Projects, projects, projects!

Hey Everyone!

I apologize for the amount of time its been between now and my last post, although I am so excited to share with you what God has been doing in Budapest!  As you may have gathered from the title of this post, we have been launching ourselves full speed into many different projects.

We have hit the ground running with our research project (which I mentioned in my last post), and... we definitely hit brick wall after brick wall.  For our project we are going around Budapest and engaging high school students, trying to figure out the "spiritual dna" of these youth.  This involves asking them questions that drive to the heart level who they are.

Brick walls! So many road blocks have hindered us from getting quality interviews.  Some of which can be attributed to the language barrier, trouble finding students, and when we do find them they seem to always be in too much of a hurry.

That being said, I have been learning so much through these challenges.  Not only about how to strategically mold our project to better accommodate the people hear, but also God has been teaching me about how to trust Him in this project.  Remember those brick walls I mentioned earlier, well through God's grace and provision a youth from a local church volunteered to translate for us, and through that Austin and our translator landed our first solid interview.  Praise God!!!

We are now better developing strategies on how to better reach students where they are at.  One avenue I am super excited about is going through the local schools, and possibly helping an english teacher a couple days a week.  If you could pray that God would open doors for connections into local schools it would be much appreciated.

Currently we are preparing for another camp with the group from Veszprem!!! I am so very excited to be able to hang out with these people once again.

Remember that youth pastor we ran into in Ljubljana, Slovenia, well we finally got into contact with him again and attended his Church these last two Sundays!  They invited us to join an outreach they are doing in the community later this week, which I am so excited for.  Through another person at the church we were able to get connected to play soccer a couple nights a week starting in the next couple of weeks.

There are so many doors that God is opening here in Hungary and I am so thankful to have a small part in it.  God has been especially working on my heart about trusting Him and His provision.  I am so encouraged by what has been happening these past couple of weeks, and I am looking forward to this week ahead in anticipation.

Prayer Requests:

- Connections will be made with local schools.
- Please pray for the outreach nights with this local church.
- Pray for the camp this weekend with the group from Veszprem.  Pray that God would further strengthen the bond we have with this group.


Thanks so much for your love and support!

Marc