There was a national holiday where the Toalmas towns people gathered for a Hungarian cultural festival. This was a colorful and lively event with dancing, horse drawn carts, wood carving, and Hungarian food!
Hungarian Folk Dance – very colorful and rhythmic
Traditional Hungarian Dress – there were eight layers of material under the dress.
Two Boys dressed in customary clothes: Valentine and Gabor who followed Dan around trying to explain all the cultural events to him but only speaking Hungarian. This was cute but not too helpful
With the beginning of Bible School and ministering we have been very busy! School has been wonderful and challenging. Our three current courses are: Systematic Theology, Bible Study Methods, and Hungarian.
With Dan in the assistant dean of men position (not paid) he is able to minister directly to many students. He was also able to share in the morning chapel with the entire school, our testimony of how God has lead us in ministry. Many people were encouraged, challenged, and blessed by this testimony of God's hand in our life. He had another opportunity to share with just the men at an evening devotion how God calls us to follow the higher standard of His heart!
The opportunities to witness both in Budapest and in a local villages a few times have been very successful. In one week over 20 individuals prayed to trust their lives to Jesus Christ!
It is always frightening, exciting, challenging, and joyful each time we go out to witness.
We often use a sketch board to draw and keep attention while sharing the Gospel, This is Sam Frey a guest professor doing training on the evangelistic sketch board
Trips to Budapest:
Enjoying a langos - a very good hungarian pastry - at a market
Daniel found a Hungarian friend along the Danube in Budapest
Hannah found the car she wants!
We have never ridden a train so much in our lives! These train cars are colorful
We have been able to use our learning Hungarian as an opportunity / excuse to get to know our neighbors better by having them help us learn. This affords us opportunities to live the Gospel daily before them.
Campfire in our backyard
The youth workers training weekend here in Toalmas Hungary was great! Over 100 participants went home better trained, equipped, and encouraged to reach youth for Christ here in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania.
Dan and Natalie had a great time in the Czech Republic where we went with Dave James, the Bible School Director, who shared a seminar on Biblical miracles and spiritual gifts. Those who attended were very eager to hear God's Word shared clearly on this interesting subject.
The Czech landscape is even more reminiscent of our home state Pennsylvania than Hungary.
Daniel and Hannah are doing wonderful both in homeschooling and relating to other young people here in Toalmas.
Hey, let go of my toe! ..... If I do I'll fall out of the tree!
1 comment:
Wow, looks like you guys are doing great! I have to comment on Sam Frey because he used to take us out on open air when I was in Mountainside in Schroon Lake and BOY does he look older! (hehe) But he still wears his hair the same! :) Great pictures of the kids...
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