Speak Out 2007 Fruits

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This week Speak out finished. Many of are students have so many stories of personal change, and stories of lives given over to God through Christ.

Let me share some of the results/fruits of our time here! Let this be a testimony of God's faithfulness and may it bring glory to God!

- We had 237 campers at our camp!
- Other than these campers we have approached another 1100 young people on the beaches of Lake Balaton.
- So together with the campers we have approached and initiated with almost 1350 people!

- Out of the people we have approached on the beaches 589 people have heard the Gospel through a personal conversation!

- 26 people on the beaches trusted Christ plus 28 campers made decisions to trust Jesus as their Lord and Saviour!
- Altogether 54 people indicated a life saving decision.

And way more people indicated a further interest in learning more about God. We are planning to follow up many of these contacts!

PRAISE GOD!!!!!
Thank you for participating in Speak Out 2007 through your prayers and financial support!

My vacation

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I spent my vacation with my church in a small town in Northern Hungary. In the mornings we read together a book by Henri Nouwen that’s title is With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life. Nouwen uses the Emmaus road passage (Luke 24:13-35) as the backdrop for his words. We tried to understand the Eucharist (Lord Supper) in a deeper way. There are five themes in the book that lead us to Eucharist: Loss, Presence, Invitation, Communion, Mission, leading the reader to find a "network of connections" between the celebration of the Eucharist and daily human experience.

We also could relax in the afternoons. We went to have a trip, to swim, to play. So I enjoyed that week with my friends from my church.

A story from Speak Out

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Gabor, our national director told us this story from our English Camp:

Last Thursday afternoon 18 years old David (one student leader of our ministry) and I went out sharing to the beach. We met with Dani, a 16 years old student. We've asked him to help us fill out a questionnaire that we use in YTL as an introduction to a discussion about the gospel. He was happy to answer those questions. The last question we ask is this: "Would you be interested to know God personally?" He said he would. So, we've started to talk through the gospel. We had a long conversation. Finally I told him that he can start a relationship with God if he express his desire to God, ask forgiveness for his sin and ask Jesus to become his Savior and Lord. I asked him what hinders him to make this decision. Dani said that he doesn't know if he can accept Jesus as his Lord. We started to discuss about that how he can trust in God, because how much He loves him, how much He sacrificed for him. "Would a loving God who sacrificed His own Son want something bad for you?" - I've asked Dani. He said No. "So, can you trust in Jesus as your Lord, too?" - "Yes" - he replied. So, we've prayed together and he accepted Jesus as his personal Savior and Lord at the beach. Now we follow him up. Pray for Dani that the Lord would still work in his heart.

Speak Out English Camp in Keszthely

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In 3 weeks we had 237 students coming to Speak Out camp each spending a week here. These are non-Christian high-school and campus students who have heard about the camp through YTL. Yesterday the final week of the camp started and we have 90+ students which is a large crowd to work with individually. The American volunteers who are with us are great help in this. We saw many of the Hungarian students make decisions for Christ. Pray for this final week of the camp. Hundreds have heard the gospel through personal conversations and at the large events we had so far, but we still have a very important week ahead of us with multiple and great opportunities to present the gospel. The awesome thing at this camp is that we are able to share the gospel by modeling the Christian life to these students since we basically live together with them, beside of sharing the gospel to them multiple times verbally. These kids are very much opened!

Another segment of the camp is that we have the student leadership of our ministry here and we go out sharing Christ to non-campers in the city. 4 times a week we spend the whole afternoon just going out sharing Christ in the city.