Dear Family and Friends,
Thank you for your prayers and financial support!
September has come to a close and with it cooler temperatures. There have been several new and exciting developments for the Budapest City Team this past month:
- We’ve settled on someone to take my place in the realm of day-to-day Ministry Center maintenance and operations.
- We have an offer to use more space in our building for the cost of utilities.
- We have a fall English camp being organized by Hungarian youth in our church.
Tamás (Thomas) Lajos will replace me taking care of the day-to-day maintenance and operations of the Ministry Center. Some of you know him as Orsi’s husband. We’ve started his on-the-job training, and I think he’ll do an excellent job. He doesn’t shy away from the nasty jobs and he speaks better Hungarian than I do. He is an answer to our prayers.
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| First night of the Alpha Course |
On another front, space is once again at a premium in the Ministry Center. We were praying for use of more space. Since I knew there were 2,800 square feet on our ground floor that is presently unoccupied, I decided to write to the owner asking him if some mutually-beneficial arrangement could be made for us to use that space. It has been empty for several months since they finished our subway station.
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| youth packed in |
The timing of our inquiry was providential as the owner was prepared to favorably accommodate us. He will let us use the space if we’ll just pay the taxes and utilities for it. He said we can do anything we want to it to make the space work for us. His only desire is that we allow some space for his offices should he need them perhaps five or six years from now. (Because the subway isn’t planned to open before Spring 2014, his use of the space has been postponed). Our field ministry fund will need $1,500 a month to secure this space until it can be gainfully shared with our ministry partners. We request your prayer and financial consideration of this advantage to the work here.
By popular demand and with Hungarian youth
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| youth overflow |
taking the lead, we will hold our first ever Fall Teen English camp. A teaching team of six is coming from The Orchard Evangelical Free Church during the fall break from classes from October 29 through November 2. Please pray for these evangelistic efforts and good follow-up with our church youth.
Kari and I will be joining others in India the first week of October to explore partnerships in church planting. Pray for us that we might know God’s kind determinations for His work there and our involvement in it.
With much love,
Brad, for Kari.
