The church body has 73 baptized members and two congregations in Tirana and Durrës. The average weekly attendance at worship services is 98. Agron Mece and Mikel Bishka served the church body as national evangelists since 2009, when the last WELS missionary returned to the United States. Work continued under overseeing and advising of WELS's local regional mission counselor. Mece and Bishka graduated as Bachelors of Divinity from St. Sophia Ukrainian Lutheran Theological Seminary in Ternopil, Ukraine, and they became the first national pastors. WELS does not have resident missionaries in its sister church, but it continues in providing encouragement and help in theological education and some financial support.[2][1][3]
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^ ab. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
^"Albania". Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
^. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. 26 August 2013. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
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