For most of his life, Skender was certain of one thing: there was no God.

Now in his mid-seventies, living in Tirana, he looks back on decades shaped by disbelief. He proudly called himself an atheist, holding firmly to his convictions. When his children came to faith in Christ, he didn’t celebrate—he questioned himself.

“Where did I go wrong?” he would think.

He resisted. He argued. He dismissed their beliefs as misguided.

But time has a way of opening unexpected doors.

In retirement, with long and quiet days stretching before him, Skender began listening to Radio 7. At first, it wasn’t out of curiosity or hunger—it was out of determination.

He wanted to prove it wrong.

For more than eight years, he tuned in, listening carefully, analyzing every word, building arguments in his mind to defend what he had always believed. The radio became, in a sense, his debate partner.

But something surprising began to happen.

The more he listened, the harder it became to dismiss what he heard.

In the past two years, one program in particular caught his attention. The teachings he heard didn’t sound like myths or simple stories—they challenged him. They made him think. They spoke with clarity and depth about life, truth, and even the beginnings of the world.

For the first time, his certainty began to soften.

Skender admits, “I find the program very interesting—not like a fairytale for children.”

What began as resistance slowly turned into respect. And then, something even deeper began to grow. He started to see the impact.

Through the messages he heard day after day, Skender noticed something he couldn’t ignore—this wasn’t just talk. It was changing people. It was making people kinder, more patient, more compassionate.

In a society still carrying the wounds of the Atheistic past, where values have been shaken since the fall of communism, this stood out to him.

“Now I like Radio 7 more,” he says, “because I think it makes people nicer.”

These words may seem simple—but they represent a lifetime of walls beginning to come down.

Skender’s journey is not finished. But after decades of rejection, something has shifted. A man who once opposed faith is now listening—really listening.

And that matters. People who may never walk into a church… People who carry deep skepticism… People who have spent a lifetime believing they have all the answers…

They are listening.

And slowly, hearts are changing.

Your generosity keeps that radio signal alive.

It brings truth into homes, into quiet moments, into searching hearts. It reaches across doubt, across generations, across barriers that once seemed impossible.