I keep being humbled every year when I think of the fact that it is part of my job description to PRAY! I know that many of you have to “steal” moments from your work or family to spend time with the Lord. So thank you for making it possible for missionaries like us to have prayer – as a part of our job:)
Starting yesterday our staff has gathered for four days of prayer. Yesterday morning we were praying for the new believers in our movement. 52 students who made their decision recently or have been baby Christians for years. We prayed for them:
We started January with Bible School. Every staff member have to develop their knowledge of theology. In this year our lessons was introduction of New Testament. We talked about historical questions dealing with authorship, date, sources, purpose, destination, etc., in all books of the New Testament. It was so interesting. I enjoy to know more about God's Word. I hope I can use it in my personal bible study.
On December 6th we had a special celebration that we had invited everybody who was and is on staff with us in Hungary and are friends of this ministry and happens to live in Hungary. We celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the first missionary crossing the Iron Curtain and move to Hungary and start Campus Crusade here. God blessed beyond imagination that risky and heroic act. God deserves to be celebrated for the thousand of miracles He did during this 30 years both under communism and after the fall of Iron Curtain! People prayed for 70 years for communism fall and so we can’t forget to remember back for the miracles of what has happened! You can see more pictures in our website http://www.timoteus.hu/30/filmek/filmek.html Videos are usually without speaking.
Every staff member in the Campus Crusade spend a day with prayer in every half year all over the world. We praised God with singing, studied Bible and we prayed for personal prayer requests and our ministry events in Hungary, Eastern Europe and in the world.
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence
All staffs in CCC in Hungary
I am the member of Strategic Recourse Team. We work together day by day.
I celebrate my 10th year anniversary as a staff in CCC.
Last week we had our annual staff conference. Each year we spend together 5 days with the staff who are serving in
This annual conference strengthens our community, our mutual understanding of our calling and is a great opportunity to prepare for the coming ministry year. We feel so privileged to work together with these missionaries. These staff gave their life for the call of evangelism and discipleship and all of them made significant sacrifices to stay in the ministry. God blessed us with a great team of people.
One of the best parts in the conference was the praise and worship. When one thousand staff member sang together there is power in it. We praise God different languages. We came from 18 countries. I will upload a song in Russian next week, because my internet connection not the best at home. When I was a student in elementary school I studied Russian under communism. I remembered the Russian alphabet and some word :)A chaplain told this story of two little boys who lived in a small town in the United States. The town’s economy heavily depended on the river, which ran through the town, so the people kept dumping the sand out of the river and piling it up on the banks. As they scooped the sand making huge heaps of it, children liked playing on them, which was extremely dangerous since pockets of air were formed inside these sand piles.
One day two young boys decided to play in the sand and as they climbed on top they both fell into this vacuum and sank in the sand. Since they didn’t go home and nobody knew where they had been, their parents called the police and the town’s people immediately organized a search party to find them. When they got to the sand heaps, they found the younger boy sunk in the sand up to his neck. They ran up to him and asked: ’Where is your brother?’ The little boy answered in tears: ’I’m standing on his shoulders.’ As his older brother was drowned in the sand, he saved the younger one’s life. The same way we are standing on Jesus’ shoulders as he laid down His life for us.
