Robert and Jenny Wheelis
We started serving in Albania in 2006, doing youth ministry, church planting in a coffee shop, discipleship, and leadership training for Albanian public school teachers. In our 17 years we have seen God move in so many ways but none more powerful than seeing Albanians thrive in ministry and reach their own culture for Jesus. Ministries we started in Albania are now continuing under the leadership of Albanian believers! Our desire has always been to work ourselves out of a job and go where God leads to his next work.
And God has decided to expand our territory.
In 2023, we launched a new ministry to come alongside church planters across the globe to see the Kingdom spread in hard-to-reach places. We actively train and coach church-planters to thrive and be sustainable over the long haul. We facilitate results-based learning that helps leaders self-diagnose challenges unique to their cultures and leads to implementing new strategies and creating safe spaces for leaders and teams to grow, multiply, collaborate, and be inspired to "finish the race". This initiative is called Forest Planting Global, using a modern day parable of planting and expanding the forest just like the Church plants and expands the Kingdom of God.