Magyar Mullets July 2012 Newsletter

Dear Family and Friends,

   Thank you for your prayers and financial support.  We enjoyed another full month of ministry including a two week teen English camp.  The Orchard EFC in Chicago fielded the teaching team again this year and we supplied helpers and translators.  We had over 70 teens in attendance which is more than ever before.  I anticipate the testimonies from Hungarian teens in years to come to include statements like: “I heard the gospel and believed at English camp one year at the Kelenfold Evangelical Church.” We are grateful to God for American and Hungarian co-laborers from local churches for these intensive events. We enjoyed several evening meals in Hungarian homes getting to know the families of our campers. 

Whenever we focus on introducing others to Jesus Christ, we expect trials and tests to come.  We were not disappointed. The team’s determination to share the gospel was met with illness, theft and loss, deaths in families, and other potential distractions.  God’s Spirit was faithful to sustain them through many such things that threatened to derail them. Thank you for praying for us all.

   It was great to have our team mate Robin Kohl, from Crystal Lake, IL, here helping the entire time with teaching and serving.  Kari was an amazing camp administrator. Tomi and Orsi handled registrations, translations, and communications. Attila kept the accounting side of things straight, so my job as camp director was a piece of cake.  There were just over 200 participants between the two camps over four weeks.  We had 39 guest nights in our house.  A couple of guys even showed up at camp one day from Oklahoma.  At first I thought they were homeless guys who snuck in for chapel time, but turned out they are pastors who were compelled to visit Budapest and pray for the work here.  They prayed in Vienna and Prague as well and then spent their last night in Hungary at our house. It amazes me how quickly and easily we connect and relate with others who belong to Jesus Christ and are called according to his purposes.  I believe the LORD will cross our paths again.     

 

I’m learning to quantify the Lord’s blessings in our lives in new terms:

·         number of trips to the airport,

·         number of conversations with workers at hotels and restaurants,

·         number of times I stop to explain our activities to people from the community around the ministry center,

·         number of rolls of toilet paper and paper towels replaced and the speed at which supplies disappear,

·         number of times we clean up and set up for the next ministry. 

This month I was blessed to preach twice, help officiate a wedding, and start construction on an office for the denomination secretary. We are blessed with work. Please pray for more laborers in this harvest field.  

Thank you for your partnership with us in the gospel,

Brad and Kari