Full time

I almost said "full steam"... Because this is how we may characterize our ministry during these days.
Last weekend I was in Ukraine, together with Sándor S. Kelemen (pastor in Bistrita). We preached in Uzhgorod on Saturday afternoon, in an upper room of the Baptist Church. Several Hungarians gathered for the meeting:

On the way to Ukraine we took Johanna to Budapest, because she went to Kenya and Tanzania for a mission trip! As I hear, this became a real experience for her...
On Sunday we had the ordination of two Deacons in the mixed Church of Beregovo, Tony and Vadim. The church was full: For the Hungarian brother three Hungarians prayed laying hand on him (the third one is Imre Kőrösi László, a missionary in Mukachevo): I preached the closing sermon, with translation into Ukrainean: The presindent of the Baptist Association in Transcarpathia (the "first pastor" as they call him), Ivan Ivanovich Kondor was also there: We visited the fortress in Munkács, which is an important historical site for the Hungarians:
Today we had our "Work Congress" here, in Pericei. About 240 delegates and guests were present. We had a good fellowship and several hard questions were discussed.
For tomorrow we expect 35 young people from the Hungarian Brethren Church of Cluj. We consider this as a good way to nurture our brotherly love to each other.
Next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we will have a Conference for Families here, when Viorel Iuga, the pastor from Speranta Baptist Church, Arad, will be here. Viorel was my class mate in the Seminary, sitting four years at the same table...
Monday we will continue our music study with the children...
Please, pray for blessings from above!

My many children - Sok gyermekeink

I collected the pictures of the children, who are attending my music classes on Monday and Tuesday. Several are still missing, but what I could gather I show here to see their faces. Thank you for your prayers!

Összegyűjtöttem a gyermekek képeit, akik járnak a kottaiskolába Hétfőn és Kedden. Némelyek még hiányoznak, de akiket összerakhattam azokat ide teszem, hogy láthatssátok őket. Imáitokat köszönöm!

Ukrajnaban - In Ukraine

Egy nehany napot Karpataljan leszek ezen a hetvegen, Kelemen S. Sandorral, besztercei lelkipasztorral. Meglatogatunk egy-ket gyulekezetet, (ma Ungvaron leszunk), es vasarnap reszt veszunk a ket diakonus avatasan a beregszaszi gyulekezetben. Remelhetoleg vasarnap estere meg idejeben hazaerunk, hogy szavazatunkkal hozzajaruljunk a roman parlamenti valasztasokhoz... Koszonjuk, ha imaitokban tamogattok!

A couple of days I will be in Ukraine this weekend, together with S. Sandor Kelemen, pastor from Bistrita. We will visit several churches (tonight we will be in Uzhgorod) and then participate at the ordination of two deacons in Beregovo Baptist Church, Sunday morning. In the evening we hope to be back home, in time, to add our vote in the Romanian parliamentary elections... We value your prayers!

Teaching the children

Each Monday and Tuesday four groups are coming to our music lessons. There are more than 90 children and young people in these four classes.

This week the children from the Kindergarden also visited us: they came to the church on Tuesday, about 150 children, and I explained the characteristics of our faith, and church.

Please, pray for these children! (Later I will put here some of the faces.)

I visited these weeks some families also, with heartbreaking stories. Please, pray for our families and their children!

Tomorrow three members will be examined and hopefully received into the membership of the church: one, who moved there through her marriage, one who asks to be received into the membership coming from another evangelical church, and one who was disciplined a couple of years ago, because of his marriage. Now, the marriage is over, they are divorced, and the hears are also broken... We hope, the church will see the signs of real repentance after these sad happenings, and we may have a positive decision. They were already examined by the deacons and elders, and they are going to tell the story of their conversion to the church, tomorrow. Please, pray for these issues!

Earlier I showed here some faces, but now I took them off. Later you may see them all, in one of the following posts. Please pray for our children!

Még mindig: Kárpátaljai Ifjúsági Énekkar

Szép élményben volt részünk a múlt héten. 34 fiatal látogatott hozzánk a kárpátaljai gyülekezetek részéről, akik az összevont ifjúsági énekkart képviselték, és gyönyörűen énekeltek a szilágysági gyülekezetekben. Összesen nyolc vendégszolgálatuk volt négy nap alatt.

Ezalatt a perecseni családok látták őket vendégül, és esténként egy-két gyülekezetben szolgáltunk a környéken (Goroszló + Balla, Kémer + Perecsen, Nagyfalu, Zilah + Perecsen + Kraszna). Az igeszolgálatokat a beregszászi lelkipásztor, Nehra Bálint végezte. Mindenütt nagyon szépen szolgáltak. Énekeikből egy CD-t is készítettünk...

Közlök egy-két képet a különböző gyülekezetekben történt szolgálatjaikról:
Goroszló: Szilágyballa: Szilágyperecsen: Persze, szombaton alkalmat kerítettünk egy barátságos mérkőzésre is a szilágyperecseni sportcsarnokban... Nos, a vendégek győztek... :( De a fiaink azt mondják, hogy nem a múltra kell nézni, hanem előre!