Albania (Erseka)
Camp and Conference Center
Site Master Plan and Conceptual Facility Design
Torchbearers
EMI Project 5402

June 2 - 17, 2006

Project Scope
Torchbearers-Albania needs our assistance with the development of a master plan for a wilderness camping and conference center to be used for sharing the Gospel and training Christian leaders. The 22 acre site is located on the Greek border near the town of Leskovik, 22 miles from the Torchbearer-Albania Center in Erseka.

Albania is the only historically majority-Islamic nation and suffered the most extreme Communism for 40 years. When borders reopened in 1991, early christain workers found only 5 elderly men who continued to meet for prayer. The rest of the church had been destroyed by persecution.

As evangelists and church planters began to share the Gospel, teens were the first to respond. Even today, the church is strikingly young and half of church members are the first in their families to profess faith in Christ. Almost every believer lived through the fall of Communism in 1991, the violent anarchy of 1997, and the Kosovo refugee crisis in 1999.

Albania is the poorest and most isolated country in Europe. It is often referred to the "Africa of Europe" because of underdevelopment, lack of infrastructure, corruption and high unemployment.

Torchbearers is committed to providing wilderness camping, leadership development through survival experiences and evangelical training resources. It remains the only professionally- staffed camping ministry in the nation. eMi is committed to helping them establish a master-plan that will reach into the next generations.

Project Team
Rex Barber - EMI Team Leader, Architect
Gene Dotter - Structural Engineer
Sam Wilson - Architect
Jessie Glecker - EMI intern (LA)
Faith Dunn - EMI intern (Civil)
Steve Chace - Surveyor
Terry Goodman - Surveyor
Pat Krochina - Architect / Planner
Deanna Weber - Landscape Architect
Sally Barber - Volunteer and Rex’s wife

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