So It DOES Snow in Budapest!

Well, our good weather finally came to an end! We can't complain. It's been wonderful to have no snow for almost the entire month of January. It snowed yesterday and a little bit today. Not alot of snow but some. And so cold here now!! There's still no major snow in the forecast for the next week. So, we could possibly escape January with just a dusting. Yeah!

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International Worship

We are so privileged to worship at Danube International Church here in Budapest. The founders of this church, a little over 10 years ago, described it as a "fellowship of followers of Jesus, serving the English-Speaking Community in Budapest." People from Budapest attend this church plus we have so many visitors from all over that will attend. Someone from Romania might be in the city for a conference and will hear about our church and will attend. Another family from England might be vacationing in Budapest and will attend church at Danube. We have met so many internationals that love Christ and desire to worship at Danube International whenever they have opportunity.

There are many Hungarians that attend our church and they all amaze us with their excellent English. We do have simultaneous translation which allows a Hungarian to use a headset to have the sermon translated for him, if he desires. A Hungarian pastor that has services at his church in the afternoon attends our church. He's usually the one that does the English/Hungarian translation. What a selfless ministry he has!

Our church meets in a rented facility (Mathias Corvinus Collegium) each Sunday morning. The picture is of the front of the "church" where the worship team and pastor leads. Although we don't have our own church building, we are reminded that the church of Jesus Christ is made up of all believers and does not mean just a church building. We take communion with international believers. We sing together and serve together with other believers that have different homelands. It is a privilege to worship with them.

If you would like to listen to our pastor here (Ronnie Stevens), you can check out the church website. You will be blessed! www.danubechurch.org

"After this, I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: 'Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.' Revelation7:9-10

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Pizza 108

Somebody asked recently about the places here that we like to eat out. So, since it's getting close to dinner time here and all of us are feeling pretty hungry, we thought we would tell you about one of the two places that will deliver pizza to us. It's called Pizza 108 (we're not sure what the 108 stands for!) and it's about a mile from our house. We usually decide to call Pizza 108 when we've been through a really busy time and we feel pretty tired. We're sure you can relate! We've had a very full schedule over the last several days so the thought of not cooking dinner and just ordering pizza sounds great. We're so thankful that we have a place to call! We usually call in 4 pizzas, one for each of us. That way we have leftovers. The pizza is not bad although it doesn't have much pizza sauce. Guess that's why the Hungarians put ketchup on the top of their pizza! Not all of us do that in our family but Olivia really likes piling on the ketchup over the cheese! Maybe she's turning into a Hungarian. :)

So, that's the report on a favorite restaurant. If you ever visit us here in Hungary, we'll order some Pizza 108 and try to make you feel at home!

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A New Email Address

We have a new family email address and we will be posting that address on our blog going forward. It won't affect your ability to email us from this blog. But please make a note of it in your address book as we try to phase out our current Brannon family email address. Thanks so much for your emails!!! It's a great encouragement to us to know you read our blogs and then take the time to respond.

New address:

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Some Prayer Requests

Thank you to those of you that continually ask for updated prayer requests. We do appreciate that and are grateful that you continue to pray for the 4 of us. Also, wanted to remind you that another "avenue" for finding out what's going on with us and some of our prayer needs is to go to the BSF website to read our newsletters. They post a newsletter for us about every 3 months or so. The website will be at the bottom of this blog. If you go to that website, click on FRA letters and you'll see our name under Europe.

So, here are a few prayer requests and some praises:

*Praise God with us for a good, smooth beginning to homeschooling. We started back on January 2.

*Praise God with us for good weather here. No snow!

*Please pray for a strong beginning to the BSF class that resumes on January 9. We continue our study in Romans and really are asking God to increase our enrollment.

*Please pray for a productive visit with our BSF International Director who will be arriving for a visit on January 14. Pray that we will be a blessing to him and that our time together will be full of God's grace and encouragement.

*Please pray for our health and safety.

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Happy 2007!!!

Happy New Year from our family to yours! We pray that your 2007 will be a year filled with God's abundant blessings and that He will show you more and more His love for you.

Thank you for your support and care for us in 2006. It was a year full of ups and downs, new things to learn, and a stretching of our faith in an eternally faithful God. We would love to hear from you in 2007! Catch us up on what's going on in your family and let us know of your hopes and prayers for the New Year.

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