Edina and Fruzsi
God is working and he wants to use all of us. He seeks to heal the wounded and save the lost. The following story is an evidence of the love of our Heavenly Father. Fruzsi was Edina's disciple back in Hungary. She is an orphan who was raised by her brother. When she became a teenager she was looking for a summer English camp. She came to SpeakOut, the one we've organized back in 2011. Later that fall she returned to our student retreat where Gabor was the speaker. Gabor shared about the holiness of God and Him being the source of our joy. That message deeply touched her. She saw John 17 lived out in our community which couldn't be more different than the environment of her high school. One evening she turned to God in tears and asked forgiveness of her sins. She started to grow in her new faith and was faithfully serving every summer as a staff at SpeakOut. In 2014-15 she joined Edina's discipleship group. In 2017 she went to university in Denmark to study tourism and hospitality. Later she went to a mission trip to India to share the gospel with college students in New-Delhi. She met Robert, a young Christian Indian student. That relationship developed to engagement, but due to covid they are restricted to travel and to see each other.
It is amazing to see how God redeemed Fruzsi's life from being an orphan to become engaged in mission and now giving her a Christian family.
Fruzsi is asking prayer for her visa problems and paperwork to be resolved so they could travel and prepare for their wedding and that they would be able to get married next year.
WIDE OPEN DOORS
IN GROWING LEADERSHIP AND STAFF TEAM
Joseph, Tom, Rick, Todd, Larry, Amy, Marvin, Daniel, Bonnie, Dan, Dave, Scott, Michael, Gabor and Mark - Our National Leadership Team and Advisory Board met in Kansas City at the end of August! OUR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP TEAM (NLT) STRATEGY RETREAT went very well! The unity was felt and the wisdom God gave us was deep. God blessed out efforts and OUR STAFF TEAM GREW TO 92 FULL-TIME STAFF IN 44 CITIES!
2. For church-planting and partnership
We are helping planting churches with the Kale Heywet Church Denomination - the largest Ethiopian denomination in the U.S. We were hosting an evangelism workshop for the General Secretary and his key leaders. We will host an in-person training between November 19-21 in DC for 20 Ethiopian pastors.
3. For ‘Youth at the Threshold of Life’
YTL PROGRESS. We've trained missionaries and educators in JAMAICA on how to use YTL in their context. God opened amazing doors for them in the public school system. Also, we had been invited to host a YTL symposium in Jamaica. God also opened doors for YTL in Florida (more about that later).
4. For ‘Sent 6:7’ multiplication trainings
In September we've hosted a Sent 6:7 group-multiplication training.