December 18, 2005
Once completed, the 7,500 square foot building will be used seven days a week, year around. The Tirana church will conduct its worship services, Bible classes, seminars, training classes, weddings, funerals, and fellowship activities there.
World English Institute will conduct its short-term mission campaigns there each summer. Long-term missionaries and nationals will teach their students there—twelve months a year. International Bible Institute of Albania will teach its courses there. The building will also provide teaching space for visiting professors from NationsUniversity, and NU students will be tested there. The library will be available to anyone who wants to study God’s word.
This building will have three floors. The basement will have a lobby, fellowship hall, kitchen, youth lounge/classroom, toilet, and benevolence room. The ground floor will have offices, restrooms, classrooms, and a library with computers.
The upper floor will contain an auditorium that seats 270 people, a lobby, and a rest room. A covered roof top garden will accommodate outdoor worship services, fellowship gatherings, and weddings. The total cost of this multi-purpose facility is estimated at $275,000 including a large automatic generator that will provide electricity for the building when the power goes off—which is almost daily.
Thanks to the generosity of Christians across the country, the needed funds have been raised. We are especially grateful to the brothers in Maryville, Tennessee who have pledged or contributed more than $100,000 (including the generator) during the past four months. Praise God for his spiritual and material blessings. He is good. So are his people.
