Ne jemi të hapur!!.....We are open!!

Chris writes: hello from Gjakova's newest cafe!! So we have stepped out of the boat and we are open at last! It has been a long road to get here...and in reality we are not 'here' yet but we are certainly getting there!!

Business is slow but the doors are open now at least!!

We have now been open for nine days and this is our third week as we can only manage to open for three days a week at the moment owing to our other commitments. We have a great team here volunteering with us.....one of the young people from our church, he has been with me making the coffees and serving customers. We also have a lady from the USA who has been with us for a month who has been a great support, especially to Lorraine. In addition we have a couple from the UK here for a few weeks who have been helping with some plumbing and joinery and other jobs around.....we have many more people helping us but these are the main helpers for this stage of our adventure....

..................I have been thinking how amazing God is and how His timing is perfect...not just a recent revelation {!}....all these people have come at the perfect time in order to fulfill their God given task in the Lighthouse..not sooner or later but at the right time....but we must keep trusting God more than ever as in a week we will be on our own again here as all these people return to where they came from and our yp to school...God is so great..He is Awesome!!

Thanks so much for your support and prayers for this ministry.

In Him

The culmination:.'...desires...' Ps 37:4

Chris writes: when we first came to Kosova as a couple in 2008 we realised there was not such a big drug problem as the majority of people were under 30, so there was more of potential for a big problem in the future..we realised this was a lost generation...a generation who had largely lost hope and wanted to leave the country...the main drug was tobacco, usually with a macciato...thus a generation that needed education... ......when we joined OM in 2010 I had a vision for a cafe. We started off visiting the schools doing drug education but despite building some great relationships with young people this was shortlived and of course we know anyway that the best way to educate is by example...thus the vision was birthing.

                                  Tonight, two years on, that vision became a reality as we opened the doors on Hope Inn Cafe at Lighthouse.

There is so much more I could write but it is late and as a picture speaks a thousand words...here are two thousand........

Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed to make this become a reality and to Lorraine of course who believed in this vision......Ps 37:4...xx