Speak Out 2011

"SpeakOut 2011" ended with great blessings and success beyond our hope. Numbers are very inadequate way to summarize the camp, but represents at least some of the impact of the camp.

• We sent teams to 4 cities in 3 countries.
• Over 360 non-Christian campers came to spend 3 x 1 week with us.
• Our student volunteers approached over 2,700 students at those cities and offered the opportunity to discuss about Christ.
• Over 1,600 students have heard a personal gospel presentation from one of our student volunteer or staff.
• 97 students indicated a decision. We never saw such openness and results!

We had so many programs for the campers, morning class, SpeakOut groups, sport afternoon, staff hunt, American culture night, Hungarian evening, etc. But we wanted to put this camp together mainly because we wanted to share the gospel with them. Each camper had different opportunity to hear the gospel in different ways throughout the week. While the Americans spent time with the Hungarian campers in the afternoons we Hungarian staffs and students went to the beach and shared the gospel with students there.

Statistics

There are only two types of people in the world: those who like statistics and those who don’t. If you belong to the second category, this post is probably not for you…

However, if you like statistics, here’s what we gathered during this last schoolyear:

Number of students personally approached by staff with the gospel: 4572 (only one-on-one, personal conversations)

Approached by staff by week: 10.34 (as stated above, this is only one-on-one approaches, and also, if I took my disciple with me and he shared the gospel, that does not count here.)

Evangelistic discussions: 2802 (it means that we can have a spiritual conversation with more than half of the students that we approach)

Student evangelistic descussions: 2952 (So our students shared the gospel with more people personally than we as staff did. This is a good sign in a movement, because it means that more and more is done by “the followers” and not the leaders.)

Decisions with staff: 48 (1.7% of the conversations) – This means that altough Hungarian students love to talk about spiritual things, it is extremely hard for them to make a decision to follow Christ.

Decisions with students: 78 (2.6% of the conversations) – This shows that our students – who live among other students – can be better testimonies to their non-Christian friends and classmates. Statistically speaking, 52% better…

Gospel shared at evangelistic events: 1924 (this many students heard the Good News at a talk or other event from us)

Decisions at event: 48 (2,5%) (it might show that events are more effective, but at the same time it is easier just to put an X on a response card than to commit your life when someone personally knows about your journey – but this is just my opinion:)

Entering follow-up: 136 (this many new believers started to meet with us to hear about the basics of walking with God like prayer, Bible study or going to church)

Received gospel literature: 6996 (this many students recieved the gospel in a written form from us)

Other evangelistic impact: 13492 (for example people reading the gospel on our website)

Total evangelistic impact of CCC Hungary this school-year: 45989

Prayer requests

By the time you read this, SpeakOut has already started. We have a record number of campers, more than 350 students signed up for the three weeks! Keep praying for the campers:

· that they would get on well with their tutors, that they would have a great time together

· the relationships between campers and Hungarian staffs: good Speak Out Groups, where campers can get to know the Hungarians as well, and that these would lead to great conversations

· that good relationships would form that God can use in the future

· that we would see the opportunities to serve towards the campers, and we would be available to them

We continue preparations for BHHP and the FÉK Teacher Symposium in October. We expect about 30 participants from the U.S.A. during this evangelistic week. Please pray that all can raise the necessary funds for their trip to Hungary! Every year there are a growing number of Hungarian students whose lives are changed through this event.

The annual FÉK symposium at the first of October is likely to attract about 300 teachers, many of them non-believers. Teachers’ budgets are leaner than in any previous years. Our organization subsidizes the cost of this. We need lots of prayers there as well, that the financials work out well.

Happy Easter!

"Be not afraid. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen!" Mark 16:6

Wipo: Easter Sequence

Christians, to the Paschal Victim offer sacrifice and praise.

The sheep are ransomed by the Lamb;

And Christ, the undefiled,

Hath sinners to his Father reconciled.

Death with life contended: combat strangely ended!

Life’s own Champion, slain, yet lives to reign.

Tell us, Mary: say what thou didst see upon the way.

The tomb the living did enclose;

I saw Christ’s glory as he rose!

The angels there attesting;

Shroud with grave-clothes resting.

Christ, my hope, has risen: he goes before you into Galilee.

That Christ is truly risen from the dead we know.

Victorious king, thy mercy show!

During the Easter Sunday liturgy, after the Second Reading and before the Gospel Acclamation, the Easter Sequence is read or sung. This liturgical poem, composed especially for the feast of Easter, was written by Wipo of Burgundy, a priest and chaplain to the Holy Roman Emperor, Konrad II. Wipo died about 1050 AD. One thousand years later, at the beginning of the third millennium, this beautiful poem, written at the beginning of the second millennium, can still resonate in our hearts. This sequence, Victimae Paschali (Paschal Victim) can be prayed during the Easter season.

My trip in the USA

Thank you very much for your help to stay with you, to organize a party, to have a breakfast, lunch or dinner with you. I don't have enough words to appriciate everything that I got from you during my trip. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU!

I hope you enjoy my photos. Unfortunately, I am not the best photographer. I put my camera to my handbag and when I left our appointment, I realized I forgot to take a photo :(

A special weekly meeting

Two days ago we had a full house at our weekly meeting. 210 students showed interest in coming to an event where we had two speakers. One: a media star, the other a baptist pastor. One: a non believer, the other a believer. They are good friends. How? The pastor leads the Baptrist Charity Organization in Hungary. The media star writes book son disaster areas of the world. So they traveled a lot together.

Two days ago they agreed to come and share their stories. Both from the world and from their personal lives. So the Gospel was presented in a unique way! The students loved it! So did I!

I love the many different ways there are out there to present the one message Jesus has entrusted to us!

And now: we will follow up all those students who are interested to meet with us becuae of this fun, unique, meaningful event!!

Purple Day

When you take blue and red, what do you get? Purple! That is why we chose the name “Purple Day” for our “Girl-Guy” day – a whole day where we teach Biblical principles about relationships between the sexes. For many students, this is the first time in their lives to hear what God has to say on these topics.

Our staff could spend a very blessed day with our student on the “Purple Day” where we had more than a hundred students. Many-many students were interested in many seminars e.g. “Friendship between guys and girls – is it possible?”, Respect Between Men & Women, What Youʼre Communicating, The Heart Of A Godly Woman, Win with your eyes, mind and heart!, Danger of pornography.
It was a really blessed!