How God hears a prayer from inside a septict tank! (Part 2)
How God hears a prayer from inside a septict tank! (Part 2)

Tragedy Into Triumph

Rwandan genocide survivor Pastor Bosco shares how he moved from alcohol-fuelled nights and deep doubt about God to a life marked by peace and Christian faith. His story connects extreme trauma, sober reflection and a newfound calling to encourage others who have survived loss and addiction.

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31:04•30 May 2026

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From Septic Tank Horror to Lasting Peace: Pastor Bosco’s Story of Faith and Recovery

Episode Overview

Short-term relief from alcohol and nightlife left Pastor Bosco feeling empty, which pushed him to seek a deeper change.
Reading the Bible and Christian books sparked conviction as he realised the message seemed personally directed at him.
A sermon on the prodigal son led him to repentance and a new sense of peace that he describes as better than any nightclub high.
He explains that inner peace transformed how he viewed difficult places, showing that the real shift was inside, not in his surroundings.
Drawing from Romans 8, he encourages anyone who has survived tragedy or loss to keep going, believing God can work good from their pain.

“"If you're still breathing, if you're still here, you have a chance to make a difference."”

Witness the remarkable journeys of those who have faced addiction and unthinkable trauma head-on. This conversation follows Pastor Bosco as he shares how a teenage survivor of the Rwandan genocide went from nightclub drinking and doubt about God to a life centred on faith, peace and service. At 15, he survived being left to die in a cemented septic tank.

Years later, living in Uganda, he tried to fill the emptiness with alcohol, bars and nightclubs, yet felt life had lost its flavour. One quiet Saturday night, stuck at home with no new books, he finally opened the Bible and some Christian books his mum had given him—at first as a kind of game. The "game" didn’t last long.

As he matched verses and read more, he says he realised, "The Bible has a message, and it sounds like it has a message for me." Bosco talks honestly about doubting God’s goodness after seeing his family murdered, yet still remembering how, in the septic tank, he prayed for the rain to stop—and it did. That tension pushed him to ask the big question: if God is real, how could such evil happen?

His answer came as he became convinced that God became a man in Jesus to redeem humanity, and that his own life needed to change. A message on the prodigal son in a downtown Kampala church finally broke through. Bosco describes breaking down, repenting, and feeling a peace "better than the high" from any nightclub—so strong he walked home just to savour it.

That same peace later made even a difficult city feel bearable and helped him see that the problem wasn’t the country, but the turmoil inside him. Now pastoring a church in Columbus, Ohio and author of *The Balm to Heal*, he urges anyone who has survived tragedy, addiction or loss: if you’re still breathing, "you have a chance to make a difference". Could that same peace be the missing piece in your own recovery story?

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