Statistical overview

Dear Friend,
As you might suspect, every year we take it seriously to measure and evaluate the impact of our ministry in Hungary. Last year before Christmas we spent a half day with just this. I have summarized the results and put them here for you to see. Praise God with us as you look at these numbers. If you have any questions about this, please do not hesitate to email me and ask me.
Blessings,
Kalman

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	2006	2007	2008	2009
Personal evangelistic discussion	2750	2252	5046	3749
Other evangelistic impact: an opportunity offered	32089	20738	26686	34230
Total evangelistic impact of CCC Hungary	34839	22990	31732	37979
Total students who trusted Christ	92	81	90	107
Total completing basic Follow-up	27	27	34	64

YTL's New Opportunity!

Mark

I would like to tell you a bit about Mark, a student I met about 2 and a half months ago. He is studying to be an engeneer. Playing the trumpet is his hobby and passion as well. During our first random conversation I shared the Gospel with him and he seemed very intersted. He especially emphasized that he always suspected that with all the wonders in the world there had to be a creator. He was open to hear more about God, but I think at first he was just happy to be able to talk to someone about the things of God. We met several times over the coming weeks and his main struggle was to accept Christ as God. He had no problem accepting God and all that He has done for him, but the person of Christ puzzled him a bit. After some talking, God's convicting and some Bible reading/thinking on his side, he one day finally understood. He told me "I think I just needed some time to think about what you said". That day he prayed with me to trust Christ for the first time. That was about 4 weeks ago. Please pray for his continued growth in Christ and that he would want to continue in discipleship. More to come about Mark...
Thank you.
Kalman

- Posted from my iPhone

Csilla

We wrote about Csilla last time. Since then we’ve been meeting every other week. There is a material we go through (about assurance of salvation, God's forgiveness, walking in the Spirit, spiritual battles, community with God). It's awesome to see how she is growing in her knowledge of God, how her convictions grow stronger. She reads the Bible, and writes her favorite verses in her phone. She wants to be a witness. She meets someone regularly who she shares her faith with. She was in Csillebérc and learned a lot. Her relationship with her sister changed, one time she even read the Bible with her Mom. She will have her final exams in high school next year and prays a lot for God's plan. It's a great blessing to know this girl and see the Spirit's power in her life. Pray for her growth...

....and I would write about Erika who decided again that she would like to grow in her faith. Erika's roommate, Zsuzsa would like to trust Christ. My SSK meetings are awesome, every other girl would like to meet again. During BHHP week I got to know a couple (Bálint and Móni). Since then, Kalman and I met them, they are very open, and came to Csillebérc for a day and a half. Andi met with an American (Henry) during the random time at BHHP week. She is a very shy girl, but she opened up and talked about things with Henry she has never told to anyone before. Henry helped her to make a very hard decision through that she experienced God's forgiveness in her life. Through this experience this girl became very open to hear the gospel and wants to know more about Him. There are so many people turning to God, that several groups are forming. Lilla is leading more and more people, Zsofi began to follow up a student. God works in an awesome way in Hungary! Give thanks to Him! We are very thankful for your prayers and support!

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Jn 15:7

Prayer

„And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” (Ez 22:30)

I was thinking about this verse this summer, and the motivation of a loyal, deep prayer for Hungary and the ministry became stronger in my heart. I was praying for our students and God motivating them to pray more and more. In September we made a prayer calendar and began a one month long prayer-chain for the ministry. We made a prayer web page, where our students also can write the thanksgivings and prayer requests. It's awesome to experience what happens through this prayer-chain. Student's characters are shaping, they go deeper, they are consistent in prayer, and experience the power of their prayers. During the one month long prayer-chain there were several decisions for Christ, the number of our weekly meeting participiants doubled, FEK activities began in 6 other cities and we experience the power of prayer in our families too. We don't want to languish. God motives many students to fast. We know it's just the beginning, but we're sure if God prepares something in Hungary, in our ministry, and in our church, it begins with the revival of the individuals. Give thanks for these experiences and pray for the students becoming people of prayer!

