tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:20:41 +0000A 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.http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John)Blogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-2942538931193644786Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:55:00 +00002008-12-21T22:20:41.455+01:00Well, 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! http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/12/merry-christmas-boldog-karcsonyt-frohe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-129796190054178696Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:22:00 +00002008-12-19T15:13:25.618+01:00This 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. :)http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/12/update-on-charity-sale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-9008787982846082610Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:01:00 +00002008-11-30T15:07:47.306+01:00Dear 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 http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/11/our-email-update-november.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-7862155188693368935Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:55:00 +00002008-11-24T13:13:22.576+01:00It 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, whenhttp://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/11/one-month-two-cuties-three-hours-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-4351804238209789367Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:26:00 +00002008-11-23T22:32:02.622+01:00After some technical difficulties, HungaryWilsons.com is back up and running!  Sorry for any inconvenience (especially to those of you who check it everyday).  Our monthly email update will be forthcoming.http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/11/website-outage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-1237583333765720934Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:33:00 +00002008-10-20T22:20:59.328+02:00Hi Everyone! My name is Elizabeth Johanna Wilson, I am six days old and I want to share with you the story of how I entered this world. I was getting ready on Sunday to make my big trip, so I packed all my stuff and was kicking mommy a lot to let her know that it was getting time. We had a little sleep first and then at 2:33 a.m., I kicked so hard that mommy’s water broke. She woke up, but http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/10/hi-everyone-my-name-is-elizabeth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-6049416681331742945Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:40:00 +00002008-09-21T20:02:54.482+02:00Here are some of the cute things Eszti said recently. I stand in the kitchen, preparing something, she runs to me and says: "Mommy, I grew up!" She is talking to Grandpa and tells him that she is going to "Auchan" (a big shopping mall close by). My Dad asks back: "What are you going to do in Auchan?" "I am going to study." says Eszti "What are you going to study?" asks Grandpa. "The Bible" was http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/09/quotes-from-cutie-pie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-5475864287811548995Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:41:00 +00002008-09-08T12:49:02.556+02:00Lajos, a pastor we have been working with, called me last week and asked me if I could make a poster for a Friday afternoon teenager club. So I talked to my brother who is really gifted in web design and together we have created this poster. I am so proud of my brother. Don't you think it looks great? He is also the one who took the picture that is in the background. http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/09/lajos-pastor-we-have-been-working-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-2275379977274518265Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:32:00 +00002008-09-08T12:40:42.971+02:00Dear Friends, As summer winds down and we prepare for an action-packed autumn here in Hungary, we took some time to reflect on the highlights of our summer. Here are a few of them: English Camps Recently John started helping out with a church in Bicske and had a great time working with the pastor planning and organizing an evangelistic English language camp. And since the team of American http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/09/our-email-update-august.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-7948005174986199589Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:49:00 +00002008-07-29T14:51:16.906+02:00 Isn’t that a cute little baby? :-) What do you think is it going to be a girl or a boy? We still don't know so we are counting the guesses. :-) http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/07/newest-picture-of-baby-wilson.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-3149906925779917245Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:54:00 +00002008-07-23T18:40:56.147+02:00This week we are at a Children’s camp with the group of teachers I was telling you about in the previous post. This is Eszti’s first camp experience by the way, and she is loving it. Today when I went to pick her up at the toddler’s group, she said she wanted to stay with the children instead. :-)The camp is going really well. It is an English-Bible Camp and there are a lot of kids who have neverhttp://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/07/summer-camp-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-416738803557452183Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:12:00 +00002008-07-23T18:25:10.250+02:00 This is a picture of a group of young people, who came on a short-term mission trip to Hungary to serve in 4 different summer camps. John has been helping organizing 3 of these camps and we had the pleasure to get to know this group. Some of them stayed with us this last weekend and I am really glad they could come and serve Hungarian local churches through these camps. It is great to see these http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/07/summer-adventures.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-5010921004333756498Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:04:00 +00002008-06-28T10:12:18.845+02:00 Dear Friends,     Before jumping into all that is happening this summer, we wanted to say thank you for such an amazing response to our email update last month! Whereas our ministry account was in some trouble at the beginning of May, people began praying and we were shocked at how many people made special contributions to our ministry. Consequently, though we will need some monthly http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/06/our-email-update-june-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-2374314249771222090Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:29:00 +00002008-06-16T21:31:48.456+02:00Here you can see the gift that I made (with some help from mommy) for Daddy. For me he is the best Daddy in the whole world because he is so big and strong and smart and he loves me so much. He always shares his food with me and even gives me yummy things that mommy would not. He takes me out on special daddy-daughter dates and shows me things I have never seen before. He loves to hold me and http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/06/fathers-day-thoughts-from-eszti.