Saturday, October 17, 2009
Kolozsvár, Transylvania - October 21-22.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Get to know where I live
YTL Symposium
This message is not adequate to describe to you the impact of this week and the YTL symposium. We can’t share with you the dozens of meaningful conversations, the hundreds of invitations we’ve received to go to schools and speak there to students. We have received 215 feedback cards from the educators and 94% of them wants to use YTL and need our help in that!
In the past week with the help of 22 Americans (who came to the Bringing to the Hungarian Harvest Project - BHHP) we had this special “celebration” which led to directly impact over 30,000 students and educators. Just to briefly summarize the impact of these here are some statistics:
-150 students came to the campus outreach and close to 200 students came to the high school outreach and have heard the gospel
-at 8 high school assemblies over 1,500 students were listening to a ,,Why wait?” talk and had been invited to an outreach event.
-our team with the help of our guests spoke at over 50 classrooms in both high schools and campuses and invited hundreds of students to the outreaches
-over 4,000 evangelistic SSK’s had been distributed to freshmen on campus
-shared Christ with over 100 students personally
-280 educators came to the YTL symposium, for 222 of them this was the first YTL symposium. Four of them prayed to receive Christ. These educators will teach YTL to more 25,000 students and they’ll show the Jesus dvd to more than 15,000 students in their classrooms. The new 3rd YTL curriculum and dvd that we’ve produced was a great success!
-at 4 dorm outreaches over 130 students have heard the gospel.
But what best describes the life-changing impact of YTL and really motivates us are the changed lives. Here is just one out of the hundreds: "5 years ago I was at a YTL symposium and it had a great impact on me. I've received Jesus Christ there and since than our lives are continue changing, my life along my family's life. The emphasis in my life had been changed, I don't direct my life any more, but I listen what the Lord of my life, Jesus Christ wants to tell me through the Holy Spirit. It was a great spiritual adventure - in a positive way - to get to know this way and leave the old lifestyle. I needed great courage to believe that God loves unconditionally, forgave me and I can trust in Him; I can rely my family's life and my friend's life on Him with hope and faith. Thanks God and for you for this great miracle." - these sentences were written by an educator who came to the 15th anniversary celebration YTL symposium and gives a great example of the impact of YTL in the lives of the educators and students.
Your prayers and support were absolutely essential in the past 15 years! God used your partnership to impact over 500,000 students in Hungary and millions around the World through YTL! Thank you!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Please pray for us!
Today we have 22 American men and women arriving from Dallas, Kansas City, Atlanta, Oklahoma City and Memphis to join us for a week of evangelism. We will do the followings:
Monday: personal evangelism, evangelistic events in three dorms.
Tuesday: personal evangelism, evangelistic events in two more dorms (five different dorms altogether on Monday and Tuesday)
Wednesday: Freshmen Survival Kit distribution at one college, English classroom presentations and Universities and high schools, personal evangelism, large outreach at the campus weekly meeting (hoping and praying for 200 to come)
Thursday: More classroom presentations, Freshmen Survival Kit distribution at two more colleges
Friday: more classroom presentations, high school large outreach, Teacher's symposium begins Friday evening
Saturday and Sunday: Teachers symposium, sharing the gospel with more than 300 teachers at our accredited teachers training program!! A celebration Banquet with the american mission team, closing the week!
2. Please pray for our staff team. We already had two injuries, and two other staff are dealing with flu, and one staff will have an operation with hernia right in the middle of BHHP week. We need God's protection over our staff and our families, so that we can carry out God's plan for this week! We have so many opportunities to share the Gospel it fills me with real excitement for this coming week! JOIN US in praying for the team from the States, for our student leaders and for our staff, so that we can reach many. Our faith-goal is to reach 1 300 - 1 500 students with the Gospel on different colleges, and several hundreds of high-school students, and the teachers. We will reach over 2000 Hungarians with the Gospel message in a short week!
What's next?
October 19 - 23: our campus ministry will send a team of 5 staff and 5 students to Romania for a week long mission trip. We will do lots of evangelism and training among the students in Cluj, helping our Crusade ministry there!!
November 6-8: Student Ministry Fall Retreat!