Progress

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Bright Star Team

PSF: How do you track the progress of the children from 2001 until now?

	ELDINA: I see in the children a big change concerning the desire they have to do things by themselves. They are ready to sing and ready to accomplish some things by themselves. I see that the Lord is raising the children in faith and in their understanding of His truths. And they are understanding more and more the reason why we are telling them the stories and why we are singing to them. And this is to give the glory only to God. We are seeing many fruits in the lives of the children.
	ARIAN: I see that change of the children is big. I am very optimistic when I think and look back how the children were when we started the meetings. They were wild in their faces and they were skinny and poorly dressed. Their clothes were so dirty, they were sad. They had a sorrowful look in their faces. But through the meetings we saw a change in the kids, even in their expression. Now they are so looking forward to our meetings that they come one hour early! They are very much rejoicing that we come to their village. But even the spiritual way of how they are dealing now, their spiritual look is much different and now they are having much more education and manners of behavior. Before they were just screaming at each other, offending each other without any problem. But now I see a change in them. They are more polite, tolerant of each other. I believe that it is a good progress.
	MANDI: Two years ago where we starting the Bright Star team, the children, they didn’t know the Bible. But now if you see the difference -- it’s because they are finding the verses in the Bible. And some are fast! Faster than me! (laughs) Some are so interested to know everything from the Bible. I think this is the biggest [change].
	MERSIN: We have in fact seen them growing because I remember them they were so little and now they are so big! They are growing – not just physically but in God. I have seen them growing, learning more about God and when we go to them they are so happy when they see us. They are so happy they like to learn, to hear. In fact, we can see when Eldina speaks about the stories, they are always amazed! It will take a lot of time, but they are growing.
	KLARA: In the beginning when they came, they didn’t know who Jesus was, first of all. This was the main thing. And when we went to Kasalle they said, “We believe in Jesus,” but in their mind it was Jesus as a tradition. They were catholic and they thought that Jesus was kind of like a piece of wood, hanging on the cross and you should pray before this [symbol]. They didn’t have the real meaning of who Jesus is. They didn’t know how to sing. Not just for Jesus, but they didn’t know how to make melody (laughs). In the beginning, we tried to sing and they were all mixed and we thought, “Oh my goodness, what do we do with this?” (laughs). As I remember everything in the beginning, it seems like zero. But we have seen that they are just two years, but God has blessed us a lot! For me it’s amazing to see that the children are reading the Bible in their homes and if you say, “Open the Bible to John 3:16” and they open it quickly, immediately! And it seems like, wow, how did they learn this thing? They know a lot of things! Even the little children. They go home and sing, for example, “Lavdi Zoti, Hallelujah (Praise the Lord, Hallelujah).” When we go home and meet their parents they say, “Oh,” for example, “My daughter Ambra, she sings all the time around the home songs for Jesus.” Not only that but in my Bible study I asked the children, and I said, “Can you tell me why you should believe. If someone should come to you and say, ‘Okay, this Jesus is not true. You should believe in another religion! Why do you have to believe in Jesus? Do you have a strong reason why you do that?’” And they started explaining to me the right things, and they said, “Jesus is the only way. All the others are just religions.” Different things like that and it is amazing. It’s that way in all of the villages, in Marikaj, Kasalle, and Vlashaj. I think that the things are changing for 100% better. We have seen that this not just from man, but we have seen the hand of God in this ministry.”
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