Students intitiating evangelism

Last Tuesday some of our students organized an outreach in one of largest dorms of Bp. They came up with the idea, they did the promotion, they did the whole program. Awesome! Julcsi was there to be told what to do by our students! SHE LOVED IT!!!

Guys' Bible Study

A week ago we started a Bible study for all the guys in our movement. Why is that important?

We had small groups before, many of them. But:

- they were all lead by a Crusade staff

- new students had a hard time getting involved that way

- growth was slow in numbers and spiritual depth, and spiritual multiplication was not happening

So, we thought we would try a new form: gather all the guys at the same time, and have fellowship for one hour, and than divide into small groups LED BY OUR STUDENT LEADERS for another hour! And students responded well! There is something in joining a larger group, and taking leadership when others step out in faith together with you! My disciple Sanyi is leading one of the groups, a very good challenge for him!

Last night we had our second gathering, and it was just great to see our student leaders leading small groups, and ministering to others. We really hope that this strategic step will lead to more spiritual leadership among our guys, more students getting involved in discipleship, and more growth in our movement.

To me this is a key area to help our ministry grow to be a student led movement, a mature spiritual movement among the students in Budapest!

Wednesday nights

Our weekly meeting is a great gathering place for our student leaders, for students searching for God, and for students who just think this is a great place to hang out. More and more of these students choose our weekly meeting as their Wednesday night program. Some numbers:

2006: 15 students average
2007: 30 students average
2008: 45 students average
2009-2010: 70-80 students average

It is certainly FUN to see this growth! It is great momentum for our movement! And we always talk about GOD, who Jesus was, and what the Bible has to say about life. God is drawing students closer to Him through relationships!

Fruits of FéK in Transylvania

Last week we lead a team of 8 back to Cluj, Romania. Three staff and five students set out from Budapest, Hungary, For four of our students, this was the first time leaving our borders on a mission trip. Our goal was to help the campus ministry in Cluj and that our students would get a wider perspective and experience of missions as well.

Our journey was paved with God's blessings. Our students took the initiative and boldly stepped out of their confort zones. As a result of it we had about 50 one-on-one evangelistic conversations with hungarian university students. many came closer to God, two trusted Christ: Juli prayed with one of Julcsi's disciples, Zsofi; Tihamér prayed with Kalman.

About 170 new students came to our outreach on Tuesday night and we were able to contact most of them on the phone as well afterwards. Our relationship with the believers and Campus students in Cluj grew as well this week. It is a special joy for us to have witnessed how much the Kingdom grows through FEK: We had three evangelistic and follow-up trainings, three follow-up meetings, one Bible study for guys, and even an outreach among Romanian students. Another joy was to see students from local churches get excited and boldly step out in reaching other students.

God does have a plan with Transylvania!

Thank you for praying for the ministry there.


Out team with some local students

Julcsi with "our" girls

With local Hungarian students

Outreach among Hungarians (170 came)


Csaba, Kálmán and Tihamér at his first follow-up meeting...

Week of Evangelism with students from Michigan

On March 1-6 a team from Michigan visited Hungary again to serve with us. Even in the begginning of the trip there was spiritual warfare, because a snowstorm split the team up in two and one half arrive 1 day the other 2 days late. Inspite of these events God truly blessed our week: english classes, dorm outreaches, weekly meeting, evangelistic conversations filled up the week and were going well. The American team attracted many students and helped them come closer to God. By the end of the week several of them were thinking about joining us for a STINT year.

Kalman's team held Short Film outreaches in 2 dorms. The evening's program resulted in deep conversations and Kalman had the chance to speak to the students about the message and reality of God through the short film titled Butterfly Circus. Julcsi's team held this event in another dorm as well.

Pray for the 55 students attended these events, several of them came to our weekly meetings!

He is my King!

Girls

I'm very thankful for my girls I lead. I see in all of them the desire for God and that they would like to give Him their all. Lilla and Zsofi leads others as well. Csilla, Andi, Erika and Zsuzsa are new believers, have lots of questions. Pray for them to grow in Christ in the face of fights. We organize a girl-guy day on the 6th of February with talks and discussions about love, roles and relationships. This area is a major battlefield for most of the girls. Pray that they come and they would be impressed by this day!
Julcsi

Prayer...

New semester starts... can't wait what God will do. We're continuing in committed prayer. Both staffs and students experienced during the last semester how regular prayer transforms us and our environment. We have two prayer web pages: one of them is for personal and ministry prayer requests, the other is a prayer calendar where we can sign up for a day when we pray for the other page's requests. During exam time we write our exam dates to pray for each other's exams. In the next semester we'll organize a prayer night and will learn about fasting, from the end of March we'll have a month long prayer chain for a spiritual revival in Hungary. We'll also invite other believers, Churches.

Bible Course (IBS) and Women's Conference in January

Since we have a slower paced month in January most of our conferences are scheduled for this month. Most of us staff did two courses (Romans and John) in two weeks. A great overview, even though two weeks is way too short to walk through these books! I certainly have a deeper understanding and could dive even deeper in them.

Yesterday Julcsi left for a women's conference for all the staff women in our ministry. They will spend 4 days getting refreshed in the Word, having fellowship with God and each other. I am praying this would be an inspiring time for Julcsi and for the other ladies. I am at home and going to spend some time with my disciples as well as with planning for the coming months.

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)