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-6898026144674410989Tue, 27 May 2008 16:41:00 +00002008-05-27T19:28:32.097+02:00In Hungary the last Sunday of May is Children's Day. It is a day when kids can do all kinds of fun stuff. Our church planting team organized together with a housing association a Children's Day festival in our area. It turned out to be a great event. We had wonderful weather and were pleased to see how many children came. They had so much fun playing games, listening to a concert, getting their http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/05/childrens-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-8215824656852050179Sat, 17 May 2008 16:21:00 +00002008-05-17T19:27:29.520+02:00A closing update on the Alpha course. We have finished our 20 week course not so long ago. The final session of Alpha is a Celebration Meal where the guests can share there experiences, testimonies from our time together. It was very encouraging to hear the stories of those who were strengthened in their walk with Christ or even started it at some point during the course. An extra bonus to our http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/05/alpha-course-finished.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-7623804027715325912Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:46:00 +00002008-04-28T18:16:09.745+02:00Today I read on my baby site that our little one in my tummy is the size of an apple this week. Being an apple lover I asked myself what kind of apple it would be, since there are considerable differences in the size of apples. But no matter what size, it is surely a sweet one. :-) Here is the first picture:   And also some from the big sister:  My good friend Ali I love to work in the garden http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/04/sweet-apple.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-4982885797684325961Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:06:00 +00002008-04-24T12:04:38.963+02:00I recently attended a Saturation Church Planting Conference that John organized (thanks to my mom for taking care of Eszti so I could go!). We had missionaries and nationals from different countries. Some have been on their field for over 10 years some just arrived less than a year ago. We shared our experiences, had good discussions and tried to figure out how to better fulfill the Great http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/04/church-planting-conference.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-6855413854517119926Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:17:00 +00002008-04-01T11:49:11.321+02:00Hi Everyone! Here is a little update from me. Well, I am 1,5 years old now and I feel like a big girl. I say more and more words, some of them only understandable to my family or even just to myself. I enjoy spending time with other children and can't wait to see all my friends on Sunday at church. Since my grandpa talks so much on his mobile phone I started to use everything that looks similar http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/03/update-from-eszti.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-7934749344714191723Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:05:00 +00002008-03-19T14:05:15.129+01:00Yesterday was a mournful day in the Hungary Wilsons' household. Not because Zsofi couldn't find any chocolate or I couldn't watch Tiger's putt at Bay Hill, but rather because my brother Jeff had to fly back to Los Angeles after his 2-week visit. Even little Eszti was heartbroken, calling out all afternoon, "Je-sss, Je-sss," hoping that somehow he would come back. (She hasn't learned how to makehttp://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/03/jeffs-visit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-124277396258533743Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:27:00 +00002008-02-21T20:49:43.930+01:00 John told me the other day that I should write an entry about something psychological. I told him, that I was not sure who would be interested in reading about that, but he encouraged me that there would be some people and he also said that a blog is more a self-disclosure than a dialoge anyway. Then he launched into a longer explanation about how self-disclosure (rather than a dialoge) has beenhttp://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/02/what-about-bob.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-899143697050788249Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:32:00 +00002008-02-09T15:53:49.972+01:00As many of you have probably heared we are in the middle of renovation crazyness. Both John and I are very excited about our first real home and can not wait to move in. This still might take a while because right now the flat more looks like a war zone. The building is 7 stories high and over 70 years old. When we started to take down the wallpaper, it has not been 1 or 2 layers but up to 5 http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/02/antique-wallpapers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-2194707028075505254Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:59:00 +00002008-01-31T09:20:56.701+01:00 I wanted to give you a little update on the Alpha ESOL course John and I are part of. The course has been going really well, with 70 attendees at the beginning and 50-40 who became regular participants. This is a pretty large group for an Alpha course. We have a nice group of leaders (host in the Alpha vocabulary) and it has been fun to meet with them every week to prepare. Since the city, wherehttp://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/01/first-time-alpha-esol-in-hungary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-3390788708438746660Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:48:00 +00002008-01-18T23:36:28.302+01:00Have you ever taken some time to sit down and write out a vision statement for you life?  Yesterday, Zsofi and I wrote six.  That's because we have six competing visions for our lives.  No, not really.  We actually just enjoyed the process so much that we couldn't stop with just one... Why all the vision statements?  Well, one of the exciting developments this past year has been the addition of http://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2008/01/strategic-planning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212634.post-5101817750540790975Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:08:00 +00002007-12-26T11:44:17.479+01:00Both the maker and the way of preparing are unorthodox by the way. Normally here in Hungary around Christmas time grandmothers make all kinds of home-made sweets. One of the favorites are the Hungarian walnut or poppy-seed rolls. They are actually kind of hard to make. It is almost an art to get the dough to the right consistency so that they don't explode and look like volcanoes. John definitelyhttp://www.hungarywilsons.com/blog/2007/12/unorthodox-way-of-making-hungarian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Zsofi)4