Spotlight Stories

June 2009:  Spotlight on

Touching Lives Through Sports

 Recently the European Union conducted some research on the increasing rate of crime and violence among youth in the member states. They concluded that much of the problem was boredom from a lack of positive, meaningful activities. The research suggested that sports was one of the best ways to keep kids out of trouble.

A.P. Crouch of the Eastern Hungary Team has been striving to make a difference by providing opportunities for kids with after-school programs as well as coaching a local volleyball team. “Sports is one of the best tools to reach kids,” says Crouch, a certified P.E. teacher and volleyball player. If schools are willing to open their facilities she is willing to be there and have something ready for the youth. A couple of schools have agreed and allowed the use of their gyms.

The schools’ constantly shifting schedules make it difficult to keep consistent. School activities take precedence over the after-school programs so the gym is often reserved for other functions. Sometimes the students are busy with other activities, but Crouch is still willing to be there when she can.

 She is also coaching a local volleyball team. The opportunity arose while talking with one school about an English program. Gary Miller, the EHU team leader, asked about the school’s sports program. The head of the English department said, “We have a volleyball team but no coach.” Miller responded, “We have a coach with no team.” At the school’s invitation, Crouch went to check out the situation at the following week’s practice. She has been the team’s coach from that moment on. It is a great opportunity to build relationships and share the love of Christ by meeting a need for the school and students.

The EHU team’s sports program is still in its early stages. They hope to not only provide opportunities for youth to participate in sports, but also to raise up leaders who will take over and keep the programs going. The goal is that over the next two years they will build on these early starts to develop an ongoing sports ministry not dependent on outside sources or funding.

For more information, visit the Eastern Hungary Team website.

April 2009:  Spotlight on

God is at work in Western Hungary

At one time or the other every missionary wonders to themselves and often to others and eventually to God, “Is my being here really making any difference at all?” It is a very common question when you are working with people of a different culture who have different customs, language and traditions. I know Tena and I have asked it of each other a number of times as we have labored from week to week with very little discernable progress. 

Recently we think we have begun to see some of the budding of possible future fruit. We have a Bible study group that has been meeting in our home for the past couple of years. The numbers have gone up and come down. It would seem that almost every time it looked like we were about to build a core group, the people in the core would move away to find a job. Some moved to other parts of Hungary, but many moved out of the country altogether as they have sought jobs in neighboring Austria, or in England, Scotland or Ireland.

On a Sunday just a few weeks ago we had 21 people who came to our house for worship. Of the 21 we now have a regular core group of about 10 people. These 10 have become very faithful in coming for Bible study every week. In fact, most, if not all, have even invited family or friends to come with them. We have also been seeing that there is still a large number of people who want to learn English with us through the Bible. We have someone call us almost every week that want to join us.

Please pray that we will remain faithful to share the love and message of Jesus Christ, that may Hungarians will join Him in a personal relationship that leads to salvation.

For more information, visit the Western Hungary Team website.

March 2009:  Spotlight on

Like most young adults in today’s world, young Budapesters are faced with a world that is becoming increasingly unstable. In order for students and graduates to secure a decent job, knowing and speaking English is extremely important. Because of this, Team Budapest has been able to find many opportunities to serve the community in our native tongue, to make and build relationships with new Hungarian friends and to demonstrate the love of Christ.

For instance, most of us meet with various individuals for English practice. Not only are we able to help people but we are also making friends…friends who invariably converse with us about our faith. We have also been blessed with opportunities to be in two different schools in our area. Denise serves as the native speaker (the government requires that a bilingual school employ a native speaker) at a local elementary school. Vivian has been able to work with a local high school because of English and, thanks to a volunteer team from North Greenville University, we hope to have an even bigger opportunity to work with the school.

One last thing we are just now doing is a Bible study in simplified English. With a ton of help from a local church, we are offering people the chance to practice their English as well as learn about the basics of our faith in a study called Christianity Explored. We use a version that has a simplified  English text to make discussion and reading easier. We are really praying that God will bring more and more people to us via this study.

Our prayer for the team is that God will continue to provide us opportunities to serve the community with something we take for granted…speaking English. We are also praying that God will put us in deep relationships with the people we are here to serve and that ultimately that they will come to know our Savior.

For more information, visit the Budapest Team's blog.

