Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone! Christ is Risen!

We’ve had a full past week celebrating Easter in the village churches. Again, Hungarians love to spend these celebrations in the church so we had services twice a day for 4 days! Paul had many opportunities to preach and we also were able to lead some worship together. During the 4-day celebration we were a part of another baptism!! Two young brothers were baptized on Easter Monday and our 60 person church grew to 150 people that day to celebrate their decision. It was a 3 hour service of preaching, worship, brass band music, a mens choir, testimonies and of course the baptism itself! After, the whole church was invited for lunch. We always love these opportunities to share a meal with our church as well as with people from the nearby villages. It was a special time for us! We also had the opportunity this month to travel to many other churches to preach for Evangelistic meetings, Palm Sunday and other church services. In total Paul preached over 13 times this month in 6 different villages!

This past month we were able to connect with Youth For Christ (YFC) Romania again to lead them in some training during their staff retreat. Paul and I taught on the purpose of mission teams and how to lead and receive them well. We were humbled by the opportunity to teach them on this topic, as we have just in this last year been able to learn more about receiving and leading mission teams. We also knew that Romanian’s already do such an incredible job at hosting mission teams through their delicious meals and focusing on building relationships. We took this opportunity to dig into the deeper purpose of mission teams and work through some of the cultural tensions that can arise.