Dana Molla Bethesda House of Grace
Bethesda-Gouse Of Grace is a non profit organization that was founded to help orphans and other helpless children. This Organization is already hosting 32 orphans who come from streets, non-functioning families or are very poor and their parents are not able to supply even the minimum of life's needs. We are over joyed to have the opportunity to bring Gods love and care in the life of
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these hopeless children. We also minister to the community through our daily care center "Hope for Children" that disciples more than 100 children in weekly basis. "Summer Camp" is another great project we do where hundreds of children from the north of Albania join our Camp and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ, experiencing His love and care. Let the children come to Me...for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. JESUS.
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LAtest Update
Dear friends and partners,
I wish my letter finds you well and thriving in the calling of God for each one of you.
I have learnt now, after 28 years of following the Master in the narrow path, that serving Him and following the divine calling has a great price. I am fully committed to pay whatever price it takes to bring the light of Christ in the midst of the darkness that has covered our country.
Having lived half of my life under the terror of communism, imprisoned in isolation from the truth, without the right to mention God, far from any other country that was different than us, without any rights of freedom, after the fall of communism, when I received the Lord Jesus and began to follow Him, I thought we would live a great life of freedom, prosperity and great blessing. But it was not so in many respects. After 29 years of democracy we see our country and people more corrupted than ever. Life's good principals and values have been crashed down and deteriorating year after year and now things we would not even think of or imagine years ago, are happening in front of our eyes. Albania not only is practicing and experiencing the worst of the Western culture habits like drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, domestic violence, incest, abortion, divorce and abandoning their children, but also the era of mafia talking over city after city since the government has been in their hands for a long time.And all of this, comes on top of the highest rate of poverty in Europe.
Albania, according to the latest statistics spends for daily food alone 47% of their monthly income. You can imagine why all this desperation to leave the country, escape the poverty and impossibility, for a better life and a future for their children.
The despair and hopelessness is evident and obvious in peoples hearts and lives every day and everywhere. No one talks about building the country. More and more people are leaving for a normal life elsewhere. Just in the last 5 years 400.000 Albanians have asked asylum in Europe and other parts of the world.
We are extremely sad! Who is going to build the country??
This plague has effected even born again Christians by bringing their hopes to dust, thus leaving the country like many others. Remind you, that we are 20 thousand born again believers, spread out all over the country from North to South, East to West, in small local churches.We hold the weight of the country on our shoulders and bring it before the Lord, in fasting and prayer, continually. Some of us do believe that things will change therefore we stand in faith, prayer and fasting continually, before the throne of God for Albania.
God has promised that He will visit our land and bring a great awaking that has never happened before, and we stand for that in the name of the Lord!!
To say that we never feel like fainting, giving up and leave everything behind for a normal life,would be a lie. We do, including me. The pressure, hopelessness and loneliness is far greater than our strength. And sometimes we crawl instead of walking and walk slow instead of running. But we hold on and stead fast to the promise of God in Isaiah 40:29-31...He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless....
Myself and Bethesda team hold on to the vision of reaching out to the children and youth of the country, bringing them to the love of the Savior by providing shelter for those who need it, food, protection, education and direction in life, preparing them for adulthood by installing in them love and compassion for children like them. We have done this for 25 years but full time for 20 years. The Lord, has brought many children and youth to Himself through this ministry. Many are out there now, grown up and contributing in different areas of life, bringing a change in other children's lives.
As you know,I have shared before, the Organization Heart to Heart in Sweden, who we had an agreement to stand financially for the salaries of the workers every year but also covered other projects, went down financially two and half years years ago. They were forced to reduce their funds to Bethesda into 45% and that happened abruptly, bringing us into financial crises.Because of that we were forced to close the summer Camp with 300 hundred children, exposed to the truth of the gospel and salvation, every summer. Closed down Hope for Children education and development Center with over a 120 children on board every year. And leave out many children who needed shelter. These projects we have been running successfully for over 18 years in raw.
We have been planting abundant seeds of love and salvation for over 20 years but now we are at a place of survival and maintaining a limited number of children at Bethesda House.
It has not been easy for us as a team, but by the help of the Lord through you we managed to stand and continue with a reduced number of workers, which caused us to take more work on us who are still working.The grace of the Lord has been sufficient to keep and sustain us.
