Here's an excerpt from Olivia's Summer 2007 Ministry Report. If you would like the full one page report, email us and we'll send it to you......
A New Perspective
This summer, I was given the opportunity to work at an evangelistic English camp called Speak Out. This English camp is run by Americans and Hungarians that come together with the aim of sharing Christ with Hungarian students. Speak Out is designed to impact the English students and the tutors who teach them. The perspective of the whole month was that God was enough and that people mattered.
Speak Out began with a week long orientation in English camp details. We cleaned, prepared, and practiced so that we could bring true joy to our campers. We knew we were at camp for our campers but the task of running Speak Out seemed infinitely small when we thought about God and His greatness. Orientation, however, united the love of our campers and God’s plan for their life. We were equipped and sent out on a journey of love and learning..........
.................Speak Out is over but it is not forgotten. God is still enough and people still matter. The lack of Speak Out cannot remove this truth. The perspective of Speak Out continues on in the staff that saw God work in our students and in the students that made our God their own. I pray that God will continue to be elevated and that people will still be loved because of the example of Speak Out.
Olivia Brannon
Summer 2007 Ministry Report-Budapest, Hungary
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Saturday in Budapest
The weather is hot again! Probably most of you can relate as we continue to see the difficult heat and terrible flooding going on in the states. Europe is weathering another heat wave and many people are suprised that the heat continues to linger in the latter days of August. We're looking forward to a supposed break in the weather next week as rain is predicted for several of the days.
It has been a busy week filled with ministry, schooling, and planning. We have trips in October that we need to get organized and planned. The days are going by too fast! The third week of school was just finished and the girls are doing well in staying on task and motivated. They know that even busier days lie ahead which will make school a challenge to complete. Study, study now!
So, today is a fun day of rest with no commitments except time with friends and maybe a little time with the lawnmower and the dust mop! But we do plan to enjoy some down time before a very busy Sunday at Danube. Activities at church are back in full swing for the fall season and it's a crazy time until the end of the year.
Thank you for your prayers for our family!
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
It has been a busy week filled with ministry, schooling, and planning. We have trips in October that we need to get organized and planned. The days are going by too fast! The third week of school was just finished and the girls are doing well in staying on task and motivated. They know that even busier days lie ahead which will make school a challenge to complete. Study, study now!
So, today is a fun day of rest with no commitments except time with friends and maybe a little time with the lawnmower and the dust mop! But we do plan to enjoy some down time before a very busy Sunday at Danube. Activities at church are back in full swing for the fall season and it's a crazy time until the end of the year.
Thank you for your prayers for our family!
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Men's Prayer Breakfast
In our growing role with Danube International Church, one of the desires we have for this church is that "body life" among the believers will increase. In an international situation like this, church life is really different from what we're famililar with back in the states. One of the big differences is not having the use of a permanent facility throughout the week. Danube International Church rents a facility for a few hours on Sunday morning in order for believers in Budapest to worship. We don't own our own church so that means that events throughout the week are a challenge and they have to be held in homes or other places that are easy to get to.
So, we're continually looking for opportunities for Danube church members to come together during the week to encourage one another and to grow in fellowship with each another and with Christ. One great way that Curt has accomplished this is through a Men's Prayer Breakfast this summer. He purposely chose the Pest side of Budapest for men to meet, pray, and have breakfast together. By having it on that side of the river, that helped men attend that wouldn't be able to if it was on the Buda side.
This Friday is another meeting of the Prayer Breakfast and there could be as many as 15 men joining together. That's a huge number for this part of the world! Maybe we'll be able to get a picture or two of this group and we'll post it to a later blog.
Pray that this men's group will grow and that there will be other groups that will grow out of this one.
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
So, we're continually looking for opportunities for Danube church members to come together during the week to encourage one another and to grow in fellowship with each another and with Christ. One great way that Curt has accomplished this is through a Men's Prayer Breakfast this summer. He purposely chose the Pest side of Budapest for men to meet, pray, and have breakfast together. By having it on that side of the river, that helped men attend that wouldn't be able to if it was on the Buda side.
