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Hungary 2024 - Day 7

Mar 24 11:05 AM

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On Saturday, we met for breakfast and shared our experiences this week. We then shopped and rested in preparation for our flight home tomorrow. On Saturday evening, Gabi and Mara Madarasz hosted us in their home for a yummy authentic Hungarian meal. We sang and worshipped God together with Jonathan leading us on his guitar, and we prayed and thanked God together with Gabi leading us in group prayer.

Usually, this would be a long goodbye until next year, but Gabi and Mara and their family will be visiting the Bible Chapel in just a few weeks! Everyone can meet Gabi and Mara and hear about their ministry at 9:00am on Sunday, April 7, 2024, at the South Hills campus in one of the Sunday school rooms in the basement on the lowest level. (The Sunday school room is down one escalator, turn left through the double doors, and then it is on the righthand side of the hall.) Come meet Gabi and Mara on April 7, and also pray about serving alongside them when we return to Budapest, Hungary, next year!

Hungary 2024 - Days 4-6

Mar 23 10:57 AM

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On Thursday and Friday, we again taught at high school English classes at two different schools and invited the students to FEK (which is the name for Cru in Hungary) events in Budapest and also to FEK’s summer English camps in Hungary in July this summer. Also, on Thursday, several of us conducted “random” evangelism discussions alongside FEK interpreters with individuals at nearby college campuses, in an effort to build relationships between seekers and local Christian missionaries who can continue evangelism and discipleship.

On Friday night, we attended a FEK (Cru) event in their building in the center of Budapest. These events are for high school students, and there are 5-10 high schools within a ten minute walk of FEK’s central location. The gospel was clearly shared.

For anyone interested in participating in mission trips, this trip to Hungary is an excellent opportunity to evangelize and encourage youth in high school as well as other people that we meet on college campuses or elsewhere during our time in Hungary. We have several high school youth and college-age students here from other U.S. churches who are serving very effectively through their direct gospel message communication now as well as by preparing to continue those relationships over social media by trading contact information on platforms such as Instagram. In addition, there are American adults here who have returned to Budapest as many as twelve times, again maintaining evangelistic relationships with Hungarians over email or other platforms. This is a great experience for multi-cultural relationship-building and evangelism.

Hungary 2024 - Days 1-3

Mar 19 10:46 AM

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Day 1

We left Pittsburgh Saturday afternoon, and we expect to have short layovers in NYC and London and then arrive Budapest Sunday morning.

Thank you to everyone who is supporting and praying for our trip to Hungary, where we will work alongside local Cru missionaries and interpreters to help them teach high school English classes and help them make contacts for evangelism and discipleship in their local groups. We also expect to evangelize on college campuses there in Budapest.

Day 2

On Sunday, we made it safely to our hotel in Budapest, and some of our luggage did not, but we are still smiling and looking forward to serving alongside our Cru missionaries this week!

On Sunday evening, we enjoyed dinner at the hotel with some of the Hungarian missionaries. Three of our five TBC members have attended this trip in prior years, and their reunions were enjoyed by all. Tomorrow, we will receive our orientation training and then we will visit schools and possibly campuses the rest of the week. Thank you to TBC members for your financial and prayer support. Please pray for luggage to arrive ??, good sleep to be experienced tonight ????, and effective relationships to be built throughout the week. ????

Day 3

Last night, we enjoyed our first sleep in Budapest. Today, we awakened to find the rest of our luggage had been delivered overnight to our hotel, a pleasant answer to prayer! We spent the morning and afternoon receiving our training on Hungarian culture and preparing our teaching for the rest of the week. Over the next four days, we will teach English in twenty classes in four different schools and invite the students to a Cru event to be held on Friday night. This evening, we participated together in a prayer walk, petitioning God to bless the people of Budapest and the students we will meet this week with spiritual interest and faith in the Lord Jesus. Thanks for praying with us!

Panama Bible Camp 2024 - Day 4

Jan 22 9:41 AM

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Our experience at Word of Life camp has been so memorable. The WOL team is all in, pouring themselves into the lives of the children. Thursday evening was the campfire - nearly two hundred campers stood in front of the camp fire throwing in small sticks to symbolizing "All that I am, all that I have, and all that I hope to be for Jesus."

On Friday night one of the most popular events of the week took place, Carnival! Eight booths were set up with games and prizes. The children move from booth to booth having a great time. Our team brought the prizes which we collected as donations. The children loved them. As camp came to a close on Saturday we learned 83 children accepted Christ as their Lord and savior and 73 more children rededicated their lives to Him!

Panama Bible Camp 2024 - Day 3

Jan 19 9:19 AM

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Hello, my name is Josiah, I am 14 and visiting Panama to serve here at Word of Life. On the second day of the mission trip, a lot of things happened, to me, to the students, and to the leaders. The day started with French toast for breakfast, soon after we had a missions trip meeting where we heard one of the Panamanian staff’s testimonies: Ishmael. We were very moved by learning how God uses tragedies and turns them into beautiful parts of someone’s story of how they found God. After that we played games and gave some of the consolers a chance to take a break, that’s when I took a 15-minute nap before I helped with the zipline. The zipline was very fun and the kids had a wonderful time; some of the counselors also went down the zipline. Once the last kid went down the zipline it was lunch, where we enjoyed a beef stew with pinto beans and rice with a salad. We finished lunch and headed to the pool, this was an excellent time to connect with some of the children, the pool is where I connected with most of the children outside of my assigned group. We played more group games afterward and then had dinner. We ate pizza, which was delicious as always. Then we watched a wonderful live show performed by the junior counselors, there was singing and dancing and a wonderful message where we learned about how God created all of these wonderful things such as stars. and planets, but the most beautiful thing that God created is a human being saved by Jesus ' blood who died on the cross to save us from our sins. We ended the day with small group devotion and we went to bed.