Greetings from Albania

Merry Christmas!

Over the last 12 weeks, my days have been filled with lectures, specialized training, intercessory prayer, worship, walking closely with God, and growing within a vibrant community. Through these moments and sessions, God has been powerfully working in my life and heart.

The first thing God has changed in my life is my understanding of friendship with Him. Jesus desperately desires to spend time with me, because He is so madly in love with me. I don’t need to come up with a perfect life or have a perfect devotional time planned. Jesus just wants to be with me, because I am His son. The love of God is a never-ending story, where God loves me again and again. God wants to be a part of my everyday life, where He gets to encounter me and take me through the journey of life. I do not need to worry about tomorrow. He will get me where I need to go because He is more committed to me than I am to Him. God is just that good. He just asks me to be with Him. My greatest calling in life is just to love Him and be with Him. To stare at Him staring back at me.

This lesson really sank in during our long weekend in November. My friend and I wanted a getaway but lacked funds and a destination. We prayed for guidance and felt led to Geneva. With cheap flights booked but no plans or accommodations, we continued praying. The night before departure, a man from our base in London approached me offering to pay for our stay and invited us to join him and his daughter in Chamonix, France. After praying, we felt God’s “Go!” In Chamonix, the man covered everything — lodging, food, and even warm clothing — fulfilling my dream of hiking in the Alps. It was a powerful real life of God’s love and provision, showing me how deeply He cares and delights in blessing me. God is just that good. That is who He is.

The second major work God has been doing in my life during this season is deeper healing and freedom for my soul. Upon joining YWAM in September, my confidence was bruised, I felt so imprisoned by the legalism and sin issues in my life, and my dreams were in pieces … but God is bigger. In His gracious loving kindness. He met me where I was and drew me to Him so that He could begin the difficult work of untangling the mess in my heart. In many ways, I felt like Eustace Scrubb, in “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (Book 5 in the Chronicles of Narnia). In the middle of the book, he is transformed into a dragon, a physical manifestation of his inner faults. His needs and desperation led him to Aslan, who restored Eustace to human form through a painful but redemptive process of peeling away his dragon skin. God had to take me to a place of discomfort and total reliance upon, so that He could bring the deep inner healing I needed. God wanted to restore my confidence and my identity, as His image bearer to the nations, he wanted to set me free from the prison I had locked myself in (due to my legalism and sins), and He wanted to restore my dreams and hopes.

This leads me to the final major work that God has been doing in my life, He has begun to reshape and renew old dreams. When I was 13 years old, I had a stirring in my heart to be a part of a global ministry that brought revival to the nations. Then later when I was 18 years old God began to give me a heart for many nations. Unfortunately, due to trials, wounds, and struggles in life, many dreams like those two above began to flicker out in my heart. It has only been recently that I have begun to sense God reignite these dreams and ideas in my heart. As I have prayed, I am beginning to sense a leading me to potentially stay in Europe and help pioneer an evangelism team that reaches the entire continent of Europe, maybe eventually beyond. God has also been placing people in my life to affirm this call. I have had a handful of people approach me with words over my life and ministry opportunities to step into this calling. One of which may be going to Ukraine this Spring to bring aid and the Gospel. Another would be to join Neighbours and Nations (an evangelism and revival team) here in London for the fall of 2025 to train in evangelism and mobilization, so that come 2026, with the help of the team in London, we would begin to mobilize a team in mainland Europe.

The last 12 weeks have been such an incredible journey, and God has been so good and faithful. I cannot wait to see what He will do in the next 12 weeks. I am now sitting in my living room in Vlorë, Albania preparing for our second week of ministry. We arrived last Monday after 15 hours of travel, and so far, we have been working with university students and children. We had the opportunity to share the Gospel with many of the people we have encountered, and I have been able to personally share my testimony and journey with God with a few young men. The biggest highlight so far has been having the opportunity to give Christmas shoeboxes to two different groups of children. My family and I had the opportunity to participate in donating numerous shoeboxes over the years, but I had only ever dreamed of being able to be on the other end. God has again made my dreams come true, and it has been such an incredible gift to bring so much joy to the young kids we have been working with. We will be in Vlorë for another two weeks before we move to the capital, Tiranë, for the next 10 weeks of ministry.

Please continue to pray for me and my team. Pray that God will fill us with joy, peace, and faith so that the power of the Holy Spirit may abound in us. So, that we may walk powerfully in gifts and may boldly proclaim the gospel to all we encounter. Lastly, pray that our team may be rooted and grounded in the love of God, united as one, in one accord with Jesus.

Grace and Peace,

Cameron Lofthouse