A Certain Woman in Eastern Europe

ICF-International Christian Fellowship-Szeged Friday at 7 - Our first wedding!! The groom Zoltan and the bride Anita with Mary Jill who performed the wedding. You may now kiss your bride!! The wedding cake Anita, Zoli and baby Denes get ready to cut the cake The wedding party: Eszter(Pepus), Gabi, Arden and Zoli (Dubi) Time to go home. Zoltan, Anita, Tamas and baby Denes Zoltan and Anita were married by the local government authorities on February 28, 2004 but the Lord began working in their hearts and they decided they wanted to be married before God (the Higher authority!) Anita and Zoli have a special relationship with Arden and with ICF as both their boys were healed as an answer to prayers: Tamas in the womb when Arden's bible study prayed for Anita, and ICF when baby Denes was prayed for and healed of floppy baby syndrome earlier this year. When Zoli and Anita considered where to marry they realized who their church family was and came to ICF. Over 50 people came to cel...

A traditional Thanksgiving dinner with our American friends Mike & Nancy and their wonderful Hungarian neighbors. The meal even included cranberry sauce from USA But we are in Hungary so Nacy wisely served the seasonings in a traditionally Hungarian manner. Did you have paprika with your turkey? Trust you were as blessed as we were. Nancy wrote out the story of the first Thanksgiving in Hungarian and shared it with us. Everyone was impressed with her language skills (and Mike's reading skills) and we were able to share our tradition about this family celebration and being grateful to God for His care and provision. Thanks Nancy and Mike for a lovely evening and sweet fellowship

May your Thanksgiving be blessed with a table overflowing, the family gathered round, the house full of sounds of joy and laughter and a heart grateful for the bounty of the Lord. May you know His peace and fullness of joy during this wonderful time of celebration. I joined Face Book recently and a friend sent a "note" that I should list 25 specific things I wanted to do in the future. I really took some time to think about it and the list is pretty interesting and as yet unpublished. But as I thought more about it I realized that the Lord has blessed me already with a very full and interesting life. In fact many of the things I've done are on other people's list! I began to thank Him for all the wonderful places he has taken me to, all the great adventures He's given me and I was overcome with thankfulness for all the incredibly, wonderful people He has faithfully placed in my life no matter where I lived and I thought...... specifically of you!! Thank you for b...

Some of you might recall last summer when I went to The Call-Nashville and I met up with a wonderful gang of people from the Quad Cities. My friend Luana from Iowa is a spokesperson for "Operation Outcry" and she will be sharing her story of abortion on television tomorrow night. Please tune in if you can and hear these important truths. Here is the e-mail I received from Luana. "There is going to be a documentary on channel 378 (RBN) called " Beyond the Dark Valley ". It is on tomorrow, Tuesday Nov.25th at 6:00 pm central time. It is a documentary on Abortion staring Josh Davis the Olympic gold metalist. I was part of the taping as well. I am telling my story of how abortion hurt me.Please consider watching it and let me know what you think." Thanks,Luana

Dear Mary Jill,I have an unusual exhortation today: Turn on your TV! Tomorrow and Tuesday next, DirecTV subscribers will have the opportunity to see the first national airing of Beyond the Dark Valley.The Justice Foundation produced Beyond the Dark Valley this past summer. This captivating special features three stories of women and men who have been devastated by abortion and their journey to find hope and healing. It also discusses the scientific and medical evidence and consequences of abortion. The program serves to educate viewers that abortion hurts women, men, and families. Beyond the Dark Valley guides the hurting to repentance and healing found through Biblically-based abortion recovery programs. Finally, the show reaches out to those in unplanned pregnancies to let them know that there are crisis pregnancy centers available to help. You can watch this powerful program on the National Religious Broadcasting Channel on DirecTV, Channel 378. Beyond the Dark Valley wil...

On Monday Edith and I left Szeged and drove to our friends at Keleti Europa Misszio Alapitvany where we had a great visit and also picked up paperwork for my visa renewal. From there we ran a few errands in Budapest and then headed north about 55 km to visit my country house and friends in Diosjeno. We left there about 8 and arrived safely to Debrecen at 11pm - 3 days and 754 km later but what a great weekend. In Diosjeno, Eva shared with us her latest joy and blessing. The month before she and Sandor had attended a series of meetings with a Catholic priest who was teaching on the Holy Spirit. There were about 40 others who attended. She was so excited as she had received her "angyal nyelv" (angel tongue) and could really tell a difference in prayer!! Thank you, Lord! What a great turn out this was as three small villages came together. God is moving! She also had a new creative idea to make Christmas ornaments from corn husks and silk. She has been selling them to a firm in ...

