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Matt 28:18-20

18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
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John 20:10-16

10 Then the disciples went back to their homes, 11 but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

13 They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"

"They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

15 "Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?"

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him."

16 Jesus said to her, "Mary."

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).
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Durrës, Albania Church of Christ

Shkelqim (Çimi) Kafexhiu,
Preacher

The church in Durrës is doing well.
"A meeting place has been found and a native preacher is now serving the congregation," January 2002.

"The attendance for each Sunday is between 43 Christians to 47 with an all time high of  70. Interns are in training. Some will attend the IBIA in Durres in preparation to become preachers."

10th Anniversary of Durrës Church of Christ
On May 29th 2011 the church in Durres will celebrate the10th anniversary of the church. The work in Durres started as an outreach of the church in Tirana.

Çimi started to work in Durres September 2000 and in January 7th 2001 we held the first worship service in Durres. Since then, a number of missionaries have greatly contributed to this church. We want to invite all the missionaries who have invested their time and energy for furthering of God’s kingdom in Durres, Albania. It will be a special Sunday of celebration with all of you and together will give glory to God who has a great people in this city.

 

Nov 2011

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“Enter His gates with Thanksgiving and His courts with praise; Give THANKS to Him and Praise His name. For the Lord is good and His Love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.”       PSALMS 100:4-5
 

The church in Durres and my family send all of you our love and best wishes for a Blessed THANKSGIVING Day in which we remember and THANK GOD for His many Gifts and BLESSINGS. PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD!!
 
Thank YOU for your love for us and the mission work we are doing together in partnership for the cause of Christ. May God bless ALL of you in abundance!
 
Two baptisms!
On August 5th and 24th, two new souls were added to the Body of Christ in Durres; Fationa Aliu and Zamira Kruti are the two girls who put on Christ and cleansed by his blood in the waters of baptism. We rejoiced with these two sisters and give thanks to God who works in the lives of people to change them into the likeness of Christ.
 

Bible Bowl 2011!
The church in Durres continues to host the yearly Bible Bowl for the churches of Christ in Albania. This year on September 10th, we had 9 churches (40 players altogether) participating in the competition. The participants studied from the book of Acts of Apostles and enjoyed the fellowship together. We organize this event not to be on rivalry with each other but to study and grow in the knowledge of God’s Word. First place was taken by Korca Church, Tirana church took the second place, and Lushnja and Durres took the third place. Iden Kalemaj from Vlora church of Christ took the first place for the individual competition, second place was taken by Sojana Mezini from Lushnja church and Skender Kola from the church in Durres took the third place.
A blessing to my family!
 

On October 3rd, God blessed our family with another baby boy. Anila delivered the baby through C-section. We named our baby boy Sion (Zion) and we pray that he may grow and become a mount for God. All is well with Anila and Sion now. We give thanks to God for blessing us so much with this wonderful gift.
Church members in Albanian Bible School!

Four members of our church in Durres are attending the Albanian Bible School in Durres for a year. They started school on September 19th and they will end on May 2012. This school offers Bible lessons only in the evenings three days a week from 5pm to 8pm. One of the four students is Skender Kola who is really enjoying the studies and is growing in the Word of God. He is a great potential for the future to become a preacher of the Word. I have encouraged him and I pray that God may call him to serve as the preacher in the near future.

Life of the church!
I continue to preach and teach the Word of God to the church. As I preach and teach I try to apply the Word of God into the lives of believers. The Word of God is relevant to all generations and it speaks to our needs as we read it and study. I always encourage the church members to have their own Bible, read, study, and live it. On Wednesdays I’m teaching from the Psalms and the purpose of this study has to do with encouraging the church to pray like David did, to trust like David did, to worship God like David did,  and to praise God like David did. After all, David was called by God ‘man after God’s own heart’ and so can we.

I continue to teach on regular basis WEI classes with a number of adult students. I use this tool of teaching in order to get connected with the students and spend time with them by sharing Jesus.

We continue to have fellowships such as ‘prayer night’ for ladies, watching Christian movies together, eating meals together and other activities with all ages and groups within the church with the purpose of being in unity with each other. New teachers for children are stepping up and being trained to teach different ages on Sunday bible class.

On Fridays I’m teaching a series of lessons from the book of Galatians. The purpose of this study is to teach the church the Gospel of grace in which we stand and how to connect to God’s Spirit in order to grow in the likeness of Christ. We cannot be transformed by our own efforts even by trying harder.

On Fridays also Ari and Suela are teaching the class of teenagers separately the girls from the boys. God is growing this class in numbers and spiritually and we pray that this group of teenagers my say yes to Christ one day soon. Ari and Suela are teaching also different groups of children, teenagers as part of World English Institute classes.

A special class for church couples!
On November 12th, I started a special class for couples of the church at our home. We have prayed for more Christian couples in the church and we have now more than nine of them. We are studying the theme of “Growing together in Christ”. All couples participating in the class were encouraged by the Word of God and the fellowship we had together.
 

Online worship!
We have a group of Christians living outside of Albania especially in Italy who are worshipping with us on Sundays through internet. Most of the places where they live there is no church so they join with us in worship together.  We praise the Lord for the technology we use to bring us together in glorifying his name.
 
Faithfully in Christ Jesus
Shkelqim and Anila Kafexhiu
November 24, 2011