WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY DISCIPLESHIP STUDY

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Above: Gabor shared about the rich man coming to Jesus seeking to know the way to be saved. Gabor was once again struck by the fact that position, possessions and religious works cannot obtain salvation. It only comes through the gracious gift of Jesus Christ, to those who put their faith in Him as Savior and Lord. It is great to see these important foundational truths sinking deep in church member’s hearts.

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Above: Hugi, Gabor’s wife, (in orange) praying with Heidi and Erika. Hugi shared her thoughts about the recent anniversary of receiving a debilitating sickness. Although this sickness has brought many trials and difficulties into their lives, Hugi praised God for using it to lead them to Petőfibánya and also to salvation just over a year ago. She said, “If I never became sick and we never were forced to move out of Budapest to Petőfibánya, we would most likely still be lost right now without the Lord.” Because of Hugi’s debilitating sickness, she is ‘retired’ and has time to serve (with a joyful heart) with us in various outreaches like our puppet ministry. Praise God for his work in Hugi and Gábor’s lives.

THURSDAY ENGLISH CLUB

After an extended break, we restarted our English Club that meets in our home every Thursday.

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Above: We were thankful for Sanyi (red sweater) respond to our invitation. Although Sanyi came to our english classes in the local community center last year, he did not attend our club, until today.

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Above: We had fun discussing what possessions we thought were important to have if stranded on an island. At break time we distributed a survey where students could anonymously indicate if they would be interested in coming on a separate day to an English Bible study. We praise God that three out of four (that are not part of our church) in our morning class and the majority of our evening class indicated they were interested. This is a great opportunity to study the Bible together with those who have little or no religious background. It has been our prayer (before we started the club) that the Lord would bring those into our midst whom He has already been drawing to Himself through His Holy Spirit.

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Above: Klári (who attends our morning English Club) trusted us enough to drop off her daughter Janka (far left) for our evening class. Janka also brought her friend Emese. Because of their young age, we had to give them the bad news that they could not attend our class without a parent. We offered them alternative get togethers, like our Friday teen outreach. They had a great time and I’m thankful for God allowing us to develop more relationships with those from the surrounding villages through this ministry.

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Above: Smiling Dávid who attends our club and friday night teen outreach first met us through our VBS. We are thankful for being able to follow up with him throughout the year.

FRIDAY TEEN OUTREACH

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Above: Heidi with Niki who regularly attends our church. In our devotional time we were able to split up into two smaller groups of boys and girls which allowed for more freedom to openly share (atleast in the girls group). Unfortunately, we had a few teens that laughed all the way through and deliberately mocked others with laughter when they began sharing more seriously. These teens have grown up with no boundaries and have no sense of what it means to respect others. We will have to pray for wisdom and for their hearts as we continue to seek ways to make God’s truth known to them.

SUNDAY

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Above: Teammate Brenda helping to train Hugi and Lidia to take lead roles in singing in our worship team. In our long term work of church planting, we seek to gradually and wisely turn over various ministries to those God has raised up locally in the church. It is never our desire to ‘be up front’ and perceived as the only equipped members since we are missionaries. God has been gracious to protect this fledgling body from that perception as more and more members taking baby steps into various ministries in the church.

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Above: Hungarian Partners in our church planting ministry, Dezső and Miki. We are thankful for these faithful men who give their all for Jesus and have a passion to see Him glorified.

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Above: Witnessing the marriage union of Érzsi and Béla before our Lord. Before coming to know Jesus, Érzsi had been living with Béla for over 15 years and they have a son Dávid. After being saved, she made the decision to “remain where she was called” (1 Cor 7:24) and to be obedient in officially declaring her covenant of marriage to Béla (who is not a believer). Please pray for God to draw Béla to Himself through Érzsi and through our church.

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Above: Watch out, the kids are storming the cake table! Peti, who preached tonight on foundational truths of marriage did a great job highlighting the husbands need to love as Christ loved the church and the woman’s need to respect her husband. God was gracious in bringing back Hugi’s mom for the second week in a row, Kati (teenager Niki’s mom) also attended service tonight. We hope that those in our midst like Hugi’s mother, Niki, Kati and Béla would come to fully understand God’s love for them and turn to Jesus for salvation. We have an exciting year ahead of us!

Ways you can pray:

• Lidia (in the worship team picture further above) had some type of medical problem today after worship practice. Please pray for complete healing.
• Teenagers Gabi and Zoli (both Christians) to make God honoring decisions in their lives. Pray for wisdom and for protection from the enemy for these potential future leaders.
• Crazy cough. Otherwise known as chronic cough (but I like crazy cough instead). Kira has had trouble sleeping for the past 4 weeks because of a cough that continues to linger. Please pray for complete healing (for Ellie as well).
• Wisdom as our team continues to plan for next steps in this new year.
• The salvation of our English students, teens and visitors of our church (Klári, Tünde, Edina, Sanyi, Dávid, Vali, Hugi’s mother Érzsi, Kati, Viki, Evi, Ádám and Béla)

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Above: Our little Ellie.
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