tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212126342010-02-04T12:30:46.116+01:00A place where you can get to know us more as well as to interact with our thoughts, experiences, joys, frustrations, and prayers that come along with our journey of serving Christ in Hungary.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13112106308442793160noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-19436562710232139912010-01-25T22:57:00.004+01:002010-01-26T02:26:56.789+01:00

Dear Friends: Next week we hit the road for our family's first 3-month road trip!! Hungarians love the idea of Route 66 and the open road (or so I keep trying to tell Zsofi!), and who am I to stand in the way of our daughters' yet undreamt dreams?! :-) We will be visiting supporters and supporting churches in Texas and the Midwest, and in the midst of all our travels, I will also

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We would like to wish you a peaceful, joyful Christmas. Tomorrow our little family will sit on a plane and we will fly to Washington DC to celebrate with John's family. Thank you for your support, prayers and love for us in 2009. May your 2010 be filled with God's blessings!Love, John, Zsofi, Eszti and Elizabeth

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What comes to your mind when you think about mission?Long trips...?Eating something weird...?Serving Christ in a different culture...?Being blessed and to bless many...?It would be really interesting if we could collect all the associations because I am sure we all have a little different ideas, pictures but let me share with you what it meant to me during the week we served together with a

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I recently updated our web gallery. Check out some new pictures of our ministry and family.http://www.hungarywilsons.com/photogallery/index.phpEnjoy and we love to get pictures from you too!<!--Session data--><!--Session data--><!--Session data--><!--Session data-->

Zsofihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971297064136567747noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-81355154480614395482009-10-17T09:13:00.005+02:002009-10-17T18:55:18.512+02:00

I have been asking John hundred times to write a blog entry, he seems to be willing but rather slow accomplishing this (my mom-in-law whose maiden name is Quick always says Wilson has s-l-o-w in it :-). But so here am I again giving you a little update about our ministry and hopefully we can all enjoy John's perspective sometime in the near future. (I hope you are reading this dear John. :-)So we

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Eszti turned 3 today. What a nice thing to celebrate that God made her and gave her to us! She wanted some trains and a bear on her cake. So that is what she got. :-) My favorite part of the day was in the morning when after Eszti's favorite breakfast (pancakes), John and I prayed for her and blessed her. It was such a precious time. In the afternoon we had guests and some nice presents, like the

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Here is our United World Mission Hungary Team. They are a wonderful group of people and we feel blessed being able to serve with them. One part of this group works at a Christian School, where the children of the missionaries study and the other group is the church planting facilitation team on which John and I serve. <!--Session data-->

Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13112106308442793160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-14484760556019808612009-08-16T22:13:00.002+02:002009-08-16T22:25:25.778+02:00

Here you can see some of what goes into making a newsletter.First you write it...Then you make it ready for the long journey over the ocean...It is all about team work. :-)

Zsofihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971297064136567747noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-71476675096351030352009-06-29T07:12:00.003+02:002009-06-29T07:22:10.751+02:00

One of Eszti's favorite games nowadays is putting Daddy to sleep. Eszti pretends to be Daddy and Daddy is Eszti. Daddy gets the normal bed time routine. He gets something to drink, Eszti tells him a story, she prays with him, holds his hands and then sings to him. Then she leaves the room. Daddy is peacefully sleeping on the couch. Eszti gives him further instructions from the other room:"Now you

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This is a picture of our UWM team video shooting. The video is going to be a brief introduction of our work and team here in Hungary and I am really curious how it is going to turn out. I told John, that I am probably gonna be horrified when I will hear my own voice (you know... it sounds so different than what I hear on the inside :-). But the shooting was a lot of fun and I am thankful that we

Zsofihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971297064136567747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-83039158290565408582009-05-27T22:00:00.001+02:002009-05-27T22:05:56.899+02:00

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We are going on an Alpha weekend again. For those of you who would like to, please pray that God will work in all of our hearts, that the guests who come will know God's love and will have a fantastic time.The last course was such an encouragement to all of those involved. We had a great team debriefing afterward and it amazes me how God not only blessed every single guest but also every person

