Please help to ignite the Great Re-Awakening in Europe

[Inhocsigno]

Just wanted to report the happy news from our summer sojourning with the mission teams in Greece, we're having a great and rapid expansion of the large and small ministries both. In our home-base in Epirus alone, and just over the summer and with connections within our mission movement, we've had more than 3 dozen American families move and start planting down roots! With many Canadian, Brit, Argentine, South African and Australian and New Zealand families joining too, now with active collaborations.

It's one of the biggest mission growth spurts we've ever seen in NW Greece, and already we've been able to bring in dozens of new recruits in our missions to Albania and Kosovo (bordering the region in Greece), achieving over 100 conversions just in our teams over the summer! A new church was built in a span of just 2 months over in SW Albania, lead by a Kosovo Albanian pastor who converted and joined the church last year. This is in addition to many Turkish and Syrian converts in Greece itself, given the history between Greece and Turkey, seeing this kind of friendship and fellow worship in Christ between the peoples is amazing!

Greetings Joey,
This is all great news! We have also been getting good news trickling in from our ministry teams in the Balkans and SE Europe and Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and increasing even portions of NW Turkey have been sites of great progress. Keep up your great work!

 

[JoeySoley]

Glad to spread the good news and good cheer! Our teams there are super motivated and well organized so expecting many many other good news updates too before the Advent season kicks in.

 

[Ceciledemarseilles]

We have also been seeing record conversion rates in our missions lately so delighted to see it happening in Greece and elsewhere around the continent! In France it's of course been very high among the Algerian and Tunisian populations, but we're also seeing high levels of conversion for the Albanian, Turkish, Arab and Iranian populations here. The highest we've seen. The breakthrough with the North African populations is of big importance because like it appears a lot of you have you been saying, they became our best evangelists back home. If it hasn't been mentioned already, many of the mountainous and Berber regions across Algeria and Tunisia have already been witnessing an incredible blossoming of new churches, for first time in centuries. Then now with the new group of converts coming in from France and nearby, they're able to connect and access resources they lacked before, leading to an even larger blossoming of churches across the region. I would say it's a miracle, but of course it's the fruit of a lot of hard work and dedication among our missions here. Our core of course is mostly Americans who've made their way into France but we now benefit from the contributions of mission members coming from all over the Americas and Oceania too. And miracles in their own way are happening becuase of it.

 

[Inhocsigno]

Greetings Cecile,
Miracles indeed! Thank you for using that word as it helps to capture one of the things that makes the mission experience special. It was something a few of our earlly mission teachers taught us years ago, that among the occupations we can engage in, missionary and evangelical work are truly unique in the way we can touch the hearts and waken the spirit in the people we reach. We make a critical difference in the converted and the evangelized, and for their children and children's children. There are few other things we engage in where we can genuinely make such a difference and a little miracle it does feel like when we reach our flock.