Author: Erik Tryggestad

By Erik Tryggestad/Vienna.  The Lord’s Supper isn’t just a time of remembrance, says Arshia, age 18, as he delivers a communion devotional for the Danube Church of Christ. It’s also an invitation. “True life begins when we let go of our fear, of our past, and then something new comes,” Arisha says in German as missionary Jake Haskew translates his words into English. It’s not easy to forget past mistakes or “thoughts that won’t go away,” says Arisha, an Iranian Christian who made the dangerous journey from his homeland to Vienna two years ago. But when believers take the bread…