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Stories of Mission

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Zooks Teach English at Lezha Academic Center

Our task was to enhance language preparation for incoming 9th and 10th graders who will need to pursue all of their studies in English. While we worked on some foundational grammar and vocabulary, most of our class activities emphasized conversational communication.

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Lee and Peg Martin with mission workers and friends in Albania

A Trip to Albania: Our Availability as God’s Instruments in Mission

Albania was a distant place we’d hear about through faithful missionaries, but being among many wonderful people transformed it to a nation and people we hold in our hearts and prayers in a profound new way.

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Rafael and Solange Tartari with Paulo

Brazilian Family Returns to Albania for Second Term

Rafael and Solange Tartari recently returned to Lezhë, Albania, following a home assignment visiting family and churches in Brazil. They will work collaboratively with the VMMissions mission team in Albania in their second term.

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Norma Teles and Joshua Center children, 2012

Mission Encouragements at Joshua Center

It has been a cold winter here in Lezhe, but we have been blessed in a lot of ways. The work at Joshua Center is going well. I can see God working in a very special way in the lives of the little ones.

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Allen Umble (right) and Samuel Jablonski, member of the EMM YES team.

A Thirty-year Round Trip of Mission

Thirty years and the circle has come around complete. Only God knows what else will come around full circle in the next thirty years out of the obedience to the call of Jesus by his followers.

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Jessica Hedrick and LAC senior

Miraculous Turnaround at Lezha Academic Center

We have been through our share of fires this year at Lezha Academic Center. The first months of our ministry here were full of conflict. Each of us had days when we felt like throwing in the towel, but somehow we made it through.

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Lezha Academic Center opens first school year

The sounds of school ring loud and clear this September at Albanian Christian School’s Lezha Academic Center (LAC) in Lezhe, Albania. The city is located along the Adriatic Sea in the northwest corner of the country at the foothills of the Albanian Alps. Virginia Mennonite Missions has had a presence in this city of approximately…

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Caleb Benner teaches at Lezha Academic Center in Albania

Vision becomes reality for Lezha Academic Center

Lezha Academic Center, a vision of Klementina and Dini Shahini and an initiative supported by Virginia Mennonite Missions and Eastern Mennonite Missions, will open its doors in Lezhe, Albania in September 2011. A Vision Support Team is providing oversight to the school.

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