Have your prayers been answered? Albania

Have your prayers been answered?

by Besa Shapllo, Mission Possible Albania

Every three months TEN asks its partners in Europe to provide prayer requests for the Heart Cry prayer diary and these are sent out to supporters. Here’s a story of how prayers have been answered.

In February 2019, our partner, Besa Shapllo in Albania sent the following request: "We need to have some camp activities outside of the Bathore area. But these activities have a high cost for our budget. Our prayer request is that God makes it possible that this path be opened for our Teen Group!"

Besa explains, "Bathore is a shanty town of 7,000 people a few miles north of the capital, Tirana. It’s home to Mission Possible Albania’s Hope Centre. It is important to understand the cultural obstacles we face. There is a reluctance among families in the Bathore community to allow their children to travel outside the town. The absence of teenage daughters of marrying age, even for a few nights, can generate awkward gossip. It would be an acute embarrassment to ask poor families in Bathore to pay for the cost of the camps and many Muslims

The teenagers experienced one of their most meaningful and beautiful weekends in their lives.

are afraid of their children becoming Christians.

"The specific prayer requests were published in TEN’s Heart Cry prayer diary for 6th to 10th April 2019. God answered prayer. The children’s summer camp in July proved to be one the most fruitful camps ever organised, and the teenagers experienced one of their most meaningful and beautiful weekends in their lives. Thank you to TEN and every supporter who prayed for the Mission Possible Albania camps."