Just wanted to say hello and keep everyone back home updated on our trip. Once again, my team and I want to give thanks to you all for the prayers on safe travels. It has definitely been a busy but wonderful second day here in Hungary. The team has been working very well together and we are having a ton of fun. We went to an Italian and Mexican restaurant today. They were both delicious! The city of Budapest is also beautiful and we are definitely excited to do some more siteseeing! Although English camp has not officially started yet we were able to go check out the KEGy building and get our lesson plans organized for the days to come. The previous years at camp there have been about 40 kids that have signed up; this year we have around 70! Yes, it is a little intimidating but every one of those kids has a purpose for being there. There were supposed to be 40 kids in just Jared, Steve, Violet and my intermediate class. We decided that we had to change some things around. Even with pre-planned lessons for each group and knowing that changing stuff around would be stressful everyone was very flexible and supportive of splitting up and changing groups. For me seeing our team’s attitude towards this was really awesome cause in devos earlier that morning I had read Philippians 2:14, which says, “ Do everything without complaining or arguing.” Seeing our team live that out today and being obedient to God’s Word was really exciting. Finally the most impacting thing today for me was the church service at KEGy. It wasn’t necessarily the message, although Tom preached an amazing sermon on singing and how singing is not just some lead up to a sermon but it is very important for multiple reasons. What really stuck out to me was singing and hearing a sermon in not only English but in Hungarian. It is just so awesome and encouraging seeing that no matter what language we are speaking, we all believe in the one true God and are all worshiping the one and only Lord. It just shows how real God is. Sometimes we live in a little suburban bubble and it was just so amazing to see people who live miles and miles away from us praising the same God and it shows that Jesus and the Holy Spirit can change the lives of anyone if He chooses so. That was very convicting to me today. Well, I don’t want to keep rambling, but I do have some prayer requests for the week especially with the English camps starting tomorrow. I ask that you could pray for our team and just unity within it, also strength because it will be a long and tiring day. I also ask that you pray for us to not boast in ourselves but in the Lord and make it fully known to us that we are serving Him and not ourselves. Finally, I ask for prayer with the Hungarian teens and that they would be open minded, and their hearts would be softened so that we may share the gospel and the love of Jesus Christ to them. Thank you so much for following us and we are looking forward to keeping you a part of this journey even though you are not here in Hungary.
Love, Christina
(P.S. You can see a few pics at twitter.com/tommyo Thanks! ~Tom)
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