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Photo: A Ministries Team leads outreach in Albania, Greece and Macedonia in July

A team of 13 Americans from churches in Alaska, California, South Carolina and Florida with Albanian Alongsiders, Gail and Doni Lilo, ministered under the direction of Albanian believers in Albania, Greece and Macedonia during the last half of July.

In Bilishti, Albania, the team partnered with Albanian teen and adult leadership to conduct Marriage Enrichment, Grief, Women’s and Men’s seminars, Sunday worship and programs for children and teens. We made numerous home visits with folks seeking to know Jesus.

During the same period, another Albanian (Bilisht)/American team traveled to Berea, Greece and Monastir, Macedonia to plant and nurture churches among Albanians living in those countries.

Photo: Side by side for sake of the Gospel in Roubaix, France! Church members with Alongside team represent Algeria, France, South Africa, Great Britain, and the United States.

A Ministries Team leads outreach in Roubaix, France in July

During July, Alongside Ministries sent a small, international team alongside L’eglise Apostolique (The Apostolic Church is a small French denomination) in Roubaix, a city in Northern France on the Belgian border. Roubaix is a city of 110,000 people, at least 60% of whom are Muslims. The city suffers extreme unemployment (45%!) and has only a handful (6 or 8) of evangelical churches with a few hundred believers in Jesus Christ.

The uniqueness of L’eglise Apostolique is that it reaches both traditionally French people and those from a North African, Muslim background with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Alongside’s multinational team included Americans, South Africans and a Britisher. We came alongside through ministries of worship, intercession for Roubaix, distributing literature and videos on the streets, visiting in homes, and encouraging young believers.

Evangelism in France is often a gradual, individual, and highly relational process. We were encouraged when a French couple attended worship – for the first time in their entire lives! At a barbeque lunch after worship, this gentleman, an atheist, said, “I believe in nothing, but during the worship service I felt SOMETHING!” He is now seeking God and church leaders are following up.

France needs Jesus. Please pray for France!

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