Tonight, with the help of teammates Tamara and Val, we started a new semester of ESL in Petőfibánya. We were excited to see three new students register. One of those students is Kira (below). Sharon met Kira last night in a local restaurant and invited her to attend. It turns out that Kira is Attila’s sister. You may remember that Attila is the young man who frequently visits our worship service and thursday night Bible studies.

As my class settled in tonight, I carried in the white board I use to teach. It is the same white board that we use on Sundays to display our Church service schedule. I was unaware that last Sunday's schedule was written on the board in marker. As the students prepared for me to begin the lesson, I flipped the board around and in big letters there was an invitation to church. I didn't notice at the time that I had also left the dry board eraser down stairs. In my head, I thought, well that's convenient. So, it seems our church received some 'free' advertising tonight.

In class, I presented the scenario of traveling into the future 100 years. I asked the students what they would do in the future if they had 24 hours before returning to the present. Dezső said, “I would look for the Baptist Church in Petőfibánya because I am sure that it would be here.” Dezső has come a long way in his faith over the past three years. He is becoming an advocate for our church. I also asked Dezső what he thought about last night's Worship Service. He said, it was great, but I missed playing bass. Even though Miki will be unable to play guitar this week, Dezső suggested we still meet and practice worship together. Thank all of you who have been praying that Dezső come to see God’s plan for His church. Please continue to pray!



Below: Andi shared with Csaba how she often desired to go to our church with Kati, but doesn't want to go alone. Andi attended our special Christmas service a few weeks ago, but has not returned since. Please pray that God would give her courage to come back and that He would also bless Kati with a desire to know Him more. I look forward to the day when they both will attend with hearts of worship because of God’s forgiveness.



In other news, we are sending Csaba to Budapest this week to participate in a church planters training course. Please pray that God would continue to equip Csaba and build up his faith. Csaba is a member of our church and currently lives in the neighboring town of Lőrinci. We believe that Lőrinci also needs to hear God’s message of restoration through His Son. As Csaba says, "I don’t believe it’s by chance that I am serving on a church planting team in Petőfibánya and that God provided a place for me to live in Lőrinci.”