Just recently, they announced another reduction of funds, this time into just two salaries a month. We are 9 full time workers, so 7 of them are left without salary.
This has brought me to my knees before the Lord. The despair is great and so is distress. The only practical, immediate solution is to send half of the children away, back to where they came from, lay off half of the workers and maintain only one home and half of the workers, in order to pay them and cover the expenses, with the income of finances we have.
But that decision is very hard for us because we know where the children come from...from the streets, from darkness, abuse, poverty and they have to go back into the hands of the enemy. I ask myself and ask the Lord: Does the kingdom of God has more resources than this? Is the kingdom of God capable of to take care of the orphans and abandoned children of Albania and the world????
The answer comes very clear. YES!!! Yes indeed!!! The Lord has never run out of resources even in the midst of famine and calamity. He owns everything and He can support His work all over. Therefore, I decided to not give up and not let despair rip my heart apart, but instead, believe in the promises of the Father who claim to be the father of the fatherless.
I am sharing these thoughts with you because I believe, just like me and our team, you also believe the same thing.
God's love and will never disappoint. God's hand has not been shortened.
I beg you and encourage you to take this in prayer and stand with us in these difficult times. The sun will shine again over Albania and her children will smile again and desire to live and build their country. But for now, the Lord needs you to join us in prayer and supplication and in any effort needed to take care of the hopeless children and not send them away.
Together we can do it! Together we can bring hope and life to the lost children of this country.
I pray we all will do our part to change this and believe God to do the rest!
I pray we will stand together for the cause of the least of these in this country!
I pray the Lord will lead us into actions we have never done before for the good of the Kingdom and the children of God!
I pray that we will hear the voice of the Lord for and into the situation, not only for an emergent solution but for a long term solution as well.
I trust you will take this before the Lord and ask Him. And I expect you to bring feed back and strategies that the Lord has given you, how to better maintain, but also thrive in helping even more children in this country.
Please don't hesitate to share with me and our team. We will bring them to the table, discuss, pray and see how the Lord leads us in the near and far future.
Right now we need an urgent solution!
I look forward to hearing from you! Please be in touch! We need your presence!
May the Lord bless you and make His face shine upon you as you take action to save the children!
Isaiah 58:7...it is not to share your food with the hungry and give shelter to the homeless, clothe naked when you see them....?
Blessing and honor
Grateful for each one of you and your help!!
Dana & Bethesda Team
Albania
Bethesda-House of Grace
Mobile: 00355 69 4432837
I wish my letter finds you well and thriving in the calling of God for each one of you.
I have learnt now, after 28 years of following the Master in the narrow path, that serving Him and following the divine calling has a great price. I am fully committed to pay whatever price it takes to bring the light of Christ in the midst of the darkness that has covered our country.
Having lived half of my life under the terror of communism, imprisoned in isolation from the truth, without the right to mention God, far from any other country that was different than us, without any rights of freedom, after the fall of communism, when I received the Lord Jesus and began to follow Him, I thought we would live a great life of freedom, prosperity and great blessing. But it was not so in many respects. After 29 years of democracy we see our country and people more corrupted than ever. Life's good principals and values have been crashed down and deteriorating year after year and now things we would not even think of or imagine years ago, are happening in front of our eyes. Albania not only is practicing and experiencing the worst of the Western culture habits like drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, domestic violence, incest, abortion, divorce and abandoning their children, but also the era of mafia talking over city after city since the government has been in their hands for a long time.And all of this, comes on top of the highest rate of poverty in Europe.
Albania, according to the latest statistics spends for daily food alone 47% of their monthly income. You can imagine why all this desperation to leave the country, escape the poverty and impossibility, for a better life and a future for their children.
The despair and hopelessness is evident and obvious in peoples hearts and lives every day and everywhere. No one talks about building the country. More and more people are leaving for a normal life elsewhere. Just in the last 5 years 400.000 Albanians have asked asylum in Europe and other parts of the world.
We are extremely sad! Who is going to build the country??
This plague has effected even born again Christians by bringing their hopes to dust, thus leaving the country like many others. Remind you, that we are 20 thousand born again believers, spread out all over the country from North to South, East to West, in small local churches.We hold the weight of the country on our shoulders and bring it before the Lord, in fasting and prayer, continually. Some of us do believe that things will change therefore we stand in faith, prayer and fasting continually, before the throne of God for Albania.
