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Ever had one of those experiences where you wish you could say what you knew everyone was thinking?! Check out this article about a small group who dropped the masks and finally got real with one another and discovered they all had something in common after all.

What about you? Can you relate?

OWENSBORO, Ky. — A small group from Rolling Hills Christian Church arrived at a place of unprecedented honesty with each other last Tuesday when they discovered that nobody in the group actually liked anyone else.
“We all realized, ‘You know what? I don’t care for any of you, and I find your kids annoying,’” says one man who was present.
The moment of openness came while they planned their annual small group camping trip. Some disagreed over dates and camping locations, until one man finally said, “To be honest, I don’t relish spending any extra time with any of you, especially not a week-long trip.”
Others voiced their agreement and several people applauded. (Continued)

Austin and Tyler attend an amazing school.  It is a Christian school for English speaking children of the missionary and international community in Tirana.  We have been so impressed with the quality of education and teachers at their school.  I am posting this recent notice we received from the director about openings at the school.  If you know of anyone who might be interested in serving missionary kids (MKs) and their families and experience life in another culture, pass it on!

GDQ School has been serving the educational needs of international mission children since it started in 1993. We have a student roll of 88 students from 14 different nationalities.

• Mission workers with a passion for teaching. Maybe you have a teaching license from your home country and are looking for a new challenge in Albania.
• Bi-lingual Korean missionaries in country who might have several hours during the week to help support our Korean students.
• You have flexible hours and feel you could help support a main grade teacher in the classroom (You do not need a degree/ diploma for the Classroom Aide post. Just a willingness to serve.) We would consider ex-pat and Albanian personnel for these Classroom Assistant positions.
• You want to help in any way you can with MK (Missionary Kids.)
• Perhaps you have a friend/ contact out of country who might be interested in applying. If so, please pass on these details.

This is a little coffee shop that underwent renovations last year. They added an outdoor eating area/patio on one side and did other updates on the inside. When the demolitions on Rruga Barakadave started it was the last little shop that remained untouched (little building on the right with the glass front).

Since they were taking out the front 3 meters of every store you can see the contrast of the buildings on the left that had already had their first 3 meters torn down.

Here it is a few days later.

A few days later I was walking by and noticing that since they can no longer build out, they are going up and adding a second floor (pictures to come later). One thing Albanians do have is tenacity! Survival is their middle name.

Welcome to our new site and the home for news and updates about life and ministry in Albania!  We hope you like the new look and feel of the site and will find it easy to get to our blog (right here on the home page!) and all kinds of information about life and ministry in Albania!  Watch here as we get the site linked to our domain and start posting this month!