Nick Vujicic in Hungary

Between April 18-20 Nick Vujicic, the man without limbs visited Hungary and spoke at 3 different venues 5 different times. It was breathtaking to see the impact as he boldly and clearly shared the gospel in front of thousands of people. He deeply impacted the audience as they saw him being happy, living with hope and sharing them how he has found eternal hope in Jesus Christ after he wanted to commit suicide not seeing any hope and meaning in life without limbs. He shared a very provoking challenge to the 20,000 people in the stadiums: "I thought if I would just have arms and legs than I would be happy. Than I look at you all. You have arms and legs and you are not happy. Arms and legs are not the key to happiness and hope. Jesus is the key to happiness and hope." WOW! Very profound statement from someone without limbs. After his presentations hundreds and hundreds were coming in lines to give him a hug and talk to him. Many were crying as they hugged him. One student shared that he wanted to commit suicide, but now, after hearing Nick, he has new hope in his life. 

In between his presentations Nick and our director, Gabor (Gabor was the interpreter in his talkings)  had some good opportunities to talk and dream about how he could come back and speak to all the students in Hungary. Gabor had a chance to give him our book: The Outrageous Promise -  which gives him a greater insight of what God is doing in and through this little country! The President of our country told Nick that if he comes back to Hungary, he will help him to reach all the students!!! We pray and hope that the near future Nick would be able to come again to Hungary and we could do a major evangelistic effort to reach many more with the message of HOPE that Nick communicates so powerfully. 

This is one of his talking in Debrecen (second biggest city in Hungary).

Student retreat

About 150 student from Hungary, Transylvania and Slovakia spent an awesome weekend together close to Lake Balaton. The speaker, Dan Hayes spoke on the power of prayer and on spiritual awakenings! 

Engagement

Dear Friends,

I'd like to tell you a true story. There was a boy and a girl who met three years ago at a church Alpha course. They were in a different group though. After the course the boy wanted to continue to know God and the Christian faith more and started to go to a Betha course at the girls home group. Unfortunately they didn't meet after the course because the guy went to a pre-confirmation course. After a year, as the girl was preparing her home group again and invited members, she sent out an email to the guy as well. He replied and told the girl that he goes to a different church now, because he moved and that church is closer to his hometown. But he asked her if she wanted to meet, since they had not seen each other for a long time. So after a few days they had lunch together, and a four hour long conversation over their empty plates. The next day the girl went to a conference in Turkey and promised that she would send photos of Ephesus. The guy invited her to his new home dedication party, but she couldn't come. After her trip, the girl forgot to send the photos and the guy forgot to take photos of his party. After a few weeks, the guy emailed her that he was still interested in seeing those photos... and they met two weeks later.

They kept meeting more and more often and love started to develop between the two of them. Week after week they enjoyed each others company more and more and they missed each other when they couldn't meet. They started to see how God puts all circumstances in place and how He helps them get to know each other. Everything in their relationship seemed so natural, there were no questions or doubts. They confessed their feelings to each other and decided to search together for God's will in their lives. From this point, things speeded up - after lot's of praying and asking for the advice of common friends, the guy decided to propose on the girls birthday. He took her to her favorite restaurant and after a delicious dinner he knelt down before her and asked her to be his wife. The girl happily said yes, because she loved the guy and wanted to live her life with him.

I guess that by now you found out that the story was about me. I would like to introduce to you my fiance: Norbert Nyiro. He works as a journalist at a magazine called "Our home". He became a Christian a few years ago at our church, and his relationship with God is an example for me. I'm thankful to God that He led us to each other, to be each other's mates. Our wedding is going to be at the Gazdagret Reformed Church on June 22nd. I attached a picture about us.

I'm also thankful to God for the decision of my leaders at Cru, who allowed me to stay on staff. Normally, husband and wife here serve together, so that they can synchronize their everyday lives better. But since I'm in the background ministry anyway, and my schedule looks more like one at an "ordinary" workplace, I will be able to continue my ministry even if I'm married to someone who is not part of Cru.

Thank you all for standing by me in prayer and thank you for your support!!!

With much love,
Ibi