Day 12 Albania

DAY 12:

WHAT IF? Your family were violent towards you because of your faith in Jesus—where will you find the strength to endure?

Imagine if your family ignored you, beat you and disowned you because you became a Christian?

It is hard to imagine this happening in an Australian context but it is a common occurrence in many non-Christian countries.

It’s not just within family homes either. Sometimes whole villages will hunt down a new convert in order to kill them or try and force them to convert back to their former beliefs.

When your own family, friends and community betray you—it’s the type of persecution that hurts the most.

What would you do?

“And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.” Matthew 19:29