Please understand that everything we do starts with prayer. It can't be
explained with predictability like Newtonian physics, but prayer to God
does something. Prayer is how God gives dignity to human work in
his kingdom. After all, he could do everything himself, but he really
likes for us to get in on the act. We thank you heartily for praying to
God for the Hungarians, for the Deaf, for us, and for our colleagues.
Current requests
We have been unofficially informed that Karen has been accepted into
Boronkay high school. Thanks again for your work on her behalf. Please
pray that she stays healthy and that she finishes her 8th-grade year
well. (Only three months remain!)
Doug resigned as coach of the Vác Stars this past weekend. Please pray
that the guys on the team will learn how to be part of a team. Doug will
now join other missionaries in a project to begin baseball for 10- to
12-year-olds. Please pray that this program will be a blessing to the
kids who try it.
We will host a Christian Educators Outreach missions conference in Vác not this weekend, but next weekend. Thirty-six persons in all
will attend. Please pray for our final preparations and for the health and
readiness of the partners in missions who will be involved.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 Many Hungarians are called by God's name. They consider themselves Christians because they were born here. However, very few of them care about spiritual things, and most have been brought up believeing that there is no God, no life after death, and nothing beyond what can be seen or measured. Please pray that those who are called by God's name will realize that God exists, that God loves them dearly, that they do not really know him, and that he longs for a close relationship with them.
Say to those with fearful hearts,
"Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you."
Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
- Isaiah 35:4-5
When Jesus was on earth, he healed some deaf people (see Mark 7) and some blind people (see John 9). We are not perticularly interested in curing physical deafness or blindness. A worse condition is that of spiritual deafness and blindness. There are many people in Hungary without faith, without hope, and without love. Please pray that they will see that God has come to save them, and pray that their hearts will see his face and hear his voice.