Budapest, Back to work!!

I am back in Budapest for my 3rd Sunday since the trip to New York. Since the end of January, I am the chief elder of the International Church of Budapest (ICB), serving with a team of co-leaders. I have a wonderful an International group of partners in ministry. The leaders are from Ghana, Hungary, England and the USA.  Usually, August can bring a smaller number of  people to church due to vacations but we have had some really good services with decent attendance. We are increasingly hopeful for the future of ICB.

Last Sunday, we welcomed back Jim, Tanya, David, Bethany and Jennifer Person after their 15 month sabbatical in U.S. &Alaska. Jim & Tanya first came to Hungary on a home-group mission trip to visit me. At the end of the visit God called them to minister in Hungary.  Here David is leading worship for us. 


Here we are praying for one of our young people, Selena after she gave her life to the Lord.
 A young girl, I look up to :-) Selena helps care for our children ages 1 -5.
 Glad to be preaching again. We have been doing a series on the Kingdom of God and the message was on the Family of God.
 Love being back in worship,too!!
This Sunday our friends at the Russian Church joined us again for a joint service. Here is Pastor Luba preaching and our artist friend, Sasha translating

This was again a very International service as a worship team from YWAM lead worship. We all enjoyed a buffet lunch together afterwards. God's presence was just sweet as we worshipped, prayed and shared the Word and food together.  Plans are underway for our churches to join together to do some prayer walking at strategic locations in the city. Please be praying for this.

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