Yes, and we've been pleasantly surprised at the level of uptake the Albanian missions have been enjoying, including from our American brethren now active and fully integrated in the European countries and their missions. Last weekend we did a somewhat informal survey among a few dozen of our affiliate churches in West Texas and up in the panhandle. To our amazement, even in this relatively modest sample, we got a report that close to 120 of the American ministers overseas in Europe--all fully and permanently settled there with their families--are involved in some way in the Albanian ministry and conversion efforts! Although some are working directly in Albanian and Kosovo proper, most are posted in ways like what you seem to indicate, in nearby countries especially Greece or Italy, or in the bigger European immigration magnets with a lot of Albanians esp in France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal and some of the Nordic countries. They've closely tailored their preachings to the Albanian people and their unique language and culture, translated materials and indeed, have made great reference to Skanderbeg and his example. And if around 120 expat ministers from just our group of Texas-based churches is that involved, one can only imaging the scale of the efforts underway!It's exciting to hear about these missions to the Albanian areas! We have a huge Albanian community in Greece and many are committed and fervent Christian converts, have helped cultivate churches back in their homelands, but we weren't aware there was such a systematic mission going on. It sounds like a lot of the Albanian-Greek Christians preaching back in Albania might be involved in it. And there was an article in one of our expat newspapers not too long ago about how Albanians really are coming back to the churches and building new ones. This is a great idea and we've helped to spread the news in our latest mission recruitment back in the US, we already have a couple prospective new American missionaries to Europe taking an interest in lending a hand.
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