February 2009:  Spotlight on

Hajduszoboszlo Outreach English Course

The Baptist church in Hajduszoboszlo [HIGH-dew-soh-boh-sloh] wants to help people and share the love of Christ at the same time.  Since Hungary has entered the European Union and because so many Hungarians have family living abroad, the importance of learning English has become greater than ever…and there is no sign of this changing any time soon. New language schools pop up almost daily, but many people cannot afford the high price they charge.  The church requested help from missionaries to fulfill their goal of helping people and sharing Christ by holding English camps. For the past three summers volunteers have come through the IMB at the request of the Eastern Hungary Team to hold one-week camps.

Pastor Tibor Komaromi reported that this has been the church's most effective outreach for forming long term relationships with the unchurched, but he had a vision of taking it even further. He asked the IMB team if they would consider teaching a weekly or biweekly English course. “We are not the church growth department of the Hungarian Baptist Union,” says Gary Miller, the Strategy Coordinator for eastern Hungary. “But there are times when it is strategic for missions to help the local church grow stronger so that there are more workers for the harvest.”

The strategic importance of the city lies not in its size or location, but in its hot water. Hajduszoboszlo is known for its natural hot springs and as a family-friendly vacation spot. This resort town with a population of 30,000 people averages 10,000 visitors a day. In peak season it can run as high as 50,000 visitors a day. One half of all housing is used for tourism. Literally hundreds of thousands of people come from all over Europe to relax in these mineral baths in the middle of the great plains of eastern Hungary. The potential for broad sowing of the Gospel seed to much of central Europe is astounding. 

The English classes have drawn many people to the church, where every other week they receive an English lesson related through a Bible story. The team uses Bible stories as the basis for teaching the English classes because a Christian heritage is a common point between the two cultures, and the Bible contains almost every type of literature. This makes it a great place to find almost any example of grammar usage, plus relay God's message at the same time.

The EHU Team has agreed to continue the course until their summer projects begin in mid-May. Along with the regular classes, the church and the IMB team plan special events where students are given an opportunity to practice what they have learned in a relaxed, fun atmosphere, and where church members can connect on a personal level with the other students.

For more information, visit the Eastern Hungary Team website.

January 2009:  Spotlight on

"Pray that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and will be honored wherever it goes."  II Thessalonians 3:1

This is the prayer request of Paul and Tena Brock and Larry and Melinda Ewing of the Western Hungary Team as they gear up for the spring semester. The fall semester was a wonderful period of sowing and growth. God brought many new students and young adults across their paths. They had come to practice conversational English, also knowing they would be discipled in God's Word at the same time. One professor, who had begun to come regularly, admitted that he had been searching for answers by studying the major religions of the world. He decided it was time to study the Truth, so he began coming every week to the Bible discussion group. There he heard about how Jesus was high and lifted up to be our sin Substitute and Sacrifice. Other new friends that we met while volunteer teams were here in September also came on Tuesdays and to other activities that the teams offered. Through all of these efforts, relationships are being formed and strengthened as a foundation is being laid for the receiving of the Gospel.

The Brocks and Ewings are anticipating a fruitful spring semester, as new people will be joining the team in early January. Among these is a young family; Adam and Jenna Kester and their two small boys will come alongside the Brocks in ministry among those who study English through studying the Bible in Nagykanizsa. Be praying with us that the Kesters will make a smooth transition from their home in Arkansas to Hungary. Pray for them as they settle in and begin Hungarian language study. 

Also joining us in January is Melissa Perry, who will be joining the Ewings' team for four months with a Hands On project. Melissa came as a volunteer in September to help with the fall university reach-out projects. After she returned home she immediately applied to come back so that she could continue sharing her faith. She befriended several girls with whom she has been communicating through email. Pray for Melissa to be able to take the friendships she has formed and help draw these new friends into a personal relationship with Christ. 

The team is also looking forward with great anticipation to the upcoming return of David and Tina Taylor from their stateside assignment. Be praying that Tina and David will be able to get all the needed documents for a quick return to Hungary. One of the students in the city of Keszthely in western Hungary, whom David and Tina had discipled before going stateside, has become a witness to many in her university during the Taylors' absence. 

Our team is greatly anticipating what God has in store for His Kingdom's work during these exciting months ahead.

For more information, visit the Western Hungary Team website.

December 2008:  Spotlight on

As Christians, we hold this time of year to be special: a time to think deeply about what it means that God became a man, a baby in fact, and lived here on Earth. But as we are increasingly aware each Christmas season, the true meaning of the Nativity is always a little more obscured by shopping, traveling, and those endless Christmas specials all relating the "true" meaning of Christmas.

