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Pastor Akil Pano

Pastor Akil Pano is a public figure and a very well-known pastor in Albania.

He is the founder and the pastor of Gospel of Christ Church in Tirana since 2001.

Pastor Akil is a very well-known speaker in many TV shows and TV programs in Albania.

He is also a lecturer/professor of Philosophy in The State University of Tirana.

Contents
 * 1. Personal life
 * 2. Career
 * 3. Church Plants

1.Personal life
Pastor Akil Pano was born in the city of Tirana in 1974. He was raised in a home with the love of his parents and grandparents. His grandparents shared with him since his yearly years about the love of God. In 1991, he was captured from the love of the Savior and he has been serving Him since. He received the call to preach the Gospel all over Albania and beyond. Pastor Akil is married with his wife Linda and they have 2 children. He completed a Bachelor's degree in History from The State University of Tirana, a Master of science in Philosophy degree from the Faculty of Philosophy The State University of Tirana.

2.Career
Pastor Akil is a well-known preacher and speaker in different conferences inside and outside the country like UK, Germany, Holland, USA, Greece ect. He is the Spiritual Producer in the Albanian language for a daily radio program, ™Through the Bible, a program, started by J. Vernon McGee, that is broadcasted in more than 100 nations around the world. Pastor Akil has served as the General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance in Albania for seven years. He has invested his time with the process of making the Albanian Evangelical churches recognized by the government of Albania as a recognized religious community, a process that was successfully accomplished in November 2010, He has worked hard to help build the unity of the churches in Albania, a desire that has always been in his heart. As a book writer Pastor Akil has published the books “The Mystery of the Crucifixion”; “The Mystery of Man”; “Teach Us to Pray”; “The Two Letters”; Also, he has written many articles with social and Biblical themes which are published in different newspapers and magazines in Albania and beyond.

3.Ministry
His ministry as a church planter and disciple maker began in the year 1993 with the passion of seeing many lives transformed by the Word and the love of God. Since then the Lord has led him to start 8 churches. Two churches were started in the city of Elbasan and the village of Hajdar in the year 1993-1995. In the years 1995-2000 Pastor Akil, his wife Linda together their four months old daughter left the city of Tirana to pioneer a church in Shkodra (one of the biggest cities in north of Albania) where they lived for five years. After they established the church in Shkoder, they came back in their home town Tirana to start a new church plant. In 2001 the Gospel of Christ Church started in Tirana and today this church is one of the largest churches in Albania, a country where around 70 % of the population is Muslim. The church in Tirana has started four churches in the towns near the city. Another church is started in Greece in the city of Katerini with the Albanian speaking people that have moved to live in Greece in the last twenty years.