15 years of YTL

"5 years ago I was at a YTL symposium and it had a great impact on me. I've received Jesus Christ there and since than our lives are continue changing, my life along my family's life. The emphasis in my life had been changed, I don't direct my life any more, but I listen what the Lord of my life, Jesus Christ wants to tell me through the Holy Spirit. It was a great spiritual adventure - in a positive way - to get to know this way and leave the old lifestyle. I needed great courage to believe that God loves unconditionally, forgave me and I can trust in Him; I can rely my family's life and my friend's life on Him with hope and faith. Thanks God and for you for this great miracle."

These sentences were written by an educator who came to the 15th anniversary celebration YTL symposium and gives a great example of the impact of YTL in the lives of the educators and students.

YTL Symposium 2009 Video

200910 :: BHHP & YTL symposium :: BHHP hét és FÉK szimpózium from :: b a c z y n s k i :: on Vimeo.

BHHP 2009

The most busy and eventful week is behind us now. With a team of 22 Americans we celebrated couple weeks ago on Sunday a week of evangelism. The main purpose was to surface a lot of new contacts and relationships for the ministry, and share the Gospel with many! Here what happened:

Random evangelism: this is what most said felt really stretched by. We went to different campuses and initiated spiritual/Gospel conversations with any student we could find. We shared the Gospel with 50-60 students in three days this way. There were some life changing conversations!

Dorm outreaches: We targeted five different dorms in to nights with different events. Americans and Hungarians, we partnered to take the Gospel message to these locations, to these students. We have reached out to 150 students through these events. All events went well, with good reception from the students in these dorms!

Large outreach on Wednesday: We opened up our weekly meeting this week to many new students. Lots of promotion went on before this night! we had about 170 students there. I gave a talk on sexual relationships. There were laughter and tears as well. Many said they've learned new things. I talked about the importance of spiritual trust and unconditional love as the basis for a meaningful sexual relationship in marriage. Based on the comment cards gathered at the end of the event, students had a positive experience, many said would come back for more conversations in the coming weeks.

English classes: We have visited English classes in three different Universities. We talked about different topics, had some discussion time with the students, and promoted our events in each!

Freshmen Survival Kits: we gave out close to 1 000 FSKs in three different colleges. This will give us a lot of fresh contacts of students interested in a personal relationship with God!

Besides all the campus activities we had a busy high school ministry schedule as well. Through high school assemblies, and classroom presentations we could reach more than 2000 students. Our high school ministry also had a large outreach on Friday with 200 students present.

At the end of the week we held our annual Youth at the Threshold of Life symposium. With close to 300 teachers this was a great ending of a fruitful week! We shared the gospel with the teachers, and we challenged them to take the YTL material and the Jesus Film into their schools to teach it and show it to their students!

This week the Gospel went out to many in different forms! Please pray that we would be able to follow up all of the interested and open students in the coming weeks!

You Are Special

200910 :: értékes vagy :: you are special from :: b a c z y n s k i :: on Vimeo.

this film is the newest from our ministry, it is the book "you are special" in hungarian. we have used one of the best known dubbing voices in hungary.

Image film of Budapest

One of our staff colleague's (Gabor Madarasz) brother Steven is a filmmaker and he invited us to be extras on a set of a short image film of Budapest. It shows famous and surprising Hungarian inventions and the people who invented them. You can see our backs and our faces (blurred) as well in the restaurant scene towards the end of the film (from 2:56 to 3:03 and around 3:29 as well). Enjoy.

Poker night

Dear friends, we have been having poker nights with some of our students for over a year now and it has really been great, since it is a place some students will come to before they are willing to go to anywhere near a Church. Tonight we had one of those nights. Kornél, the freshmen I led to Christ last week via a random meeting (back, middle in blue shirt) came and really enjoyed it. He is truly looking for real friends, praise God this is one way to bring him into a good fellowship of peers who can be good models for him. Please keep praying for him!

(Clockwise from my seat to the left: Sanyi, Balazs, Gabi, Kornel, Rocco, Andras)

Our vacation in Slovenia

SpeakOut 2009

SpeakOut 2009 and Transylvania

Unity: 2Corinthians 3,18 – „...transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” We experienced the reality of this verse. Different pasts, cultures, personalities, still, we were one in Christ, in the passion of winning students for God's glory, and build them through the power of the Spirit. This unity glorified God.

Prayer: one of the evenings we were talking about the spiritual battle (Ephesians 6,12-13). Everybody felt it: physical (there were many viruses in the camp), the afternoons and conversations about spiritual things were tiring socially and emotionally. On the first week we organized a night of prayer. Every room prayed for 15 minutes for the campers by name and for the spiritual barriers in their lives. We had a candle that we passed on to each other, room to room. It arrived in the morning to the last room. It meant that everyone stayed up. This prayer-chain had great power, it was a big experience personally.

