Ending the year doesn’t end the ministry
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Dear Praying Friends,
As we are getting closer to the end of the year we enjoy even more the excitement of the result of the efforts of this year. There are SO MANY THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR in 2008! But I’ll write about those in an email at the end of the year. I’ve prepared a short video to summarize some of the things that has happened this year and you can watch it at our website: http://www.advancingthekingdom.hu
But as we are preparing to end the semester strong there are still much to pray for:
1.On December 6th we’ll have a special celebration that we’ve invited everybody who was and is on staff with us in Hungary and are friends of this ministry and happens to live in Hungary. We’ll celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the first missionary crossing the Iron Curtain and move to Hungary and start Campus Crusade here. God blessed beyond imagination that risky and heroic act. God deserves to be celebrated for the thousand of miracles He did during this 30 years both under communism and after the fall of Iron Curtain! People prayed for 70 years for communism fall and so we can’t forget to remember back for the miracles of what has happened! It would be a sin just to walk away and cross that milestones without stopping and giving thanks to the One who deserves it! He is worthy for it and the future generations need to hear about it. At our Christmas prayer-letter (the hardcopy you’ll receive) we’ll write more about the significance of this 30 years! Look for it in your mailbox in mid December!
2.On December 12th we’ll have a semester-ending special YTL Student outreach for both university and high-school students. Your prayers for that is greatly appreciated.
3.Your prayers are appreciated as we are making the final steps on changing our legal entity and moving our staff and accounting into this new legal status from January 1st. This change represents a huge miracle, an answer for tons of prayers and lot of sacrificial, hard work.
4.We are very thankful to see a growing number of students receiving Christ and joining into small discipleship groups. But it is even more exciting to see that this year much more students are sharing their faith regularly than last year.
Family is doing okay. Renato is slowly adjusting to his medication for epilepsy and he is not as tired anymore. Both Rahel and Renato is working very hard on their study - we are proud of them! We are so thankful that all 3 of our kids love each other so much and they express that. They are sleeping together every night in one bed - although they have their own rooms, but they just love to be together! We are sooooo thankful for everything!!!!
Advancing the Kingdom of God together,
Gabor for the family