I have thought about
starting a new blog update several times in the past few months, and it just
hasn't happened yet. We were quite busy this semester and the last month
has brought a lot of changes and new things. Christmas break was great in
California with my parents. I was able to get a lot of hours at the
hospital. We spent a week with Jared's parents in Oregon. They will
be moving to Idaho this year after his dad retires. My brother, who has
been doing ministry with us at the college for the last few years, was married
in January to our correspondence registrar, and they have settled into married
life in Budapest.
This
semester I started teaching English lessons to a family of three girls to help
cover our costs and it has been really challenging and fun at the same
time. I picked up another English student along the way and it has been a
new challenge. Native speaking English teachers here are paid more than
most professions, interestingly, and it has been a way for me to make more
connections with the community. I was not able to take a Hungarian course
this semester because there was not a class available when I had the time, but
I am continuing to learn by interacting with the community and my neighbors on
a day to day basis. We have several neighbors in our building that I have
been able to talk to more and more. If you could be praying for our
next-door neighbor Éva and her husband that would mean so much. He had a major
heart attack a few months ago and has been in the ICU on a ventilator. I
was not able to understand some of the details because the conversation was all
in Hungarian, but I know he was in a bad way and has a long way to go to
recover. I have gathered that they are Catholic from our conversations,
and she was very grateful when I mentioned we would be praying for them.
The students
went and came back from their 10-day outreaches. We had teams go to
Spain, Romania, Ukraine, Ireland, and a city here in Hungary close to
Budapest. We have had some really good reports since they have returned,
and are praying that God would continue to use what they were able to see and
do, to impact their hearts and lives.
I am
still heavily involved in the academics of the onsite and offsite
students. I'm grading thirteen offsite classes and three onsite
classes. The last two weeks of school in May, I ran our School of Mission
classes as the regular teacher was speaking in California at a
conference. I hosted the class at our apartment and we usually make it
really relaxed and homey. I bake something and always have coffee and tea
while we talk about what it means to live out the gospel and plant churches in
a culture other than our own. One of our former students who I mentored
for two years came through Budapest to visit, on her way to Russia as a full-time
missionary. It was so refreshing to see her and hear what God has been
doing in heart and pray for her as she is being sent out.
During
the semester, we found out that the school lost its accreditation and the
church can no longer afford to pay for the process to keep it current. We
are working on reacquiring it so that the current students enrolled in this
program can obtain their diplomas. It is very unfortunate that we can no
longer offer this program. It has been a difficult process notifying the
students, and then figuring out where to go from here. We were also able to take some time to stop,
pray, and reassess how God would have us minister to these young people who
want to grow in their knowledge of their creator and learn more about His plans
for their life and their ministry.
Pam Markey will be our new director going
forward with the two-year program and School of Mission. She has been the director of the School of
Mission for over ten years and Jared and I both look forward to supporting her
in this new role
Jared is
busy as usually taking care of all the tech needs of the college and the conference
center in Vajta. He has been busy uninstalling, reinstalling, and
upgrading the phone systems. Immediately
following graduation, he also coordinated moving the office into the church in
order to save on costs.
We are now back to California till August
24th so I can get some more hours in at the hospital, as we still don't have
enough support for us to be in Hungary year-round. We are praying that
maybe the Lord would provide more support or more work for me here to make it possible
for us not to need to leave quite so much. It's all in the Lord's hands.
We are so thankful for all of you who take
the time to pray for us, financially support us, and for all of your
encouraging words. It has been a
difficult semester full of change, but we know where ever we are on this earth
it is not our forever home. Blessings to
you all.
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| Our new director Pamela Markey and her daughter Kristen. |
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| Our dear friends' children who we got to spend the week with. |
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| A dear staffer and friend Nichole. |
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| Nichole's husband Jon baptized their daughter Lila this spring. |
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| Other staffers Annie and Kat, both dear friends. Kat was also my roommate during my first semester. |
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| We gladly received a wonderful visiter, Pati Sheets. |
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| Out missionary leadership class for the spring. |
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| Took a nice hike in the Hungarian hills to celebrate the end of semester. |
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| On our way back to the States for the summer. |
- For a refreshing time in California and Idaho with our family, friends, and supporting church.
- For endurance and favor for Hannah as she picks up full-time hours at the hospital over the summer.
- For more support. We are still about $1000 short each month on the support we need to stay in Hungary. Please contact us if you would like to join us financially in what God is doing through us in Hungary.
- For our neighbor Eva's husband to have a quick recovery from his heart attack.
- For Hannah's language study and deeper relationships with the students and Hungarian nationals.
- For all of the students and staff as we phase out the accredited program and seek the Lord in what He will do as we start afresh this coming semester.
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