Here in Budapest we fight those same battles, trying to remind others and ourselves what God in human flesh truly means. But in addition to the holiday bustle of shopping and traveling, there is something else that we encounter. You see, in Hungary it is not Santa Claus that brings the children presents on Christmas Eve, but the Baby Jesus--"Jézuska," in Hungarian. For many people we have talked to, Jesus is the baby who brings presents at Christmas; and just like Santa, he is not real. Sure, he existed, just like there was a real St. Nicholas, but he was just a man.  Imagine if someone came to you and told you that the story of Santa Claus is, in fact, true. Would you not think they were nuts? But isn't this so like Satan and his ploys! Outright denial of Jesus is often difficult for people, but distortion of who He is, is much easier.

Pray that at this time of year the true story of Jesus will be made clearer to the people who do not know Him in Hungary...and for that matter, in your hometown as well. Pray that as people are exposed to Nativity scenes and sing carols, that Jesus will be revealed.  The real Jesus. The One who came because human sin had doomed us to eternal death. This is Christmas. That God came to die so that we could live. Pray that this message will be understood by the millions of lost Hungarians who have a distorted knowledge of Jesus, and that in that knowledge, faith will come; and in faith, salvation.

For more information, visit the Budapest Team's blog.

November 2008:  Spotlight on

First Fridays at Five

Students are always looking for something to do, so Holly McMickle of the Eastern Hungary Team began to organize "First Fridays at Five," where she provides a fun activity on the first Friday of every month at five o'clock in the evening. She has held two such events so far, and has plans to continue through the end of the school year.

Each event has its own theme to attract students with different interests. It is a time when students from various countries and backgrounds can share about their families and experiences. The first event was a traditional Hungarian-style bonfire and bacon roast, where Hungarians students could tell about their culture and traditions. Also present were Frisbees, footballs, and a badminton set. This allowed for a full evening of fun and recreation. Most important were the conversations around the fire, where students could relax and talk. The fact that it was a come-and-go type of event allowed many students to stop by for a short time, while others came early and stayed for the entire evening. The conversations went on until after sundown.

The second event was a movie night at the university. Those who attended stayed after the movie finished until the building closed at 10:00, and then several of them went to McDonald's afterward where the conversation continued.

At each event Holly invites everyone to the weekly student Bible study and tells about the next activity. With the addition of Anna Paige (A.P.) Crouch to the student ministry team, the number of opportunities continues to increase. Holly and A.P. are now planning more events and discussing the possibility of having something every week.

Not having a regular meeting place makes planning more difficult. Every month they have to find a suitable meeting place for that event. So far the search for a regular meeting place that fits within the student ministry budget has not yielded anything concrete, but they keep looking. Until they find a permanent resting spot they will continue the mission, and each month print up the posters and fliers announcing the event and location...then faithfully head to campus to hand them out and talk with students.

For more information, visit the Eastern Hungary Team website.

October 2008:  Spotlight on

"The Harvest is great..."

Larry  and Melinda Ewing have enjoyed two groups of volunteers helping them witness this fall on the college campus in Győr, Hungary. They and the volunteers felt like it was "hand-to-hand combat" because there are so many broken lives on the campus--young people who are seeking God but don't know how to reach Him, or they are desperate because of their bondage to sin. 

 It has been amazing to see the "hidden harvest" among the students. Both teams engaged in  conversation using a survey to help them interact with the students. If the students were interested in spiritual things at all, it was very easy for them to open up and have a conversation with the volunteers. Also, many Hungarian students said that they had never actually had a conversation with an American though they had studied English for years. 

One missionary was privileged to lead a young man to Jesus who was sitting on the bench on the campus.  He said he had only heard of Jesus on TV, but had never talked to anyone about Him before except for his twin brother,   who also wants to know more about Him! One volunteer, a young lawyer, led a girl to Christ right in the foyer of the school!  One missionary spoke with a young man who asked if God considered homosexuality a sin. They read some verses together on this issue; he listened humbly and was introduced to forgiveness through Jesus. He shared that he was desperate, even suicidal. They spoke to a Muslim boy and to several others who didn't believe in God or who were steeped in philosophy, but were willing to hear another view.  One student was shaking and spoke about Jesus through gritted teeth, but the look in his eye indicated that he wanted to continue the conversation.  He heard the whole Gospel message and then accepted a Bible. 

