Plan on coming to the 2009 First Bible Church Mission Conference. It promises to be an exciting weekend with Pastor Ronnie Stevens from Budapest, Hungary, as the speaker. Pastor Ronnie was our pastor in Budapest at Danube International church (http://www.danubechurch.org/) He's a terrific speaker with a lot of mission field experience. Try to come to at least one of the sessions!
Friday Evening, February 27th, 6:00 p.m.
Saturday Evening, February 28th, 6:00 p.m.
Sunday Morning, March 1, 9:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. (Two services-choose 1)
Sunday Evening, March 1, 6:00 p.m.
For directions to First Bible, go to their website or you can email us. (www.fbc.org)
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Monday, January 26, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Some Pictures From Curt's Trip
First Picture: Balla Zsolt Family from Campus Crusade
Second Picture: Curt with Ondrej Franka from Serbia
Third Picture: Jarko and Elena Jurik from Serbia
Fourth Picture: Our friend, Ibi, with some of her staff
Fifth Picture: Our former landlord, Elemer and Maria, with their grandaughter
More pictures to come as we get them! Curt arrived safely home last night. Thank you for your prayers.
Friday, January 16, 2009
An Article Concerning the Gas Situation in Eastern Europe
FOXNews.com - Misery Mounts as Russia Gas Dispute Stretches Into Third Week - International News News of the World Middle East News Europe News
You may have seen this article on the Fox Website. It gives an idea of what Curt saw and heard about in Serbia while he was there.
He is back in Budapest today and will fly back to the States on Sunday.
You may have seen this article on the Fox Website. It gives an idea of what Curt saw and heard about in Serbia while he was there.
He is back in Budapest today and will fly back to the States on Sunday.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
A Blog to Follow
Hi everyone!
Just wanted to bring your attention to a GREAT blog that you'll want to follow. We have the link on our sidebar but we wanted to highlight it for you. It's a blog by our good friends, the Slates, who are serving Christ in Ireland. Scott and Tara, along with their 3 children, left the states for Ireland last July. You may remember when we posted a support letter from them on our blog last Spring. God is using them in a great way and we're thankful for their sacrifice, commitment, and faith.
http://www.theslatefive.wordpress.com/
Curt is in Serbia and it is cold there! Just like it is here in the states. The Danube has huge chunks of ice in it. We will get you an update on him when we can. Thank you for your prayers!
Happy Anniversary to Shay's parents today! They have been married for 53 years. Wow!!
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Just wanted to bring your attention to a GREAT blog that you'll want to follow. We have the link on our sidebar but we wanted to highlight it for you. It's a blog by our good friends, the Slates, who are serving Christ in Ireland. Scott and Tara, along with their 3 children, left the states for Ireland last July. You may remember when we posted a support letter from them on our blog last Spring. God is using them in a great way and we're thankful for their sacrifice, commitment, and faith.
http://www.theslatefive.wordpress.com/
Curt is in Serbia and it is cold there! Just like it is here in the states. The Danube has huge chunks of ice in it. We will get you an update on him when we can. Thank you for your prayers!
Happy Anniversary to Shay's parents today! They have been married for 53 years. Wow!!
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Sunday In Budapest
Curt arrived safely in Hungary and has had a busy weekend. He attended Danube International Church this morning and had a wonderful time reconnecting with our friends. Communion was observed and Pastor Ronnie delivered a powerful sermon. Just like old times! After church, he was off to lunch with Pastor Ronnie to one of Ronnie's favorite restaurants and then this evening they are invited to Al and Jeannie Stirling's home for dinner. Al and Jeannie are our good friends who are "missionaries to missionaries". They specialize in missionary care which is an important ministry to help keep missionaries and their families on the field.
The "girls" back home in the states wish they could be in Hungary, too! Hearing about the details of life there and the friends we left behind really makes us thank God again for the privilege we had of living in Budapest.
Thank you for your prayers! As an update on the heat situation in Serbia: an emergency agreement between Hungary and Serbia allowed gas to flow to Serbia immediately. Hopefully, there will be a resolution in the dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
More later.......
The "girls" back home in the states wish they could be in Hungary, too! Hearing about the details of life there and the friends we left behind really makes us thank God again for the privilege we had of living in Budapest.
Thank you for your prayers! As an update on the heat situation in Serbia: an emergency agreement between Hungary and Serbia allowed gas to flow to Serbia immediately. Hopefully, there will be a resolution in the dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
More later.......
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Trip to Hungary
Curt leaves for Budapest tomorrow morning. We're so excited at the thought of him being back in that part of the world! How much we love the people and places in Eastern Europe. We are so curious to see how it will be for Curt to be there without all 4 of us together. What will have changed since we left in May? Who in the missionary community has left for the states for good? How will the church service at Danube on Sunday stir his heart? Will the weather be a factor in what he's able to get done? There is a major crisis brewing with the availability of heat in the Eastern European countries. With the pipeline dispute between Russia and the Ukraine, it has affected so many people in other countries. Jarko from Serbia wrote and told us that they have no heat! None! Everything has been cut off. We are concerned for them. Plus, Curt is slated to be in Serbia next week. So this will affect him, too.
