This month in Durrës, Albania has been one of my favorites. We worked with the Durrës Christian Center, which has two day cares, and then two churches. Communism fell about 25 years ago, and this year is the 25th anniversary for the church.
Last night we went out for our last dinner with some of our hosts, and I think this may be the hardest month for me to leave. Albanians are a prideful, crazy, opprobrious, bunch of people. Those are usually characteristics I loath in humans, but I love them.
The staff and leaders are all young, with 14 and 16-year-olds running kids programs during church, a worship team of teenagers(some of the most talented musicians I have ever met), and most of the leaders are in their 20’s or 30’s.
We came along side a church that has established youth programs, community outreach, church services, bible studies, prayer services, youth meetings, worship nights, and every day was a giant conglomeration of different ministries.
Not once did I feel overwhelmed. Instead, I felt like we were part of a giant family. I am still amazed at the dedication even the teenagers have to this church. They have told us profusely that this month we have blessed them with preaching, prayer, running youth programs, manual labor, and genuine friendships. I think I’d call it even.
Anyway, we were with the guys from C-squad this month. That meant that I got to hang out with Luke Garmon, who is also a Story Leader. He and I worked on a couple of videos this month, but I’m going to just steal this one that was entirely his work and re-post it.
He posted it towards the beginning of the month, so it felt right to put things in context before I dump more blogs on here. Enjoy!
If you like the video, check out Luke’s other stuff at lukegarmon.theworldrace.org
If you don’t enjoy the video, go critique his other stuff at lukegarmon.theworldrace.org
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