Sunday, November 11, 2007

Vajta, Hungary




Dear all

Grace and peace to you! ( studying Apostle Paul’s life and his letters suggested this greeting that really makes more sense than Hi, how are you!:) As many of you know we have a 10 day outreach every semester. Students from CCBCE went to Spain, Italy, Croatia, Check Republic, New Zealand and many other countries as well as to different cities here in Hungary. God led me to stay here in Vajta, a little town or rather a village where our college is situated. I did not regret a second that I obeyed God although I did hesitate for a while and saw the fruit of obedience on the very next day.

Those 10 day days was abusy and a truly blessed time and we saw God's goodness every day! I was blessed both with the team and the local people we met. God provided a wonderful evangelistic opportunity – a bus that could serve as a little cafe - we parked it in the center of Vajta and invited people in for tea and coffee with sweets. The bus came from Finland for a project Operation Mobilization is doing in Hungary but thanks to some "connections' of our team member we were able to use it here in Vajta. We showed Christian movies there every night and shared Jesus' love with people that came. For about 6 years that the college is here local people have had prejudice about it and were afraid to get closer to the students and staff. Of course there are a few people working for college and they know that it is not some "weird place filled with crazy smiling people" but the rest of the village has always been suspicious. Some pastor’s wives have been reaching out to the community continually but nevertheless there was a huge wall between "us" and "them" which, we hope ,was destryed last week.

On the last day of the outreach week 130 people from the village came for dinner that we prepared for them and watched a drama "Prodigal son". Many of the people stayed for the Passion of Christ movie that was shown later. Praise the Lord! It is not that there were no attempts to minister to the community but this week I believe the hearts were softened and prepared for what was done. Everybody is talking about it here both in college and in town and even when the students just pass by the houses, people get out to say "jo napot" ( good day). God is good and He has his timing. We continue to pray for the freedom in the village and for us, Bible college students and staff to be worthy of our loving and caring Father.