 One of the volunteers talked to a girl who told about being abused by a priest; she also received the truth that day.  A young professor that the team met last year told them this year he is ready to come to the  Bible discussion group because he has checked out everything but Christianity--and now we are happy to report that he has attended the past three Tuesdays. A girl who has embraced Buddhism, that a team also met last year, said that she is now ready to join the group on Sunday mornings for house church. Three more students one team invited, engineering majors, attended the discussion group for the first time. 

An added bonus was that members of the team were able to visit two classrooms of another university here in town. They invited both classes to come for a party, and fifteen came. God is indeed at work expanding the borders in Győr, opening up even more avenues by which students can be reached.  Pray with Larry and Melinda that God will put a desire in the hearts of still others to come and see what God's powerful Word is all about.

Lord, who has believed our message? Yet faith comes from listening to this message of good news, the Good News about Christ.  

(Romans 10:16, 17)

For more information, visit the Western Hungary Team website.

September 2008:  Spotlight on

Recently our team was able to prayerwalk part of Budapest with a volunteer team from Arkansas. The area we prayed over is called Békásmegyer and is a neighborhood of apartment buildings constructed by the Communist government in the late 60's and early 70's. The area has more than 50,000 residents in a very small area. The buildings range from three to fourteen story buildings and are crammed together. While there are parks and some green spaces, the residents live their lives on top of each other. Contrasted with the beautiful hills that surround the area, the apartment houses appear gray and dull.

Presently there are only two churches, a small evangelical church of 40 people, and a larger Reformed church of about 150. Our reasons for praying for Békásmegyer are many. First of all we prayed, and are praying for each of the people from this large community to come to know Christ. We also prayed for the two churches to be strengthened in their witness and for Jesus to increase His Church with many new congregations. Obviously, with only two small churches for 50,000 people there is room for more. Finally we are praying for workers. The task is enormous in Budapest, and even in just this one neighborhood. We are praying for God to give us Hungarian brothers and sisters with which to work, as well as for American coworkers.

We are praying that God will do a marvelous thing in Békásmegyer and that we will be blessed to be a part of it. Pray with us for these people.

For more information, visit the Budapest Team's blog.

August 2008:  Spotlight on

Back to the Market

Gary and Carolyn Miller have spent many hours prayerwalking the town of Puspokladany asking God to stir the hearts of the people there. When they began in 2003 they did not know anyone in town and had been told by several sources that there was not an evangelical church. They prayed that God would establish a core group of believers that would grow into a strong, reproducing church.

During the summer of 2005 volunteers came to work with them, providing a free blood pressure booth and prayerwalking the town. In December of 2005 the Millers distributed Bibles in the open market to get God’s word out and to meet people. Then in 2006, volunteers helping with projects discovered that there was a small independent church of about seven believers. Not only that, but other churches were also praying for the town and holding outreach projects. By partnering with believers in the area the Millers have been able to help the existing church as well as plant seeds for future work.

God is answering the prayers of believers by stirring the hearts of the people. A sign of what God is doing can be seen in the number of people that accepted a Bible during a recent Scripture distribution in the open market and beside the tent the church used for its outreach.

Volunteers from the local church and from other towns came and helped to man the table and explain the Scripture distribution to inquirers. They also offered free blood pressure checks and just visited with the people. The Friday market is only open in the mornings. Rain moved in, cutting the time down to just a few hours. Saturday morning the Millers then moved the booth and set it up beside the tent that the church was using for their special meetings. The tent was right in the center of several apartment buildings and beside one of the main sidewalks. This was a great location for engaging people in discussion.

Over the course of two and half days they were able to distribute 244 whole Bibles and 68 New Testaments. “Three hundred and twelve pieces may not sound like a lot in a town of 17,000,“ says Gary. “But we didn’t just hand them out; people had to sign a commitment card promising to read the Bible.“ He adds, “We could have given out more whole Bibles, but we ran out of those designated for that project.“

More than half of the whole Bibles were distributed during the few hours at the open market. This is the same market where in 2005 the team reported the wonderful news that they “gave away many copies of God’s word.“ That was a total of 38 copies over 5 days. “That many copies seemed like a miracle to us, then. Now just two and a half years later, we gave out eight times that many,“ says Gary.

