Peter -n- Melodye

Tonight is Tuesday night. That's one of the 2 evenings each week when I go up to my team-mate Dave's house and we walk through his neighborhood, praying as we walk and searching for opportunities to share the Gospel. Tonight as I was riding my bike and almost to Dave's house I passed a guy I met last week. He had made a profession of faith months before but then seemed to lose interest. Last week he seemed more interested and it seems like God orchestrated several events for us to meet together tonight. This young man is bored and restless and unemployed. Are his motives to meet with us in hopes of some financial gain or is he really re-interested? Only God knows, but we were happy to go and drink a coffee. He took us to a coffee bar that he recommended. And then he did something that is very rare in Albania -- he deliberately took us back in among some trees at the back of the property so we could sit alone in peace and quiet. It was a delightful setting for an equ...

Last Thursday night I spent the evening sitting outside in a pretty run-down courtyard talking with 2 families. As the evening wore on more and more members of the family showed up. Someone came home with a cart powered by a motorcycle -- he gathers iron in my neighborhood to get paid a few cents per kilo for recycling. Then the older daughter came home with the baby -- they had been out begging. It went on for some time as there were several children. Their house itself is very shoddily constructed, but they are in the process of improving it as they are able. Last Thursday night they found some pieces of molding that were thrown out and they were "papering" (plastic'ing?) their walls to provide some insulation for the winter. Something is better than nothing. What was I doing? We went to visit the neighbor who has a cut on his foot and is diabetic. My team-mate had taken him to visit the health center a few days before and we were coming back to see how he was. ...