First off, I just want to express how thankful I am to all who have been praying for me while I am here in Hungary! It has been such a blessed adventure. It’s been so great to serve the Lord out here!

Now, I want to tell you all about the opportunity I have been presented here in Hungary. Before I was given this opportunity I was really feeling as though my time serving in Hungary was not finished, but the looming fact that I’m graduating Bible College in May really confused me. Then, the interns and pastors told me to apply for the internship here at the school. After a couple weeks of prayer and seeking wise council I knew what decision to make. So now I am making preparations to become an intern here.

What does this mean for me? The internship is a rigorous 13-month program designed to prepare people for ministry and the mission field.
“As with all of our programs, our heart and intention is that men and women would be more thoroughly equipped to reach the lost and teach the found.  This is a crash course into ministry--providing the opportunity of real-life practical experience in serving the Lord Jesus.”
My responsibilities include: Weekly intern studies, lead practical ministry servanthoods, lead as a dorm steward, discipling the female students at the school, and planning and leading students on multiple mission trips throughout Europe.

What do I need? First and foremost, I need multitudes of prayer. This is a really tough and stretching program and I will need to be bathed in prayer by my home church family! Things to pray for are financial provision, wisdom in the logistics of planning mission trips, discernment in discipling the girls, and the perseverance in the ministry God has given me in the village among the gypsies.

Secondly, I am in need of financial provision for the next 13 months.
As most missionaries I am supported completely by God’s provision
through those willing to donate financially.
The program is relatively cheap. These are the costs I need to cover:
-$3,000 = A year’s worth of rent/food (not bad, huh!)
-$1,000 = the cost of 2 ten-day mission trips
-$100 = day to day necessities (Toiletries, train tickets, etc…)

So that is the update! Thanks for reading! 

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!

1 Chronicles 16:24

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sLOVEnia 2013

Slovenia. Wow. What a trip. It was physically exhausting, but spiritually revitalizing. God was so in the trip, even from the beginning. We lost our directions while driving from Hungary to Slovenia and Cody was starting to get worried, but then he noticed that the truck in front of us not only had a Slovenia sticker, but also a Celje license plate (which is the city we were going to). So God sent us a little angel to guide us the way! And God taught us faith such as this many times throughout the trip. So, once we got there we were put right to work on practical things. We spent hours laboring over tiles, and paint, and shelving, and cleaning and all these things I have never done before in my life. It was definitely a new experience. At some points it got so exhausting, but it was so great to see how the work could bless the church and the people serving the church. 
The ministry team there are such a hard workers. The country of Slovenia has about 2,000,000 people and less than 1% of the people in the whole country are true believers. So there is much work to be done in this country. Many people there need to be shown Jesus and the good news of the gospel!
But the biggest encouragement was the handful of youth there that just got saved recently. The church invests so much time in them and loves them and it's so great to see 13/14 year olds want to hang out at church rather than go out drinking on Friday night. And they are such wonderful kids. They are the next generation of pastors, missionaries, etc...
We got to do an all-nighter with them, just playing games, and music, and making smores and it was such a sweet time. And they were all so open to the weird Americans ;)
We also got to go twice to an old folks home and do a bible study. I forget often that those older and closer to the end need Jesus SO MUCH! The people there were so sweet, and one man was such a grandfather to us. I even got to pull out as much German as I could remember from high school in order to communicate with him. It was awesome!!!!!!!!
Then one of the ten days we got to take a trip to the coast and it was a sweet time of sight seeing and going into the Mediterranean.
Seriously though, if anyone out there is praying about mission work, pray about coming to Celje, Slovenia!!!! The harvest is ripe and great, but the laborers are few!!!!!!
And speaking of mission work...I've got the bug, or the call...or whatever you want to name it. I love the blessing we get here to share the gospel to many people and countries. I can't turn back now. Thanks Lord!

I feel like I can't possibly write enough about this trip and so I'm just going to leave this here....
But pray for:
-The youth in Celje
-A revival of belief in Slovenia
-The pastor and his wife in Celje
-Finances for me to stay for an internship in Hungary (Support letter and details coming soon!)

Spring has sprung.

The flowers' scents have been filling my nose and the sun has been kissing my face as Spring begins to be sprung here in Vajta. As I walk outside and breathe in the fresh air I begin to think that it's not fair that I get to live here in Hungary and do what I do. But (as a popular Relient K song we all know says) "the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair." I am so undeserving of this life I've been given in Christ. My weeks are filled with bible classes, fellowship, ministering to some special people in the village, and my weekends are filled with outreach mission trips, volleyball, and laughter. The Lord is gracious.
This Friday is the first day of our ten day mission trips. My team of 6 is going to Celje, Slovenia. We will be pouring out love and time on the teenagers and young adults there, serving at a wedding, evangelizing praying a ton, cleaning the church, and encouraging the church in anyway we can. I'm so excited for this opportunity to share Jesus' light in this dark country :)
English lessons with Noemi are going so great. We really are building up such a friendship. She even dyed parts of my hair pink this week! I love that she is so open and curious about the school here. I just want her to know Jesus!
The coolest thing happened this past weekend. As I was sitting on the lawn, I noticed some Deaf people touring the campus! Turns out, every July there is a Deaf camp that comes here (half American sign and half Hungarian sign). I got so excited that I just went right up to them and asked if I could join them for the couple hours they were there. I missed signing so much! They were so friendly to let me hang out with them and soak in the signs. They even said that if I can extend my plane ticket to leave in July rather than June then  I can help out with the Deaf camp! That would be such an awesome opportunity to use this seemingly random gift of ASL in HUNGARY for unsaved Deaf teens. So neat.
I've been praying about becoming an intern here at the school. The opportunity seems to have been presented to me and my heart is very inclined toward it. I want to be a missionary so bad and why leave a missionary hub right now? I am going to apply this week and see what happens. It would certainly help prepare me for ministry outside of this school (it is a very intensive program). My heart certainly seems to be desiring it. We'll see. I would need to raise at least $5,000 for the whole 13 months...which really isn't much. Where else can you live off of that little amount for over a year?? And the cherry on top is that my mom supports this option...which was completely unexpected! Like I said...we shall see!
Life is good.

