Emily, on the right from Athens, GA, was with us that morning. Her husband works for the US State Dept here in Budapest. The hurt among some of these kids is so deep. They willingly talked music, friends and movies but when the topic turned to family, several did not even want to talk about their families. You can almost see that truth in how they dressed.
Yesterday I had the chance to speak in some Hungarian high school English classes. English is the universal language of our planet. If you are a native English speaker, then your language skill is in high demand around the world. Most mission agencies realize this and use English as door opener. This is true of our ministry here in Hungary.
I accompanied a few of the members of our Budapest student ministry. Several English teachers in a Hungarian high school turned their class periods over to us. While speaking English we played some simple games and had conversations with students. In turn the students were able to practice English with us.
At the end of each class, we invited the students to come to our ministry’s weekly Friday night meeting as well as to our summer English language evangelistic Speak Out camps. Even though we could not share the gospel in the classrooms, doors were opened and connections were made that very easily lead to telling high school students about Christ. This is one of the primary tools our Hungarian student ministry uses to reach into new high schools.
My morning with our Hungarian ministry serves as a reminder of why EB and I do what we do in the harvest field in this part of the world. As we help our missionaries by assisting them in their funding efforts, our personal impact is multiplied as they in turn can reach out evangelistically to lost students all across Eastern Europe and Russia.
Thank you for investing in our lives so we can invest in others!
Great words to live by!
More Hungarian high school students
Jamie and Emily, on the left, both have husbands who work for the US gov in town but volunteer with our ministry.
Ryan, on the right, is new to our ministry here in Budapest and is a recent grad of Dallas Theological Seminary.
Okay, one last basketball picture. This is Ben jumping higher than I ever thought he could in the championship game of his conference against the team from Salzburg. It is sad to me to think Ben will not wear his high school's jersey again in a basketball game. Watching our kids play basketball is the funnest thing I do as a parent!
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