Natalie has been sharing with Jacob and his wife Tewba for more than a year, and had felt God working in their lives, before seeing them turn away due to family pressure and fear.

“I cried when Jacob and Tewba turned away so definitely," Natalie said, “but months later Jacob began to sense God drawing him again.”

What if you had to read the Bible in the language of a neighbouring country, like French or Dutch? Would you get much out of it? Probably not!

WEC workers, alongside local believers, are involved in helping people to have the Word of God in their own mother tongue. It’s an arduous process and many are the obstacles and spiritual battles to be overcome. But praise God, He answers prayer!

Beth Smith, learning language and culture in Albania, describes a re-encounter with the gospel for herself.

Something has changed in me – and it has been a breakthrough in a very long work in process!

I've shared in many of my letters my struggles and inner battles with my thoughts and feelings about myself and about the difficult things in life. Circumstances around me and life in Albania have not been the main reasons of my hard times; instead it has been my doubts and my fears that have accompanied me to inner desolate places.