Monthly newsletter of the mission in Albania

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 Dear brethren and friends,

we want to thank the Lord because also this month we have good news to share with you.

The first one, is that we have started regular meeting in a new village. Leshnica, this is the name, is situated between the villages of Stropcke and Cerrave. As we had written about in the last letter, at the moment, we are having the meetings in the house of a teacher, who is a new believer. We would like to find a bigger place asa soon as possible, because there are a lot of children (about 50) plus teenagers and adults (about 15) that are taking part at the meetings , and this situation causes some problems to the family who hosts us.

With the latest door that the Lord has opened to us , we are working in five different villages that are situated in a same area, and in the city of Pogradec. That is why, we are very busy considering the fact that Ardi is for the moment in Germany and Sokol is a soldier. But thanks the Lord we have inserted in our co-workers’ team, Jeta (the girl from Çerrave who has just finished the bible school in Pogradeç) who will be an indispensable help for Luciana in the work with the children.

In the village of Çerrave, we have found a new flat for the meetings. We have prayed a lot for this because the house where we had the meetings was a terrible place (it was raining inside, it wasn’t light enough from the windows and there was a lot of humidity) and as always the Lord have granted our prayers. Surely this place needed a deep cleaning, but now we have some new bigger rooms, with enough light and no problems with the rain and humidity. With the new house there is a new interest to take part to the meeting from some guys who for some time didn’t came. We are organising also a monthly meeting with the women after that some of them have expressed this desire.

In the end of May, some brethren from Sicily. Claudio , Annamaria and Andrea Bonsignore, Giuseppe and Rosi Firenze and Bartolo Sorci have honoured us for their presence and help. We have had a good week with them, that have encouraged us, not only with their presence but also because the Lord has used them with different prophetic words during the prayer’s time.

Regarding the Stropcke’s centre project (the first step is to buy the land) and the purchase of the store that will be converted to a kindergarten and ambulatory (this project is financed by "le Coup de Cour" from France) there are some problems about the documents of propriety. We have still to wait a while, due to some changes to come on the law about the private propriety. Actually all the problems arise because of the fact, that all the proprieties were confiscated during the communist regime and now there are not any exact archives to show the old owners before communism, who as a matter of fact have still to wait until they take their land under their ownership definitively. Both cases regarding us, the land and the warehouse, everything seams to be fine with the old documents . We are still expecting for the green light from the relevant offices, which at the moment do not release any certificate at all.

We are sure that those projects are in the Will of the Lord and for this reason each problem will be resolved.

Subjects of prayer:

• start a women’s meeting as soon as possible;
• find a suitable place in the village of Leshnice;
• for documents needed for the Stropcke project ;
• for the co-workers, that their trust in the Lord can increase.

We want to thank all of them that are praying and supporting the mission in Albania. During this month we have seen as the Lord has answered our request to open a new meeting in Leshnice and to find the new house in Cerrave.

" The earnest prayer of a righteous man has great power and wonderful result" James 5:16

God bless your life.

Yours in Christ

Sardella’s family and the church in Albania