On both occasions the Millers’ friend “Annie“ was the key person who opened the door for success. Both times she shared her rented space and encouraged people to take a Bible or New Testament. She strongly believes in God, and they eagerly await the day she puts her full trust in Jesus Christ.

The Eastern Hungary Team asks that you please continue to pray for the people of Puspokladany, that they will read the Bibles they have received, that they will repent and follow Christ, and that they will share their faith with those around them.

For more information, visit the Eastern Hungary Team website.

July 2008:  Spotlight on

Larry and Melinda Ewing, working in Győr, Hungary,  have recently received an answer to many prayers. One young woman named Emőke taught their 60 hours of language when they came to Hungary in 2003 for two years of ISC service. During that time they shared the Gospel with her but she just wasn’t interested. Since their return to the field in April 2007, Emőke has been working with Larry and Melinda on language three times a week. Sometimes they got together socially. The Ewings and their prayer partners continued to pray for Emőke’s salvation. 

This spring she asked if she could come see an immersion baptism, as Larry was to baptize three students on March 8th. Everything that she saw and heard that day moved her heart. Then at the next language lesson after the baptism she began to open up her life, telling the Ewings how she had sought forgiveness in past years from both the Catholic and Reformed Church. Sometimes she was forgiven and sometime she was not forgiven, depending on who it was she talked with. Larry and Melinda explained to her that she needed to ask Jesus, the Real High Priest, for forgiveness of her sin. She asked if she could come once a week to study the Bible. 

Last Saturday was her fifth time to come, and the chronological Bible study that day was on the Abrahamic Covenant. At the end of the lesson Melinda began going through the bridge witnessing illustration using just Romans 6:23 as the major verse. At the end Emőke said that she also wanted to enter into a covenant relationship with God. Then, at the kitchen table and through tears, she prayed the sweetest prayer asking Jesus to forgive her, as she repented and turned to follow Him. She now has entered into His rest, a rest that she has for so long been searching. 

Larry said, "We are thankful for those who have been praying with us for her salvation, and we wanted to let everyone know that God accomplished that on Saturday as she was 'born again' into His family."  Melinda asks that others join them as they praise the greatness and wisdom of God. Please continue praying that God will strengthen her new relationship with Him in faith, and also that she will make Godly choices for her life. Please pray that she will be bold to share with her children, and that she and the Ewings will be able to continue to meet for discipleship. 

For more information, visit the Western Hungary Team website.

March 2008:  Spotlight on

"I don't know where, I don't know how, I don't know when, but here I am---I want to be baptized."

These were the words expressed earlier by Ari, one of four new believers baptized in a hotel pool in the city center of Győr, Hungary on Saturday afternoon, March 8^th. This was a day of rejoicing over the events God orchestrated during the past several months, using many of His people. Volunteers from Arkansas and even IMB-led Germans had come to Győr in early fall to pass out 2,500 Bibles and to give a witness on the university campus.  From the many contacts made, several have been faithful to a Bible discussion group every Tuesday in the flat of IMB missionaries Larry and Melinda Ewing. The baptism was truly a celebration with 50 attending, including both believers and unbelievers. One of the baptized was Vivienne, an English woman befriended and led to faith in Jesus by Paul and Tena Brock and David and Tina Taylor, who lead a house church in western Hungary. Her baptism was very special to all of us because we were very aware of her fear of water, but in faith she went all the way under and came up rejoicing in her obedience to Jesus’ command to take this public stand.

Andras, a computer science major,  told with a big smile of how he found Jesus as His Lord through the Bible and a witness he received earlier this fall. Six members of his family attended, and his mother spoke of the joy they have seen in Andras since he made this commitment to Jesus.  Rozi, who graduated earlier, boldly gave her testimony before her parents and invited friends. Speaking publicly was a big step for her, but remembering what Jesus had done on her behalf made the ordeal a blessing. One of her friends who attended with her husband, a priest, said to one of the missionaries, “This has been a wonderful service, everyone is so happy and following Jesus is so personal—I want this!”

