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 First ever lecture in Bible Centre |
Graham and Amaryllis Stock, Mark and Rachel Bartlett, Roger and Susan Brind and Paul Thomas support the work in Hungary. In the past year, most of our ministry in Hungary has been centred on the work in the Bible Centre in Dömös. |
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Paul and Roger have both been involved with the Bible School that is based there. In February Roger spent a weekend there for discussions about the second year of the Bible School. One of the purposes of the Bible School is to support the work of Assemblies and other churches in Hungary and one way of doing this is to make lecturers available to teach in local fellowships. Roger was invited to speak in a very large fellowship on the outskirts of Budapest and it was really encouraging to see the commitment of the young people there. |
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Stephen McQuoid from GLO joined Roger at the end of April for a weekend study on apologetics and in June, Paul and Roger conducted a weekend study on work with children. There is a core of 10 students and local believers also register for individual sessions. It was good to see the commitment of the registered students and also the visitors. Stephen, Paul and Roger also visited local groups of believers for bible teaching. |
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Graham went to Dömös in the autumn of 2008 to help with the building work there. He reports, “I spent four weeks working towards the finishing of a new building at the Centre and was able to progress one room and stairway to be ready for painting. Sundays and mid week meetings were enjoyed in the Pilsmarot Assembly where all the centre’s personnel fellowship and I was able to share the Word in ministry over three weekends.” Graham and Amaryllis, Mark and Rachel and Roger and Susan led the usual summer camp in the centre. The number of Hungarians who came was disappointing but some of our regular international campers joined us as well and we had a very encouraging week. One of our regular campers, Vera Altman from Ukraine wrote, “There are so many other things I like about these camps: improvement of my English, new countries, new acquaintances, time to rest from school or work and just pray, think, relax and have fun. Although the camp lasted only 1 week and counted about 30 people, I liked it more than the previous camps. All of us could know each other much better than when there were about 100 people and we were like a big family.” |
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 Opening conference at Bible Centre |
Once again a number of people from the locality joined with us for the sessions and we had excellent evangelistic as well as bible teaching opportunities. Each evening, locals joined us for our sports activity sessions and most of them stayed for the evening fellowship time and so we had real opportunities to “gossip the Gospel.” It was very interesting that, when they heard we were returning for a Retreat later in the summer, they asked if they could to join us for the sports activities and this proved to be a great opportunity for witness as they stayed with us until very late in the evenings. |
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We would value prayer for the local people with whom we had contact. We have since heard that all have continued to show interest. Katrin Nagy, a German missionary based in Hungary, told Roger, “The contacts made this August have been really tremendous and we pray to God they will develop more during the winter.” We would also value prayer about the future of our work in Dömös. There are many doors that are open - a youth camp, has been suggested as a follow up to the childrens’ camps being run in Gödöllö, Dömös and elsewhere. A family outreach camp has been proposed and we are discussing changing the format of the English week to make it more international. The team in Dömös has enthusiastically agreed this. |
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We also ran a 5-day retreat to discuss the future of the work that we are involved in. A fuller report of that week appears separately on the website. We asked for complete honesty and we received some very frank evaluations of what we have been seeking to do. |
 Retreat week 2009 |
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We were encouraged to discover that they all felt that the Trust’s ministry over the last 19 years of running International bible-teaching camps has been very valuable. They gave us examples of the benefits in their own lives and explored with us how this opportunity could be reinstated and developed. We were encouraged to continue with many of the ministries in which we are engaged and they suggested we consider doing even more!! There is no doubt that the field is “white unto harvest”. The labourers in this very needy part of the world are few. We have been asked to help in the development of works and in training and equipping future workers. |
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