It was a wonderful Easter here in Vajta. I am missing my family and church so much during the holidays, however God has been so good to me because He has given me such an amazing family here as well.
We had a really sweet Easter "service" (a.k.a. the remainder of us still here for the weekend gathering in the small Quiet Room and singing praises and reading scripture) and then Arpi and Andi let Suzana and me commandeer their house for the day while they were away. We got to fellowship, cook, watch movies. In the evening the Beller family had us all over for dessert and family games which led to absolute hilarity and uproarious laughter. It was a really nice, relaxing day. I'm so thankful to be in this place. God is marvelous.

Képek! Pictures!

A trip to Budapest

Budapest

My MTP Class

The love of my life!

My favorite Pécs kids.

Prayer while on outreach.

The village kids.

The unrelenting snow!

Alive in the Lord

Life has been crazy lately (in the best possible way).

This past week was Speaker's week here at school, and that is when pastors from all over come to our school to well...speak. We have three, 1.5 hour sessions a day for five days. It's actually pretty intense, but it's amazing. It's especially nice because guests come from so many different countries for this conference. The first night I felt so much joy looking out across the Coffee Shop after the opening session, seeing many different people from many different cultures speaking many different languages. All of us come from very diverse backgrounds, cultures, countries, economies, etc, and yet we all can come together to worship and learn about the same God who did the same things for all of us: dying on the Cross for our salvation.
It's like a little preview of Heaven.

Tuesday was an especially encouraging day. I had a lesson with Noemi that day and before she came over I saw on facebook that it was her birthday! I was surprised she would still want to come over on her birthday, but she did. She suggested we take a walk around the property together so we did our lesson outside and it was really quite lovely. I feel like our friendship is starting to develop and it is really nice. She even asked me what I wanted to do with my life and through that I got to tell her simply about God and how I want to serve Him. After our lesson, I took over to weekly Coffee Time at Andi and Arpi's apartment (I had told Andi beforehand that it was her birthday so she could save her a cookie). And there I introduced Noemi to some Hungarians so she could gain more healthy friendships. Noemi seemed really blessed by the cookie, tea, and conversation...and that's what I had hoped for. Just for her to feel loved<3

Then...At the end of the week I got an apparent open door to maybe move to Monterey Bay, CA by the end of the year to serve in a church plant. I don't really feel like I should disclose all the details at this point because I'm still praying about it and discussing details. But when something is decided I will update everyone after I give the first word to my family and my home church :)

But seriously, life is going so amazingly here. And I don't mean that my mood is constantly UP, but I just know that God is working so much in my life and in the lives of people around me and it is so encouraging. I feel like I'm finally breaking free from past hurts and habits, and starting a new chapter in my life. So thankful!



“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” 
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Pécs [payche, not pex ;) ]

Just had a whirlwind weekend outreach in the city of Pécs. You see, I am in the Missions Training Program at my school and our class has 12 people in it. So we decided to be daring and do a weekend mission trip ALL together. And let me tell you, it was a roller coaster (for me, at least).
I love all my classmates and it was such a blessing to get to know them even more. You can say you really know someone once you have to share a pull out couch bed with them (don't worry, the dudes were in another flat).

Anyway, the weekend started out wildly. As we were travelling there (about a 2 hour drive) we realized about 20 minutes into it that we were headed in the opposite direction. And then one of our cars were about to break down because the engine fluid was out. So we pull off the highway into a seemingly vacant parking lot. Now, in Hungary, there isn't a McDonald's at every pull off, or even another exit for another 50 Km. But God is good and the parking lot we ended up in turned out to be a auto place and there 'just happened' to be an English speaking lady there, and they 'just happened' to give us a big jug full of fluid. So then we go on our merry way and get to the city in perfect time despite the detour (thanks Jesus!). So as soon as we got there we went right in to the mental hospital to do music with them and present the gospel to them in fun ways. They loved it! It was such a blessing. The rest of the weekend was full of taking care of missionary children, English club, church, street evangelism, etc...
It was really great. But it was also stretching because the church there is VERY small. And bringing so many people on a trip to such a small place became quite overwhelming for me. Only some of us could serve at one time, or else we were just in the way. SO that was definitely a challenge for me.
But the missionaries there are great and I can't wait to spend my 30-day with them.
The city is beautiful and international and full of people my age. I can't wait to make a bunch of new friends out of the university students so that I can invite them to the church there and share what God has done for me in my life!

In other news, I chose my ten-day outreach today! I and five others will be going to sLOVEnia!!! It was a hard decision between that and Sopron, Hungary, but I feel very at peace with this decision. Slovenia is one of the most beautiful places (see picture below) in the world, but completely dark spiritually. It's full of sex and deceit. 13 year olds get abortions like it's no big deal. People are left fatherless. It's heartbreaking and I can't wait to minister to the youth there.

These are the things I need prayer in:
Financial Provision for Slovenia ($400)
Boldness to tell the youth of Slovenia of Jesus
Continued prayer for my time with Noemi

THANKS :D