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From Survival to Purpose: A Life Transformed Through Local Church Partnership
A Roma leader in Albania shares how long-term partnership with a local church led to personal transformation, renewed purpose, and a growing community of faith.
Faithful Beginnings in Upper Egypt: When the Work Takes Time
Over several years, local believers in Upper Egypt have established eleven women’s groups, steadily building trust and opening doors for the Gospel in communities where lasting fruit takes time.
Faithfulness in the Balkans: How Everyday Believers Are Sharing the Gospel
Across the Balkans, Compel International equips local pastors and believers to share the Gospel through everyday relationships, resulting in steady, sustainable growth in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia.
A Torn Page That Changed a Life
A North African believer encounters Scripture through a torn page and begins a journey of faith marked by perseverance, persecution, and unwavering commitment to Christ.
On the Frontlines: The Church Proclaiming the Love of Christ in a Time of War
Amid ongoing conflict along the Iraq–Iran border, local believers are courageously living out the Gospel. Through partnership and prayer, the Church continues to bring hope, aid, and the love of Christ to those in need.
Hope in Cambodia’s Displacement Crisis
As conflict and displacement continue near Cambodia’s border with Thailand, Daly is visiting displaced families, encouraging house churches, and reaching out to refugees with practical help and the hope of Christ. Even Buddhist pagodas, where Christian witness is usually restricted, are becoming places where the gospel is being shared quietly and powerfully. Through Compel’s partnership with Daly, God is drawing families to faith and forming new house churches in the midst of hardship.
From a Closed Nation to a Growing Witness in the Balkans
Local believers in Albania are helping churches reach Muslim Roma communities while equipping leaders across the Balkans to bring the gospel to people who have rarely encountered it.
We Should Have Been There: Praying for Iranian and Iraqi Believers Near the Border
At this very moment, our team was meant to be near the Iranian border, worshiping and equipping first-generation believers who are courageously serving their communities. Instead, regional conflict has closed doors, disrupted travel, and left us unable to reach several Iranian families we love. Yet we trust God is still at work through faithful hearts. Pray with us—for protection, courage, peace, and a quick restoration of communication.
Facets of Transformation: How God Is Working Across Bangladesh
Across Bangladesh, local believers are seeing growing economic stability, physical healing, new leaders, and baptisms as care groups and discipleship communities multiply. These combined stories reveal a widening movement of Christ-centered transformation.
Clearing the Road, Opening Hearts: Pastor Bardhyl’s Work in Kosovo
After flooding blocked a neighborhood road in Kosovo, a locally led committee mobilized the entire community to clear it. Through long-term partnership and humble service, Pastor Bardhyl is helping reshape perceptions of Christianity in a Muslim-majority context.
A Life Transformed Through Faithful Partnership in Albania
Through Compel International’s strategic partnership with a key Albanian ministry, local believers are reaching marginalized Roma communities. Joana’s story reveals how long-term discipleship can transform not only one young woman’s life, but her entire family.
A Quiet Revival Among the Amazigh: Yasmina’s Story of Faith, Perseverance, and Multiplication
Yasmina, an Amazigh woman living in Algeria, is discipling women from Muslim backgrounds through small house gatherings—spaces of trust, healing, and Scripture discovery. Trained through Compel’s regional network of leaders across North Africa and the Middle East, she and her husband are faithfully planting Christ-centered communities even as they walk through a personal family crisis.