This Friday is another meeting of the Prayer Breakfast and there could be as many as 15 men joining together. That's a huge number for this part of the world! Maybe we'll be able to get a picture or two of this group and we'll post it to a later blog.
Pray that this men's group will grow and that there will be other groups that will grow out of this one.
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Monday, August 20, 2007
Praise and Prayer
No, we haven't gone on vacation from blogging! But we're sort of in the brainstorming mode of revamping how we do our blogs and whether or not our blogs are of interest to our friends out in the cyber world. But in the meantime, while we're thinking on those things, we do want to continue to ask you for your prayer and for you to join in praise of our great God as He does great things. A few praises and prayer requests:
*Praise!! Our FBC missionaries in Serbia, Yarko and Elena, now own a lot to proceed on building their much needed new home.
*Praise!! The translation project we told you about in an earlier blog is well underway with hopes of completion by December.
*Praise!! Emil from Erdevik (who fell from a ladder a couple of months ago) continues to recover. He has 5 screws in his ankle and 3 screws and a metal plate in his forearm. But his health is improving. Pray for continued recovery. Emil has 3 children.
*Pray!! There is a need for a place to rent in Ruma for the small church now meeting in Igor's flat.
*Pray!! Pastor Ronnie Stevens, (http://www.danubechurch.org/) will kick off the new semester at HUB Bible school (north of Belgrade) during the first 2 weeks of October. He'll be teaching on the book of Matthew. Pray for clarity and understanding by the students.
*Pray!! HUB Bible School will launch a 2nd year of study in October. The 1st year of study will continue to be a study of the entire Bible. The added 2nd year will be a practical application of the 1st year of study to the importance of the local church. (preaching, teaching, leader development, counseling, evangelism, church planting, etc.) Pray for effective teaching and opportunities for practical application.
Thank you!
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
*Praise!! Our FBC missionaries in Serbia, Yarko and Elena, now own a lot to proceed on building their much needed new home.
*Praise!! The translation project we told you about in an earlier blog is well underway with hopes of completion by December.
*Praise!! Emil from Erdevik (who fell from a ladder a couple of months ago) continues to recover. He has 5 screws in his ankle and 3 screws and a metal plate in his forearm. But his health is improving. Pray for continued recovery. Emil has 3 children.
*Pray!! There is a need for a place to rent in Ruma for the small church now meeting in Igor's flat.
*Pray!! Pastor Ronnie Stevens, (http://www.danubechurch.org/) will kick off the new semester at HUB Bible school (north of Belgrade) during the first 2 weeks of October. He'll be teaching on the book of Matthew. Pray for clarity and understanding by the students.
*Pray!! HUB Bible School will launch a 2nd year of study in October. The 1st year of study will continue to be a study of the entire Bible. The added 2nd year will be a practical application of the 1st year of study to the importance of the local church. (preaching, teaching, leader development, counseling, evangelism, church planting, etc.) Pray for effective teaching and opportunities for practical application.
Thank you!
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
A New Car!
Well, not exactly. But "new" to us for the next 10 months. A missionary family left today for about a 10 month furlough. They didn't want to sell their car but hated to have it sit for that long. And we didn't want to buy a second car. Too much hassle to buy a car, pretty expensive insurance, and the upkeep on two cars is more trouble that we thought it was worth. So, the solution to getting another car? Rent! That's what we'll be doing for the next 1o months with this car. And for the first time since we've lived in Budapest, we'll have a second vehicle! Wow, we won't know how to act. No more meticulous planning of schedules to make sure that everyone has a ride to where they need to go. Curt will be able to hop into this car and Shay will take the van. The new car seems to run pretty well and has a pretty good air conditioner. Curt is even thinking about taking it to Serbia on his trip next week. Although it could be sort of tricky with Curt not being the owner of the car. He might get to the border and not be able to cross! We'll have to wait and see.
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Thursday, August 02, 2007
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