Now a big focus for us is preparing for the Albania tour with Mercy Street band October 11-27. Most of the Proclaim-Jacksonville team will be part of that outreach as musicians or on service or tech teams. Jim is in the band, on tenor sax and clarinet. Kathie will help with administrative support and on the video team.
This will be Proclaim’s 4th tour in
Our tour in the capital city of Tirana includes 2 concerts with local churches. Then 8 events are planned in partnership with New Life Institute (Campus Crusade) with a strategy of generating a national, long-term evangelism movement in the universities of Albania as the new academic year is gearing up. In past student concerts we have experienced significant numbers of students coming to faith in Christ. Also, hundreds of response cards have been filled out by students, serving as the core group for follow up by NLI workers in the weeks and even months following a Mercy Street concert. In preparation Campus Crusade is publishing a magazine to distribute to all the students at their five campuses. The concerts are the centerpiece of the magazine featuring five articles that were written by members of Mercy Street specifically for this publication.
A few days ago we put out an urgent prayer need for a sound tech for this tour -- now God has answered and that strategic position is filled!