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This week the husband of my childhood neighbor died. I haven’t seen them at least in person in 15 years. We are in the same age range at the forties. The man, I learned later, has been very sick for almost two years. All I was able to see were those photos that his wife, … More Unrecognized by the church, but reconciled with God
Let’s face it: we have a problem in working in God’s harvest within the church-planting context. First is the concept! It’s a North American concept, it’s good but not very biblical. I’m a church planter, so don’t take it wrong very quickly. It’s not very biblical for two reasons: 1) Jesus never commanded his disciples … More Once-churched and never-churched
Do you remember the story when the woman was asking Jesus to heal her daughter? And Jesus compared her request like a dog who is asking for food in the wrong place. Her humble answer humbles me everytime I read: “even dogs eat the leftover crumbs under the table”. The hungry, the needy and those … More Blessed Leftovers
I came across this interesting article where some case studies were presented. I took only the Albanian story as it is below. Please comment your thoughts. “Albania: A case story from the 1990s. A young Albanian woman training at the Los Angeles Intercultural Urban Internship told me that Albanians see religion, including Christianity, as political and manipulative. … More Is it Flawed Evangelism and Church Planting ?
Tomor Ajeti is the pastor of Victory Church in Tirana, Albania. Together with his wife Miranda they have been leading this church for more than 14 years. They also run a one year Bible school, training believers for effective ministry. They minister inside and outside Albania reaching mainly Albanians with the Word of God. In the beginning of … More From a refugee to a missionary
“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” Jesus prayed as recorded at John 17: 21 (KJV) Whoever have seen Church history will wonder if Jesus prayer was never … More Unity in Diversity
I was reading this report from LifeWay regarding the church plants. Look at the graph and if you want to read the article click on it. We can read stats in different ways. What I see is that half of people who join church plants have been part of another church or their kids. Quarter … More Reaching the 18%
As I was studying this info-graphic regarding the languages of the world I was thinking again about my people – Albanians. There were not in the list. Simply because there are less than 50 million. We are less than 10 million. We are a drop to compare with other millions. We speak a language than … More an invisible unreached group
I found this very interesting article and wanted to share with you. Here are some excerpts: “Albanians have been Muslims for more than 500 years and they do not need outsiders [Arabs] to tell them what is the proper way to practice Islam.” – Rexhep Boja, Mufti of Kosova Albanians often state that their faith was … More Competing for the Albanian Soul
It has been some months since I begun searching on Albanian organizations in North America. Surely my main focus have been the religious ones. I’ve searched how they have started and who have been the ones involved while nothing concrete was laid, just dreams and plans. I’ve have written earlier that the first mosque in … More Looking for friends
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