Magyar Mullets January 2012 Newsletter
Dear Friends and Family,
We write this month’s
newsletter with great joy. We are glad
to be in service to our Lord here in Hungary.
We praise God that we are in good health, we are fully supported, and we
feel God’s hand on us in our lives and labor.
God has given us entry into more lives through four different English
outreach groups we’re leading. The Alpha
course starts up again in February, and on top of that we’ve had several sunny
days this winter. While it seems the
favorable exchange rate was short-lived, we are grateful for co-laborers who
can come when needed.
The Orchard EFC sent
11 members on a work team to labor during a lull in the ministry activities in
the building. They had four and half work days in which to make a mess and clean it
up again. We appropriated a space under
the coffee house floor for the use of our ever-expanding youth groups. They worked through connections with a
Hungarian company to cut a beautiful hole through the floor for the
stairs. They built twelve insulated walls
between pillars, rerouted 50’ of sewer pipe, replaced an archaic electrical
panel in our office upstairs, put in walls and doors for a new meeting room and
did whatever I asked of them— including tasting stomach strengthener and eating
pork fat on bread with raw onion. My
number one concern, in memory of Géza bácsi, is always balancing the health and
strength of the labor force God entrusts to me with an appropriate amount of
culture acquisition. It’s a delicate
balance.
One of the greatest
contributions they made to our ministry was in the example they set in
obedience. Their obedience to come
during cold, overcast January, not exactly the high season, to labor in a
cellar, for ministries that will take place long after they are gone, was a
noteworthy sacrifice. They even took
time out to share personally with some of my English discussion group members
who mistakenly showed up a week early for class. Their labor gained a hearing
for me to share the gospel with Hungarians who are invariably bewildered by the
presence of tourists wearing dust masks and wielding hammer drills and
grinders. They were a huge encouragement
to me personally and to the continuing work in which we’re involved. 
Many of you have
probably followed the media about Hungary in recent months. I was recently
encouraged to read among several other things in their new constitution the
following sentences:
·
We recognize the role of Christianity in
preserving nationhood.
·
We have an abiding need for spiritual and
intellectual renewal.
Pray for Hungary.
Praise be to God,
Brad and Kari
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