Cities: we sang many times “God of this city”, which says “there is no one like our God, He is the God of the city, a Lord of our nation, and greater things are still to be done”. We experienced this. In Keszthely (where SpeakOut is organized) over the past years, a large number of students heard the gospel, there are partnerships with a local church, and a student bible study group. This year a relationship begun with the mayor, a police officer, and the director of the local beach. Similar things happened in Miercurea Ciuc (Transylvania), where we spent a very blessed week. Students were very open to the gospel, 16 of them became believers, they may join to the local Baptist church. This church is very mission centered, some students came with us to share the gospel.

Stories: Erika came to Speak Out! Julcsi was in Transylvania that week. She is growing slowly in her relationship with Christ, it's hard for her to believe that God will develop her life. Kalman's disciple, Sanyi invited his brother and his brother's friend to the first week of SO. They joined us in going out to share the gospel. It was good to see how much they love God. In the last week Julcsi and two students talked with a girl named Csilla. For the first time she was ignoring, but they begun to pray for her, and talked a lot. By the end of the week, she didn't want to be with the other campers any more, she had a lot of questions, and on the last night she decided to give a chance to God. When she arrived home, she realized her friendships and love relationship are unstable, and God can be the only sure thing in her life. She begun to go to a Church. She is just one of the 67 students who became believers during the 3 weeks. Praise God!

Please pray for this four things (unity, prayer, cities, stories) give thanks, and ask God to continue his work!

Panorama of Budapest

Dear Friends, Please click on the link below to see a wonderful panorama image of Hungary:

http://www.gillesvidal.com/sziget2008/budapestchateau.htm

You Are Special

200910 :: értékes vagy :: you are special from :: b a c z y n s k i :: on Vimeo.

With Lóránt

I just found this picture with my disciple Sanyi, and Lóránt, a Transylvanian Hungarian student who prayed with us to receive Christ this fall on our mission trip to Cluj, Transylvania. Lóránt has been weekly discipled by a fellow Hungarian "Crusader" living in Transylvania.

Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Blessed 2009 from Kalman and Julia "Julcsi" Kovács!

Photos from Transylvania

Származási hely: Erdély 2008

Trip to Transylvania - 2008

Last week we had the privilege to go to Cluj, Transylvania (in Romania) for about 3 days. Our plan was to visit Levi Albu, a Transylvanian Hungarian Crusade staff living and serving among the Hungarian university students in Cluj and to help him „jump-start” a YTL Ministry. Levi spent his last year in Hungary with our team to be prepared and to gain experience in serving among Hungarians. He has been in Cluj since June, 2008.

We left Budapest at 4:30 am Tuesday morning with a team of 9 (5 staff and 4 students) and got to Cluj at 2:30 pm. After arrival we immediately submerged into the SSK distribution on the philology campus. We then made plans for the following day and went on to the economics campus to invite Hungarians to come to our event the for Wednesday evening. At night we started calling back SSK students to set up meetings during the day.

Hungarian students in Transylvania are different from those in Hungary. There are about 1 Hungarian to every 30 Romanian student on average. They are either very proud of their Hungarian descent and thus shun those in Hungary because they think we are not Hungarian enough, or they are very shy and are reluctant to even admit to being a Hungarian. So for us standing at the entrance of the campuses and ask the students walking by whether they are Hungarian or not yielded some interesting, even slightly extreme reactions. It is a bit like walking up to people on the campuses of Budapest and asking them whether they are gypsy or not. Still, we had to find the Hungarians. It turned out there is hardly no events being done among the Hungarian students of Cluj in their language that is advertised openly on the campuses.

The next night we had the “4 basic personality types” event. We expected that hopefully 60-70 people will come. Well, 5 minutes before the start they still kept coming by the dozens! We had about 110 people pack the small room, many were standing, even in the hallway outside the door listening. Wow! Of all the 110 people we had over 105 highly positive responses. Students are hungry.

I have other wonderful stories to tell you, like one student’s story: Lóránt, who accepted Christ as me and my disciple shared the Gospel with him, but I have to go now. Please look for more soon... :)

K