God has promised that He will visit our land and bring a great awaking that has never happened before, and we stand for that in the name of the Lord!!
To say that we never feel like fainting, giving up and leave everything behind for a normal life,would be a lie. We do, including me. The pressure, hopelessness and loneliness is far greater than our strength. And sometimes we crawl instead of walking and walk slow instead of running. But we hold on and stead fast to the promise of God in Isaiah 40:29-31...He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless....
Myself and Bethesda team hold on to the vision of reaching out to the children and youth of the country, bringing them to the love of the Savior by providing shelter for those who need it, food, protection, education and direction in life, preparing them for adulthood by installing in them love and compassion for children like them. We have done this for 25 years but full time for 20 years. The Lord, has brought many children and youth to Himself through this ministry. Many are out there now, grown up and contributing in different areas of life, bringing a change in other children's lives.
As you know,I have shared before, the Organization Heart to Heart in Sweden, who we had an agreement to stand financially for the salaries of the workers every year but also covered other projects, went down financially two and half years years ago. They were forced to reduce their funds to Bethesda into 45% and that happened abruptly, bringing us into financial crises.Because of that we were forced to close the summer Camp with 300 hundred children, exposed to the truth of the gospel and salvation, every summer. Closed down Hope for Children education and development Center with over a 120 children on board every year. And leave out many children who needed shelter. These projects we have been running successfully for over 18 years in raw.
We have been planting abundant seeds of love and salvation for over 20 years but now we are at a place of survival and maintaining a limited number of children at Bethesda House.
It has not been easy for us as a team, but by the help of the Lord through you we managed to stand and continue with a reduced number of workers, which caused us to take more work on us who are still working.The grace of the Lord has been sufficient to keep and sustain us.
Just recently, they announced another reduction of funds, this time into just two salaries a month. We are 9 full time workers, so 7 of them are left without salary.
This has brought me to my knees before the Lord. The despair is great and so is distress. The only practical, immediate solution is to send half of the children away, back to where they came from, lay off half of the workers and maintain only one home and half of the workers, in order to pay them and cover the expenses, with the income of finances we have.
But that decision is very hard for us because we know where the children come from...from the streets, from darkness, abuse, poverty and they have to go back into the hands of the enemy. I ask myself and ask the Lord: Does the kingdom of God has more resources than this? Is the kingdom of God capable of to take care of the orphans and abandoned children of Albania and the world????
The answer comes very clear. YES!!! Yes indeed!!! The Lord has never run out of resources even in the midst of famine and calamity. He owns everything and He can support His work all over. Therefore, I decided to not give up and not let despair rip my heart apart, but instead, believe in the promises of the Father who claim to be the father of the fatherless.
I am sharing these thoughts with you because I believe, just like me and our team, you also believe the same thing.
God's love and will never disappoint. God's hand has not been shortened.
I beg you and encourage you to take this in prayer and stand with us in these difficult times. The sun will shine again over Albania and her children will smile again and desire to live and build their country. But for now, the Lord needs you to join us in prayer and supplication and in any effort needed to take care of the hopeless children and not send them away.
Together we can do it! Together we can bring hope and life to the lost children of this country.
I pray we all will do our part to change this and believe God to do the rest!
I pray we will stand together for the cause of the least of these in this country!
I pray the Lord will lead us into actions we have never done before for the good of the Kingdom and the children of God!
I pray that we will hear the voice of the Lord for and into the situation, not only for an emergent solution but for a long term solution as well.
I trust you will take this before the Lord and ask Him. And I expect you to bring feed back and strategies that the Lord has given you, how to better maintain, but also thrive in helping even more children in this country.
Please don't hesitate to share with me and our team. We will bring them to the table, discuss, pray and see how the Lord leads us in the near and far future.
Right now we need an urgent solution!
I look forward to hearing from you! Please be in touch! We need your presence!
May the Lord bless you and make His face shine upon you as you take action to save the children!
Isaiah 58:7...it is not to share your food with the hungry and give shelter to the homeless, clothe naked when you see them....?
Blessing and honor
Grateful for each one of you and your help!!
Dana & Bethesda Team
Albania
Bethesda-House of Grace
Mobile: 00355 69 4432837