Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Spring '15 $upport Update

  Praise the Lord!

We are getting closer to going back to Hungary!

Many Hungarians have said, "We need you back! Please come back to Hungary!" Believe me, we would love to - especially with the great exchange rate right now!

The thermometer to the right is the MINIMUM we need to raise - we would love to go back with extra - it would help others in so many ways!

So far, we have spoken to 31 groups; hundreds of individuals and traveled 9000 miles in 5 months. Why? Simply for the fact that WE CANNOT GO BACK UNTIL MORE SUPPORT IS RAISED!

Less than 2% of Hungary are evangelical believers. 

Why travel so far? We go wherever we are invited and speak to whom God has opened a door. We are doing the best that we can and pray that those with whom we have spoken and those whom we know would understand the lengths we go to tell about church planting, building relationships in a hard land with people that continually ask us why we are there. Would we like to speak to a group you know? Sure! You are the easiest way your group will listen to us. They don't know us, but they DO know YOU!

How do you get funded for support? We ask people to invest with us in reaching the Hungarian people, you yourself can right now - if you feel a 'nudge' that is from God - go ahead, answer that nudge! Just click to the right on one of the links and sign up for monthly support. Maybe the reason it is taking so long is because people are thinking, "Oh, someone else will do that" - You ARE the someone else! Could you invest $50/monthly? More? Less? Great! Sign up on that link! That's ALL you need to do!

Our language fund isn't going as fast as we would like it to, either but we know that the monthly support is the most important. Next is the language school fund. Before we left we had people sigh and say, "Oh, your Hungarian is SO much better than it was earlier!"  Help us get back so we don't lose what language we have learned.
It is understandable that times can be difficult, but we also see and hear of many people who go on more than one vacation or getaway. What if you just helped further the Gospel with what you spent with 'extras' you bought in one day, like the coffee(s), lunch (instead, brown-bag it that day), dinner (fix it at home rather than going out), and picking up 'a little something' can be from $10-100 - This way, in reality, you could have just invested that money into a month's worth of support - and it was only one day out of a month! Not a huge sacrifice for God, but something.

Less than 2% of Hungary are evangelical believers. Those are people who have accepted Jesus as their Savior and are making a stand for Christ. ALL of Europe is back to being an unreached people group! Not just people in China, Africa and Muslim countries, but where many of our own ancestors came from, where the Gospel in our language came from!

In two short years, we have seen changes happen, worked with some who have made those changes and set our neighborhood where we lived on it's ear through friendship evangelism. We were the only native English speakers in a city of 20,000! Would you do that? No?  Then send us back so we can!

Our team, our church and our friends are praying for us to come back….