seen this movie, here is some information:

It’s PG-13 for some violence and language, violence because it is a story about genocide, and language, well, because some people let some bad words slip when other people are trying to kill them (but it’s still PG-13). 

The movie is about Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel owner in Rwanda (a country in Africa) who saved many people’s lives by letting them take refuge in his hotel during the genocide, risking his own life to do so.  The movie does not glorify violence (it in fact does the exact opposite) and presents the story very well. 

If you’d like to know more about the genocide, read this Human Rights Watch article.

If you’d like to know more about Paul and about the movie, read this National Geographic article.

If you’d like to know more about the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, go here.

Let me know if you have any questions.  I’ll be watching this movie again this week as a “refresher.”  See you Sunday!

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