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YTL in 2008 from Gabor Gresz on Vimeo.

A video from our student retreat - Csilleberc

First snow

Here is the first snow in Hungary. It is snowing all day. When I came out from the office I had to clean my car because it was covered with 2-3 cm snow :) Unfortunately, it starts to melt :(

Csillebérc, November 7-9, 2008

While I was in Romania our campus ministry organized a retreat in a former communist camp. We had a great weekend together with 120 students who are involved in our ministry. Every year we have two retreats, that last for a weekend, for high school and university students. Many of them became Christians in the last few months or year. These days were a good opportunities to build our friendship with them.
Our main speaker was an old friend of mine from Albania: Bill Babione (who is American) and he was talking about "To be a leader". But one of the best part of this weekend was to listen many of the students sharing their testimonies.

Barbi’s story was one of the couple we’ve listened to. Barbi is a university student and she grew up in a non-Christian background. No-one in her close and extended family is a believer. She grew up not even hearing about God. When she went to university she met with Petra who is one of the volunteer leader in YTL. They were preparing together to run a marathon and going to the Iron Man competition. During this time Petra shared Christ with Barbi and she accepted Christ 6 moths ago. Petra started to disciple her and now Barbi is sharing her faith and stood up in front of 120 students and boldly shared how God has changed her life.

Audit Training in Bucharest, Romania

I had an opportunity to participate an audit training in November 2-12. Our leader, Helena in Campus Crusade for Christ taught us to check books of other countries. Four of us, Yuri from Moldova, Bela from Albania, Emil from Bulgaria and me were in Bucharest. We worked hard and studied a lot. Every morning we listened lectures and every afternoon we practiced what we learnt, and check the Romanian books.
It was a privilege to do this audit training. Hopefully I can go to do audit twice a year. I am very grateful to God that allowed to be there. It helps to me to know other countries, people and how they work in the accounting department. I hope I can use this knowledge in the Hungarian ministry.

Kolozsvár, Transylvania

It was a very good trip. On Tuesday after we arrived we went to invite students with fliers to an evangelical event on Wednesday. At the evening we called students for appointments. We had their name and phone number from Survival Kits distribution. Almost everybody wanted to meet with us. They are very open and religious. It was easy to talk about gospel. On Wednesday evening the students were coming and coming to our lecture. We didn't have enough seats, students sat in the floor and stood in the corridor, too. It was incredible! We just stood and praised God! Comments of students were very positive in the respond cards. God blessed our trip. Thanks for HIM and for your prayer!