Speak Out summary

We had a great 4 weeks long camp with American tutors, Hungarian volunteers and Hungarian non-Christian students. The Americans served toward non-Christian campers, the Hungarian Christian volunteers did beach and street evangelism. We had 45 Americans and 50 Hungarians in the project and 291 campers in three weeks.

In the camp were many activities like American Culture Night, Sports Day, Staff hunt. We had a gospel night where we shared the gospel in Hungarian. In conversations, morning classes and personal group time the American students could share the gospel and their own testimony. The Hungarian students did surveys on the streets of Keszthely and at the beach. Through the last 3 question of the survey we had many conversations, and we could share our faith easily. I am very glad for this project.

The project in numbers:

We approached 1750 people, 926 of them heard the whole gospel and were challenged for decision. 49 of them received Christ.

Two great stories that happened with our staff members (they share them with their own words):

1. It is happened with Virag, a high school ministry staff .

“As I walked back to the camp in Keszthely, I needed to cross a road. Until I waited for a car passing I began to talk to a lady who stood next to me. Very soon she was talking about God and the New Testament. I was surprised and asked her if she was Christian. It turned out that she reads her Bible at home. We had a great conversation and at the end Eva (her name) invited me to her home (since she lives here at Keszthely). I visited her with one of our student staff, Kinga, and what we heard was a real surprise.

She was a member of the Communist Party, and after communism fell she began to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. On a train trip someone told her to read the Bible in order to understand the truth. She has been reading her Bible now for 16 years and understood that God created the Universe, and mankind is sinful. She knows a lot about Jesus, but the picture is still not completely clear about the way of Salvation. We had such an awesome conversation. Eva learned Bible verses by heart (like John 3:16), was talking about how important to share about God with others, read the Bible regularly etc.

Can you imagine? She was never heard any teachings about Christian life! What she understood is from the Bible, from God’s living Word.

She is so teachable. Just as thirsty people want to drink, she was thirsty to hear about the Truth. Her situation reminded me when Philip met the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:30-31).

Eva wants to understand what she is reading. As we explained the Gospel, she was listening and asking questions. We visited her with Csaba again and gave her follow-up materials. We will keep in touch with Eva and help her to understand more clearly what it means to walk in faith with the Lord.

You need to know that she is a 70 year old widow lady. She kept telling us all the time: Nothing happens by chance. Yes, God has a perfect plan and He knows the next step.”

2. It is happened with Edina, our National Director’s wife.

“Every Tuesday night the Hungarian and American Christian students (who are serving at the camp) gather for worship. This is totally voluntary for anyone who wants to come. The non-Christian students hear the music and the singing and sometimes they look into the room or come in and listen to worship. Tonight a girl was sitting next to Edina at this worship night. They started to talk and it turned out that she is a campus student who came to Speak Out the first time and she really didn't know why she came until today, because this morning she prayed to receive Christ. She is a brand new Christian and at night she came to the worship time to sing praise to God! An 8 hours old Christian girl came to her very first worship time in her life!!! She's never been at such event before. What a great blessing that one her first experience as a Christian is worshiping God together with students from different cultures (America, Hungary, Moldova, Germany). Her name is Hajni, please pray for her spiritual growth as one of our staff starts following her up.”

Speak Out 2008 video

Speak Out finished. Please watch this video about the camp.

Speak Out 2008

Our summer English Camp, Speak Out starts this week. We are looking forward working together with more than 40 Americans and over 40 Hungarian students to evangelize hundreds of Hungarian students. We hope about 300 Hungarian students will come to the camp. Please pray for them. Most of them are not Christians and we would like to share our faith with them. Check our web site about this: http://www.speakout.hu/staff/Speak_Out.html Next year maybe you could be part of it. If you have any question, please let us know.

I am at home

One week ago I arrived home. The view of Budapest was beautiful from the air. My suitcases also arrived :) I was very thankful for God because I had a very easy trip, I could reach all of my flights. Next day I drove to visit my family. The weekend that I spent with them was very good. I could show them my pictures of my trip.
I would like to share some pictures with you. I hope you will enjoy it.

My trip in US

Tomorrow I will travel back to Hungary. It was a good trip for me. I could meet most of you and I could know lots of new friends. I really appreciate all of your helps that you could give me. God was again incredible. He gave me a heavenly trust in His care. I haven't known yet the fund that I raised will be enough or not, but I know my Heavenly Father will take care of me. He called me to the Campus Crusade to be a financial manager. So, trust in the Lord in every circumstances.
Every month I download a wallpaper to my computer from crosscards.com. In June I read the next by Charles Spurgeon: If we cannot believe God when circumstances appear against us, we do not believe Him at all. I pray this attitude will be ours, too.
Thank you so much for your friendship and partnership!!!!!

My trip to US

I will visit my friends and supporters in Jackson between May 9th and 16th and Atlanta between May 16th and June 18th. The purpose of this trip is to find new people and invite them to be part of my ministry and to visit my old friends, too. I look forward to seeing God’s provision because I have some needs to be met. I feel like I have less and less time and money as time goes by but I believe that God wants me her and that He will give me everything that I need in order to be here. Thank you that God can show His provision through you, too! I am so thankful for that!

Kata on the left side

Kata received Christ after she had read a book that title is More than a carpenter by Josh McDowell a month ago. One of our staff member introduced her to me. We are doing together the follow-up conversations. Next Saturday we will meet again. She joined a youth group in a good baptist church in Budapest. Please pray for her. She is thinking to come to our Speak Out English camp. I am hoping her relationship with God is getting stronger in this summer.