Christmas time has come and the kids ministries are in their busiest time. I was at one of the meetings today, where 50 kids crowded into our small room. There were two kids on every chair, lots of small children on the laps of others. Nertila, the chief children’s teacher,…
A blog post resembling a newsletter.
Thank you to you that support us in ministry. We regret that we are not super consistent in communication to everyone. Our work needs great support, we couldn’t live as missionaries without it. We have seen God’s perfect provision of answered prayer and practical resources countless times. (Even today!) Sometimes…
I drive now.
I drive now. I have lived in Albania four and a half years and I finally drive. My list of excuses for not driving was long…1. manual car 2. pedestrians use the road more than sidewalks 3. poor, narrow roads 4. We need the exercise … etc, etc. It just…
Growing in Women’s Ministry
I was so encouraged when I saw what Doriana posted on Facebook after a women’s meeting in Mborje on Monday: “Ja dhe receten e ilaceve e morem sot 🙂 haha receten per shqetesimin dhe merakun parashtrojani Jezusit keto dhe ai do jet nji ilac sherues per ne!!” (Here is prescription…
Happy New Year!
I think we can say that all through January, right? People here in Albania certainly do. It is the biggest holiday of the year. Almost everyone we know spent the end of 2013 working hard to prepare for it. It’s tradition to have your home in top shape to bring…
Albanian House Hunt
One of my friends asked how we go about finding a house in Albania, “Does Albania have something like Craigslist?” I laugh. To find a place to live, we made a flier that detailed everything we were hoping to find in a house. Normal things like two bedrooms, a modern…
Happy New Year!
Gezuar vitin i ri! New Year is the biggest holiday in Albania. For hundreds of years, Albanian was under the Ottoman Empire and not long after they became free, they were ruled by a strict atheistic communist government. Therefore, the traditional major feast and celebration is on New Year’s Eve.…
Our first Christmas in Albania…
It was certainly a different Christmas for us this year. Because of Albania’s history, hundreds of years under the Ottoman Empire followed by decades of strict Communist rule, Albania didn’t celebrate Christmas. They’ve been an open country for twenty years now, but their culture just doesn’t make a big deal…
Looking for adventure…
Last week, we looked for some adventure and found our way to the top of the mountain overlooking our city, where there is an enormous cross and a new Orthodox church under construction. We’ve been waiting for a while for it to cool down so we could make the trek…
Connecting With Other Ministries
One of our goals is to visit and connect with other ministries in the area. Our hope is to learn as much as we can from others’ ministry experiences and build connections for our future work of church-planting. We were excited to get a good start at meeting the goal…