Above: A few weeks ago we launched three house groups spread out in three towns (Petofibanya, Lorinci and Rozsaszentmarton) that allow church members to be built up through fellowship, study God’s word and pray for one another. Two of the three groups are being lead by men we’ve been mentoring over the past few years in our church plant. I’ve been meeting with Peti (black striped shirt center) every Wednesday and enjoyed seeing him grow in His faith and walk with Jesus Christ. This Thursday house group is a great opportunity for Peti to grow in leadership having opportunity to put into practice what he is learning.



Above: Béla, who walks a few miles to our house Thursday nights, is in his seventies. In last week’s meeting he shared how thankful he was for God bringing healing to his leg that the doctors thought they would have to amputate at the knee. After being released from the hospital, Béla’s bike that he used like a walker to support his recovering leg was stolen. He said, “I ask God to bless that person who stole my bike. After the bike was gone, I really began learning to walk again.”



Above: Zsuzsa who began attuning our church after getting to know us through VBS this past summer. Zsuzsa has taken on the responsibility of caring for two young children as a single grandmother. She shared a story about how these kids love the songs they learned in VBS and in church. On a bus full of people, Zsuzsa said the kids began singing together at the top of their lungs songs to God. Hungarian buses have the same atmosphere as the library of congress…everyone is dead silent. Their singing brought smiles to some of the older women who marveled about what they were singing.

FIRST SNOW

Above: We had a few unexpected inches of snow at the end of October. The kids made the most of it before it melted away just hours later in the day.

Friday volleyball

Above: We continue to meet every friday to play volleyball with the community. This was one of the first places that Timi and Jennifer who were just baptized a few weeks ago began interacting with members of our church. Now Timi and Jennifer have invited many mothers from the community to a Bible Study and a few of them have recently made decisions to put their faith in Jesus! Please pray for all of these mothers who are meeting weekly at Miki and Erika’s house to learn more about Jesus Christ.

New ministry opportunity

Above: A recent holiday gathering in the town of Rozsaszentmarton where we are currently planting a church. This is a very spiritually needy area that needs to hear the Gospel and experience God’s love through Jesus Christ. Over the past few weeks we’ve been advertising our ESL program that we’ll be launching this Monday. It is our hope that this English program helps us to develop many new friendships in the community and allows for opportunity to share the Gospel. We would appreciate your prayers for our first meeting Monday night.

We continue to gain more information as to what opportunities we’ll have in Petofibanya’s public school after the Baptist Church of Hungary committed to taking on the school’s financial responsibility. We have had various meetings with the principal of the school and have been invited to teach various ethics classes, hold an English Club and a Royal Rangers Club for the kids every week. We have also been given permission to use their gym as a meeting place for our church on Sundays! This is great news as we have been steadily growing out of our old meeting place in the local community center. We are currently looking at what would have to be done as far as construction in order to make this move to the school happen.

Radom shots

Above: Kids hanging out just before our worship service on Sunday. Bianka (far right) has been attending over a year without her parents or anyone else coming with her.



Above: “Elso Szeretet” is the name of our church. Translation “First Love”.



Above: Elianna and Kira.



Above: Ziva showing off her white chompers.