I was blessed to be asked to speak at the New Covenant Church. Here is some of their leadership team. All are first or second year medical students. In 2 weeks they will come to ICF and do some special music for us and we will bring a couple of our medical students from Debrecen to meet them. Their acappela worship was so anointed!

What a joy for all of to be together this past weekend!! We have had students from more than 10 countries come to ICF. Here is some of the leadership team.

International Christian Fellowship is also sometimes International Couple Finders :-) Congratulations to Erik and Sara!! who became engaged this summer when back home in Sweden and will marry in Stockholm August 15.

Our second year of the Fellowship is going so well. The whole team was able to meet this weekend (Fri eve and Saturday afternoon) and Jim and Tanya taught on hearing from God and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. We realized that 2 sessions were not enough and so the leadership team will continue teaching about the Holy Spirit for the rest of this year.

My dad, Capt. Edward J. "Bits" Callery and a belated Happy Veterans Day! My mom was an Army nurse and they met when he was hospitalized. They would have been married 62 yr last spring. Me at a much younger age The family celebrating mom's 70th birthday (seventeen years ago!) All of these photos possible because of a scanner! This is all new to me Ha! While I was away my techno-able roomie Edith learned the ins and outs of my printer/scanner combo. She learned just what you needed to do to get a good result on your photos. Just in time because I'm motivated to save all the old black & whites that mom has saved. I want to do a digital project with all the old photos so this was my chance to practice. Enjoy!!

It's 1992 and Michael and Raelene have driven me to the airport to say goodbye as I move to Scotland on my first mission assignment. 1993 and Michael and Raelene get married. Here Michael and I are dancing to "Through the Years" by Kenny Rogers. Great pick, Michael. 1996 the first of my "grand prizes" comes along. Bryce at about 8 months Gotta love that scanner!!

Here is the sun setting at about 4 pm and while still light the moon appeared!

I added a couple of new "gadgets" and I got thinking rather than a quote a day I'd like a scripture a day so I tried googling ......this is what I found. Enjoy... http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=a1b8badf688bb8be59f9 I loved that it is Scottish!

I'm trying out this blog "face" and added a few gadgets - do you like it? I joined Face Book - see link under Certain Friends - Please leave a note on my Face book wall if you would like to join. It really is a fun way to stay in touch. I also am unpacked, clothes washed, bills about to be paid, attended 2 prayer meetings, made dinner, skype chatted and I have only been home 24 hours! With God all things are possible!

Remember when I had M&M's on the grocery list? Well, as I went out the door to buy them, mom says "Don't get peanut butter". What now, flavors? and sure enough - peanut butter M&M's!! What a surprise! I was careful to get the chocolate package. In Hungary, you have 2 choices of M&M's. There is the 4 oz yellow package of plain or the yellow 4 oz package with peanuts. Another surprise came when my brother said I got the wrong kind. Didn't know that he prefers dark chocolate M&M's!! Actually, didn't know they made them, so for fun I checked the web site. Be vigilant if you are a visitor to the US for here are your choices: Milk chocolate plain Milk chocolate with peanuts Dark chocolate plain Dark chocolate with peanuts Peanut Butter Premium M&M's: Chocolate almonds Mocha Triple Chocolate Raspberry Almond and Mint Chocolate and of course minis, baking bits, ice cream and customized - you pick the color and have them monogramed!...

RT Kendall and Bob Sorge's great teachings from this conference now available Log on to http://www.gracefellowship.org/ and check the podcasts. Alan Ross's teaching from Oct 19 is available,too. Blessings

Check this YouTube link for a wonderful video in memory of the River Church. The sign now outside the pile of debris says "The River Church - to be continued..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7mV6Zr2ADI

Nov 4, 2008 at 11pm EST the announcement that Barack Obama will be the 44th President (elect) of America

We have reports from two local polling places here in Johnstown that voter turn out is heavy. Polls are open today from 6am to 9 pm. Be sure to vote if at all possible! In other news - mom's house is now internet and wireless ready!!! Yeah, says the caregiver!!!