LASTING FRUIT
With the fall of the iron curtain, not only did East Germany open up, but so did countries like Albania, arguably the most closed communist country behind the iron curtain. I (David) was able to witness first-hand the incredible spiritual hunger.In our first student mission trip there in the spring of 1992, we saw over 240 college students give their lives to Christ! It was nothing short of a spiritual awakening!
One of those Albanian college students who early on gave his life to Christ was Augustin Prenga. He became a member of a church we helped to plant in 1995. Later, he came on staff with our ministry in Albania, and was trained through our Biblical and Theological Development program. Later, he became a pastor/elder in that same church, and then became the leader of all the student ministries in Albania with our organisation (led about ~100 Albanian full-time Christian workers). Now, just in the last month, Augustin was challenged to lead the student ministries for all of Central and Eastern Europe (~800 full-time labourers)! He and his wife, Jeta, and their kids will be moving to Hungary joining us as we seek to serve the full-time Christian workers of our large region of 20 countries, including Russia!
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