OAC Publications
Borderlines
November 1993

Balkans Outreach '93

This September, seventy-seven participants (sixty-nine from Britain, seven from the USA & one from France) travelled to Greece for three weeks of outreach.

Those travelling by air suffered a nine hour delay because their plane was being used for a UN humanitarian flight! They eventually flew to Greece with Icelandic Airways.

The outreach started with two days of orientation at the Lighthouse Centre in Piraeus, Athens. After this the teams set off to five mission locations in Greece & Albania.

A team of thirteen remained in Piraeus to worked alongside five churches. Despite occasional heckling from cafe owners, several people made commitments every day as a result of the preaching. Follow-up is being handled by the local churches.

The team in Mylotopos helped with a church-planting project in Edessa & an outreach in Giannitsa. It was not unusal to see crowds of 200 stop at the open-air meetings. Many people came night after night to hear the Gospel.

Twenty team members sailed to the Island of Kos. Children's programmes were held in "Freedom Square" & open-airs took place by the harbour. There were many tourists about and the team were therefore able to put their considerable language ability to good use. Visits were also made to the prison, and it was even possible to arrange a twenty-five minute television appearance!

In Erseke, Albania, the team built on the achievements of Project Resurrection, which had renovated a school & undertaken much evangelism earlier in the year. The first children's open-air attracted 240 children! Other activities included youth meetings, door to door visiting & Bible studies in homes & the hospital.