Thank you to those that are interested in this trip and have continued to be interested in the ministries that God has graciously allowed us to develop and be a part of. Your prayers have been such a gift to us and we recognize that our ministry is fueled by your prayer. We are humbled in working in partnership with you.
If Curt comes to mind this week, please pray for:
*Safety in travel
*That he will be an encouragement to our brothers and sisters in Christ in Hungary and Serbia
*Heat!
*Opportunities to share the gospel
*Wisdom in his priorities while he is there
Shay will try to get updates here on the blog on how his trip is going. Please check back for updated prayer requests. Thank you!
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Thank you to those that are interested in this trip and have continued to be interested in the ministries that God has graciously allowed us to develop and be a part of. Your prayers have been such a gift to us and we recognize that our ministry is fueled by your prayer. We are humbled in working in partnership with you.
If Curt comes to mind this week, please pray for:
*Safety in travel
*That he will be an encouragement to our brothers and sisters in Christ in Hungary and Serbia
*Heat!
*Opportunities to share the gospel
*Wisdom in his priorities while he is there
Shay will try to get updates here on the blog on how his trip is going. Please check back for updated prayer requests. Thank you!
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
Friday, January 02, 2009
Brannon Update
This was the letter we sent out via email to the FBC congregation. Thought you might like to read about some of the decisons that we've recently made. Thanks for your interest!
January 2009
Dear Church Family,
Happy New Year to you all! The Brannons are looking with anticipation to the New Year to see how God will continue to use First Bible Church in missions world-wide. With the Mission Conference just around the corner, we are praying that God will prompt our conference speaker, Pastor Ronnie Stevens, to encourage all of us to put missions as a main priority in 2009.
To update you on our family, we have now been back in the states for about 7 months. As we left Budapest in May, we were asking God to show us what He would have us do as we finished up our first "missionary term". We had been in Budapest for 4 plus years and felt like we were completing some of the main projects that we had been involved with. It seemed that God was leading us back to the U.S. to regroup and to seek His plan for our future direction.
The last 7 months have been very busy as we have put our oldest daughter, Olivia, in college in Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and enrolled our daughter, Meredith, in 10th grade at Bob Jones High School in Madison. Business interests in our family-owned company needed to be attended to by Curt and Shay also began the process of renewing her teacher's license. Plus the transition back to full-time living in the United States has been more of a challenge than we thought! Thank you to those that have encouraged us in our "settling in".
Now to the future! Our family still passionately loves missions. We remain involved in developing new and existing ministry projects overseas. Curt will leave for Budapest and Serbia on January 9th for 10 days and will return again to Serbia in mid-May for a missions conference. But, for now (maybe up to 3 years) we believe our family needs to be based in the U.S. We hope you will join us in asking the Lord to move us back towards a more permanent overseas missions presence in His timing.
We are so thankful for First Bible Church and for your support of our family these past 4 years. Your prayers and interest in us and the work in Eastern Europe have been encouraging. Our plan for the present is to remain involved in the exciting happenings at First Bible and to get to know all the new people that have joined First Bible in our absence! We are currently living in Madison and you can reach us at:
PO Box 1943
Madison, AL 35758
325-8737
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
www.brannonfamily.blogspot.com
Our love and thanks to you,
Curt, Shay, Olivia, and Meredith Brannon
January 2009
Dear Church Family,
Happy New Year to you all! The Brannons are looking with anticipation to the New Year to see how God will continue to use First Bible Church in missions world-wide. With the Mission Conference just around the corner, we are praying that God will prompt our conference speaker, Pastor Ronnie Stevens, to encourage all of us to put missions as a main priority in 2009.
To update you on our family, we have now been back in the states for about 7 months. As we left Budapest in May, we were asking God to show us what He would have us do as we finished up our first "missionary term". We had been in Budapest for 4 plus years and felt like we were completing some of the main projects that we had been involved with. It seemed that God was leading us back to the U.S. to regroup and to seek His plan for our future direction.
The last 7 months have been very busy as we have put our oldest daughter, Olivia, in college in Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and enrolled our daughter, Meredith, in 10th grade at Bob Jones High School in Madison. Business interests in our family-owned company needed to be attended to by Curt and Shay also began the process of renewing her teacher's license. Plus the transition back to full-time living in the United States has been more of a challenge than we thought! Thank you to those that have encouraged us in our "settling in".
Now to the future! Our family still passionately loves missions. We remain involved in developing new and existing ministry projects overseas. Curt will leave for Budapest and Serbia on January 9th for 10 days and will return again to Serbia in mid-May for a missions conference. But, for now (maybe up to 3 years) we believe our family needs to be based in the U.S. We hope you will join us in asking the Lord to move us back towards a more permanent overseas missions presence in His timing.
We are so thankful for First Bible Church and for your support of our family these past 4 years. Your prayers and interest in us and the work in Eastern Europe have been encouraging. Our plan for the present is to remain involved in the exciting happenings at First Bible and to get to know all the new people that have joined First Bible in our absence! We are currently living in Madison and you can reach us at:
PO Box 1943
Madison, AL 35758
325-8737
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
www.brannonfamily.blogspot.com
Our love and thanks to you,
Curt, Shay, Olivia, and Meredith Brannon
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