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Some of you have been patiently waiting for the pictures of our renovated flat. Here they are!!!Make sure you leave a comment and let us know which room is your favorite. :-)Our living roomThe bedroomOur kitchen... once the hall.For more check out our web page gallery:http://www.hungarywilsons.com/photogallery/?album=Home_Sweet_Home

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Dear Friends: One of our most affecting experiences since moving into the heart of Budapest was hearing the church-bells resound late Saturday night followed by the candlelight Easter processional. What a beautiful (and powerfully symbolic) announcement of Christ's resurrection in the midst of this darkened world!Second Round (of many...) Shortly before Easter we held a celebration dinner for

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Zsofihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971297064136567747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-80824826007233325842009-03-31T19:41:00.004+02:002009-04-01T07:36:04.421+02:00

Well, I have some exciting news. First of all we moved into our new flat!!! I have been wanting to take pictures to show you, but then I always think about all the things I would like to decorate or add. But I realize that it might take some more months if I wait for everything to be exactly how I imagine so I have decided that I will share the work in progress. So keep looking for some pictures

Zsofihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971297064136567747noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-33432262277924019192009-03-18T21:28:00.003+01:002009-03-19T15:11:36.791+01:00

John, his mom, Elizabeth and me went to the Alpha weekend. For those of you who don't know Alpha, it is a 10 week course introducing Christianity. It is a wonderful way of reaching people with God's love and to have in depth discussions about the Christian basic teachings. The weekend was great. John did a good job leading it and it was a pleasure for me to be part of it. During this course I was

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Thank you all who thought of us or prayed for the second Alpha evening yesterday. It went great. I (Zsofi) stayed home with the girls and kept praying for the evening between diaper changing and book reading. I could not wait to find out how it went and was so happy to hear how nicely everything turned out. The dinner was delicious (Hungarian gulyas) with good table conversations, the teaching

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After much planning and work, Thursday evening we launched the first Alpha course in our neighborhood. The Alpha team has done a great job with preparing the place, the food and creating a very warm, welcoming atmosphere. We had 11 guests and we expect more to come next week.There was an older couple, both above 70 years old, who seemed to really enjoy themselves. Before they left, they assured

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This coming Thursday we are going to launch our first Alpha course in our neighborhood. For those of you who don't know Alpha, it is a 10 week course with basic Christian teachings, shared meals and discussion groups. John has poured a lot of his heart and energy into starting this course and so I hope it will be a great success. I will try to keep you up to date throughout the course about how

Zsofihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971297064136567747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-29425389311936447862008-12-21T14:55:00.003+01:002008-12-21T22:20:41.455+01:00

Well, our advent season has been really busy but thank to God I had the time to do some creative things too like making some Christmas postcards. I hope you like it. Thanks for reading our blog and please if you have a Christmas letter send us a copy if you have not done so yet. We love to hear from you. Merry Christmas!

Zsofihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971297064136567747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-1297961900541786962008-12-19T14:22:00.002+01:002008-12-19T15:13:25.618+01:00

This year we helped again organizing a charity sale. The sale turned out to be bigger than last year, more people donated things and more people came to buy. The income from the sale is going to be given as Christmas gifts to poor families. Elizabeth was the joungest and cutest (next to Eszti) charity sale helper. :)

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Dear Friends,Breaking one of the fundamental rules of Thanksgiving, we roasted a duck instead of a turkey (turkey is expensive here, plus it's hard to find a whole bird). However, Zsofi's homemade pecan pie more than made up for it and was a big hit with our neighbor who joined us for dinner!Two things that we are particularly thankful for this year are the birth of our second precious daughter,

Zsofihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971297064136567747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-78621551886933689352008-11-24T12:55:00.002+01:002008-11-24T13:13:22.576+01:00

It has been over a month when we brought Elizabeth home from the hospital. Sometimes I look at them and think how blessed I am to have two beautiful daughters. They are great sisters too. Eszti fell in love with Eliza and even though Eliza is not showing many signs of affection yet, I am sure she will love her older sister. Eszti helps with changing her diaper, burping her, she sings to her, when

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