Magyar Mullets October 2007 Newsletter

Dear Family and Friends,
Thank you for praying for us—we know God hears and answers. October came and went in a flash; for a couple cold days we thought December had arrived. We don’t see too many leaves change colors, but some of the brightest red ones are on the fence in front of the house. It makes me miss sugar maples in Missouri this time of year.

The boys had their last soccer game of the season. Basketball season starts in a week. Both of them are involved in a mid-week Bible study and Peter is still a faithful member of the worship team. I think Jacob grew six inches over the summer and is increasingly difficult to keep fed. The past couple weekends we’ve worked together to paint, fix, and customize things around home. It feels good to get the house in order.

I’ve been over to Géza’s house several times to install handicap fixtures for his wife. She had to have her leg amputated this past summer and came home from the rehab hospital last week. I helped him enlarge the door to the shower (shown here unfinished), for her wheelchair. The State is subsidizing the purchase of an electric wheel chair and the church has collected an offering to pay their part. A bunch of guys from the church will get together and build a ramp and deck on the front of their house for wheel chair access.
Kari is up to her eyeballs in financial book work from the ministry center renovation and programs this past summer and fall. Kevin and Cheryl Hill (volunteers from Vancouver http://www.thehills2007.blogspot.com/ ) have been God-sends to help us out with everything the past few months. They are inquiring of the Lord concerning a long term commitment to missions work in Europe. Another couple, Roger and Sally Eales, came out of retirement for 90 days to direct our English Outreach ministry while our Canadian colleagues are on home assignment. God so faithfully provides laborers for His harvest field. Thank you for praying and sending them.

Wonderful events: A couple of the elders in our church announced with their small group that they intend to meet one Sunday a month in South Pest in hopes that a new church will be planted in their neighborhood.

Kari and I have also started meeting with a small group on Friday nights. We’re praying this will become a core group for a church plant in another part of the city. Our association board met in the city of Veszprém this past month at a new Christian school one of our churches founded. It was a great encouragement to see the ministry this church has undertaken with help from the other Hungarian Evangelical Churches.
§ Please pray for our teammates: Humphrys and Lemmons who are/ will be in intensive language classes this fall.
§ Mark your calendars for the Hungary Summit which will be held in Budapest this year March 6-8, 2008—this event will afford our supporters and supporting churches an on-site look at our ministries—more information to come.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Brad, for all of us