Dear Friends and Ministry Partners,

 

We've just got back from our Annual Staff Conference. We were together with all of our staff and their families for 5 days. It was such a blessing! Although it was our responsibility and that meant a lot of work, but we've enjoyed the fellowship so much! The teaching was fabulous. A staff veteran, Don Mansfield was our speaker and it was so motivational for evangelism. All the staff are enthusiastic to go back to campuses and high schools to do evangelism. On of the highlight in the teaching was to understand the two obligation about evangelism: evangelism has to be bold and clear.

 

At this staff conference another neat thing has happened. You might remember that a few years ago we were in Bulgaria to start YTL there and had a great symposium for educators. Since then the staff in Bulgaria worked hard to utilize this opportunity and now they've sent a Bulgarian staff couple, Jordan and Vili (they have two little children) to Hungary for a year to learn how to turn YTL to a direct evangelistic and discipleship ministry. They will serve with us in the YTL High School team and after that year they will go home to launch High School ministry in Bulgaria. This is a great privilege that we can help maximize YTL in other countries, too. We would like to see this happened more often. Also, we have 3 American girl serving with us for a year in YTL High School, too.

 

Something else: just today we've started to distribute thousands of evangelistic Student Survival Kits (SSKs) for freshman in Universities of Budapest. We have a good problem: we have more permissions from different universities to distribute those SSKs than how many SSKs we have. Pray that as students will receive those and will fill out the surveys attached to it, would indicate a high interest to talk with someone about God. I will write more about this later. Can't wait to share Christ with many students this week!

 

Let me give a quick summary about the YTL Speak Out camp we had in June-July. Over 300 non-Christian students came and were together with 46 American students. Also, we had 28 student disciples participated in the camp as volunteer helpers. All of them received Christ in the past few years through this ministry, many of them at this camp. It is awesome to see them growing up in their faith and now coming back to the camp not as a non-believer but as a volunteer staff! That is the goal of our whole ministry!

Every afternoon our staff and student disciples went out sharing Christ to the city and to the beach. They've shared Christ (had personal and meaningful conversation) with over 1,100 people at the beach in 4 weeks. At the camp 29 students prayed to receive Christ. This Friday we will have a follow up gathering for them. Pray that most of them would come.

 

We need your prayers for the following:

1. health and stamina for us. The semester just has been started right after the staff conference. We only had 5 days off since we got back from the U.S. And we don't see having any more in the next two months. But it is so exciting to share Christ with those students!

2. we will have a group of Americans coming late September to help follow up the SSKs. Pray that we would be able to organize everything. They will be busy following up the SSKs, doing random evangelism, etc.

3. the Hungarian government is making some various restrictions about tax laws that makes our ministry very difficult, even organizing YTL symposiums and camps. We need wisdom on how to be ethical and true to our calling at the same time. It is a very difficult area that we are struggling with and not just us, but every ministry. Hungary is one of the few country among the post-communist contries which doesn't have law to allow religious organizations exist as a tax format. It brings lot of challenges to us. Pray for wisdom and protection.

4. this week we will see Rahel's dermatologist and we will ask her to continue the treatment she got in the States. Pray that she would aggree and would be willing to give the shots for her.

5. we would like to travel to China in early November, pray that we would know if this is what God wants now.

6. pray for many students receiving Christ and start a new life in Jesus.

7. Rahel will start the English school tomorrow. And parallel she will do the Hungarian school as well. It is a huge challenge for her. She is scared. Pray that she would be able to handle both.

 

The goal of our ministry and life is to glorify God by leading people to Christ. The only way how a human being can glorify God is to repent and to turn to Jesus. We are not interested in making people happy. We are interested to glorify God by introducing Him to the lost. God is at work everywhere in the World. Not at the same degree, but He is working everywhere. We just need to be obedient, bold and clear in evangelism. The best thing we all can do with our lives is to participate in saving souls so more and more soul would bring glory to Him. He deserves it! Isn't He? Yes, He does!

 

Edina, the kids and I are deeply appreciate you! We wouldn't make it without you! Thank you for your love, care and help!

 

Advancing the Kingdom of God together,

 

Gabor and Edina