Christianity Explored (CE) is a seven week series for people who want to investigate Christianity or brush up on the basics. It explores who Jesus is, why he came and what it means to follow him and is done in many churches throughout the UK.
The course was only brought to Albania in May this year, with 80 pastors attending the launch in Tirana, the capital. Now, six courses have finished with 36 people saying they have become Christians.
Pastor Craig Dyer is the Director of Training for CE and has visited Albanian churches to help launch it there.
Dyer told Premier Christian Radio that the idea to translate it started when some Albanian pastors were using the CE prison ministry version and asked if they could have the original course material for regular use in churches too.
“They loved the way that it took people directly to Mark’s gospel and didn’t assume any prior knowledge” he said.
To produce the course material in their vernacular, CE teamed up with Albanian pastor Erion Cuni and the charity Adopt-A-Child, who provide food, medical care and relational support for children in Albania from poor families.
140 CE leaders have been now been trained and 1,500 course notebooks printed, with 26 courses currently going on.
“We’re so encouraged to see the uptake” Dyer said, “It’s always a miracle, it’s always of God’s grace and we know that with anything like that…
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