Ndaruhutse, David

David Ndaruhutse was a Rwandan church leader who died in a tragic plane crash in 1997. David was born in 1955 at Gahini, Kabugo commune, Rwanda to Isaiah Rubagumya and Esther Nyaramgure. His father, a pastor, was killed when he was four. He grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda where he studied at Nyakasura High School and where he was converted. He then went on to Makerere University in Kampala and led the Fellowship of Christian Unions’ prayer groups there, graduating in 1982 with a B.A. in Economics and Statistics. In 1986 he continued his studies at Rofey Place in England. He married Ruth Uwayesu and they had five children. He spoke Kinyarwanda, Luganda, English, French, and Kiswahili fluently.