Once a month, we travel into the bordering town of Lőrinci to minister to the kids and teens at the orphanage. This is beginning to grow into a church ministry, as teenagers Gabi S. and Zoli usually serve with us. We praise God that Andi and Hugi (from church/ESL program) also decided to join us in this ministry this week. We had so many people serving, that we decided to break up into two teams and travel to two locations. The pictures below are from the house we attended while the other team ministered in another location.



Above: Playing team games at the orphanage. Teenager Zoli (center bottom) was our cornerstone.



Above: Pioneers teammate Heidi and teenager Gabi hold the foundation of their meager attempt to out do our pyramid. Good try!



Above: We first met Elemér (seen with Heidi and Allen) in our puppet and drama ministry in public schools. I can remember how he used to literally hang on to us with an embrace as we had to leave his school. We are thankful for the opportunity to continue building a relationship with him and continue teaching him more about Jesus.



Above: Janka (Hungarian partner in ministry) led game time and also some interesting discussion about personality types. Janka has been pivotal in getting this ministry going and is such a giver of friendship and Christ's love to them. After our time of ice-breakers and discussion, I led a time sharing important truths from God's word.



Above: Ricsi and Norbi. Norbi took some time to come out of his shell and slowly began participating whole-heartedly in games and discussion. As I was teaching 1 John 5:13 from the Bible, I left out some words to have the kids guess. "have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have _________." Norbi was the first one who answered "eternal life!"

Towards the end of the evening, we were invited to have dinner with the kids.



Above: Filling our bellies with specially made Hungarian spread on bread, consisting of cottage cheese, red pepper, and mystery ingredients. It was delicious!

Tomorrow we will meet as a team to discuss our yearly goals and future ministry. Please pray that we would be guided by God and that He would give us wisdom to know His will in the planning and decisions. Tomorrow night, we will begin our sports outreach again with the teens in Petőfibánya. Please pray for that ministry as well. Thanks!

Oh, here is Sharon's baked pumkin and Kira's reaction: