A Certain Woman in Eastern Europe

For more than 10 years, I have had a dream of renovating the basement space of my building.  In those years, I have been able to put in or renew windows and a front door and finally was able to add a bathroom.  Because of the persistence and research of a dear friend's husband we were able to put in a very good heating system where there was none and upgrade the pump(s) for lifting the sewage.  Whew!!  Big progress but not really useable or livable...... And then suddenly, largely because of the God sent missionary catalyst, named Nadia, work has resumed and with a speed, that has taken my breath away!  I believe God's timing is not the same as our's but His ways are perfectly in tune and on time. Thanks for "invading" my space, Nadia and sharing your connections. Work in progress

The beautiful Adirondacks Home with family (Poughkeepsie,NY) Road trip with son - conference near Niagara Falls First time at this amazing sight!! Lots of fun family, friends events and reunions Our wonderful tradition - the cousin's lunch Great one - Michael and Raylene surprise Mikhaila for her sweet 16th The proud grandma's The "doormen/greeters" Bryce (#1 grand) & his cousin Chris Mikhaila (grand#2) - absolutely surprised on her "Sweet 16th" Austin, (#3 grand) -camera shy but often the center of things

Because this team came to Hungary....... MJ, Pastor Volodya, Helen, Dean, Nadia, Natasha, Kathy - Team from California who ministered in Ukraine and Hungary doing Post-Abortion healing weekends for men. This connection was made Nadia, MJ, Natasha - Nadia returning to Romania after seeing Natasha & meeting MJ And because God knit the hearts of Nadia & MJ together, MJ opened her door to this wonderful group of young women who had been traveling on mission together for 11 months, 11 countries with "World Racers"  Nadia invited her friends back to Budapest and then shared with MJ about her desire to have a home and cook for people and pray for them and love on them and MJ shared about Certain Women and how Batthyany 18 was always meant to be a ministry house and then Nadia moved in!!!

Traveling this spring took me to San Antonio and New Braunfels, Texas.  I met with and was a speaker for AIM, Texas. It was a "Combining Fires" Conference and I had the privilege of speaking on Pentecost Sunday. I spoke on the wind and the fire of God and was soon after caught up in the wind of change! I was the house guest of John and Karen Dean in San Antonio, here with their daughter, Karen. John is one of the Apostolic heads of AIM and has made many trips to Budapest. This was the first time I got to meet his girls.

After almost 2.5 years of serving as "Chief Elder", trustee and functioning as Pastor of the Church, the Lord made it clear in a "suddenly" that the time of this assignment had come to an end.  It was a bit of a struggle to walk away but God's voice was clear and key people were ready to quickly step up and pick up the slack. It seemed to be one of the smoothest transitions in the history of church changes.  My last Sunday was June 23 and I traveled to the USA for a summer with the family. I saw almost all of my family and so many friends while in New York - it was an exceptional summer. More of that to come. The wonderful ICB leadership team surprising me with a very generous gift From left: Jim & Tanya Person, me, Frida & Ebenezer Aketey and Attila & Ago Szucs (and Anna) Ready to carry ICB forward