Ari, an engineering student, before she was baptized said, “You are going to take me all the way under, aren’t you!” When she was told, “Yes,” she said, “I want my baptism to show that I have been totally immersed in Christ!” Her story began at the age of six when her mother was very ill. When she took Ari and went to see the priest, he told her that Jesus would take care of her little girl. Ari looked and saw on the wall a picture of The Last Supper. She thought “the Man in the middle” must be Jesus, the man about whom the priest was speaking. Ari believed that day that Jesus would always be with her. Soon after, Ari’s mother took her own life. When Ari was eight, her father, whom she never knew, also died. All through her childhood and teen years Ari knew Jesus was helping her. At the age of nineteen she decided it was time to learn more about Jesus. After going to four bookstores and not finding a Bible, she prayed that God would help her find one. At the fifth bookstore she found one, but when she tried to read the older Hungarian translation she found it was very difficult to understand. We are honored that God in His grace and mercy allowed our volunteers and us to be the ones to put the new Hungarian translation in her hand and to invite her to a place where she could hear the Scriptures explained. Ari has taken full advantage of that opportunity. She repented and made her commitment to Jesus last December. Her joy, as well as that of Rozi and Andras, in finding the Lord has been an inspiration to us all and a witness to those still considering Jesus.

For more information, visit the Western Hungary Team website.

February 2008:  Spotlight on

One of our team members has been able to form quite a few relationships at her gym. The younger people in Budapest tend to be very health conscious and gyms are a very common thing. Because Denise is American and speaks English she has been able to make friends with several girls who like to meet her for coffee and to practice English. None of the girls she meets with are believers and Denise has been able to share about her life and her relationship with Christ. They all really like Denise and like to meet with her but they find her beliefs puzzling. This is a very common reaction. Most Budapesters are polite and will listen to what you have to say, but their hearts are hardened and they have very little interest in the Gospel. Pray that God will give these girls hearts to understand and ears to hear. Pray that His Spirit will move in their lives and convict them of their sin and their separation from Him. Pray that He will continue to bless Denise with relationships and that she will have more opportunities to tell people about what Christ has done for them.

For more information, contact us at teamBudapest@gmail.com.

January 2008:  Spotlight on

The British are coming, the British are coming...
oops, they are here!

Yes, I know we have all heard this before. This time however it is a little different....

Over the past few years that the Taylors have lived in Hungary they have not heard many English accents, neither while walking through the streets of Győr, where they lived for two years, nor in Keszthely, the city they moved to about 19 months ago. They heard a lot of Germans but not many British. It is amazing how our ears are attracted by what is familiar when we are in foreign lands.

Paul and Tena Brock and David and Tina Taylor, members of the Western Hungary team, have recently met a lot of British people that seem to be arriving in Hungary in groups. Two years ago Paul and Tena met one British woman named Vivienne and a man named Paul that moved here to retire and run a bed-and-breakfast. Last Easter Sunday the Brocks, the Taylors, and Paul and Vivienne spent time worshipping on a local hill called “St. Michael’s Hill.” It was a beautiful day and a wonderful time of worship. Paul and Tena Brock before this had shared the Good News with Vivienne and she became a Christian and is now growing in her faith and in love for Jesus.

Through Vivienne the Taylors found out there is a group of Brits that meet once a month to play games and just chat. Last month Tina and David went to the meeting and discovered that it is a great place to begin and strengthen relationships with these folks. 

This past week Paul and Tena and David and Tina and Vivienne went to another such meeting, and quite a few conversations took place in which they were asked why they are here in Hungary and what they do. The people really want to know more. Another question that was asked quite often was, “Why Hungary? Isn’t it a Christian nation?” One other question posed to Tina and Tena was, “Does your organization send people to England?” The Brocks and the Taylors see this as another door being opened; yes, they are in Hungary, but they can also reach out to those here that speak the same language.

David and Tina both mentioned that the second time they went to this place it seemed lighter, people were more open. Upon pondering this the next day it came to mind that there were five Christians in the group that night -- the light of Christ was brighter and stronger.

It seems that many of these Brits are coming from Spain where the cost of living is extremely high now and violence is also on the increase. The typical 
answer when the couples asked the Brits the question, “Why did you come to Hungary?” was that Hungary is like England was many years ago as far as a peaceful livestyle, the cost of living, and friendly neighbors.

It just goes to show here in this corner of Europe there is a gem, a country called Hungary, that is now seeing an explosion of nationalities coming to its doorstep. Please continue to lift up these people in your prayers--not only Hungarians, but also those that have come from other countries and now call Hungary home.

Pray as Paul and Tena and David and Tina make and build relationships with these British people, that they will share the Good News that saves, and pray that eyes will be opened to the truth. Pray as the Brocks and the Taylors go out to where the people are gathered, that the light of Christ will shine brightly. 

In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  (2 Corinthians 4:4) 

For more information, visit the Western Hungary Team website.