On the way to Bp from Sz early Monday morning
a trip
While Anna holds down the fort here at home, our two girls and I head to Hungary tomorrow to seek a teaching post for Joanna. This will be Rebecca’s first visit to Hungary. This is my regular winter trip to meet, encourage, and look at new ministries with whom CEO may partner. Our first destination is Szeged to meet with some friends and share in a church on Sunday. Early Monday we will train to Budapest. Our friends in Budapest have been busy setting up interviews in schools for Joanna, who graduates from Liberty this May with a degree in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). The girls and I will be together from Friday until Thursday morning when I will board my train south to Croatia where I will teach on Thursday night in our partner church in Vukovar. On Friday morning, two Hungarian and two American brothers will drive to Bosnia to visit some ministries to see how our different ministries might serve with them in future. Returning on Sat night to Vukovar, Croatia I will again speak at the Sunday service before driving to Hungary to catch a train which will take me back to Budapest for my flight next morning home to Virginia. Whew.
Prayers would be appreciated for:
· God’s steps and protection especially for these two ladies.
· a teaching position for Joanna of God’s choosing that will be a “platform” for her ministry in Budapest
· clarity for me as I get the chance to give His Word to encourage different churches, partners and friends both over coffee in cafes and from pulpits
· smooth connections on planes, trains and automobiles
· open doors and hearts in Muslim Bosnia where I have been wanting to visit for four years, now the door is wide open
· finances for the trip
· personally, I want some focused time with the Lord during this trip (yes those opportunities can be crafted into the day!). I wish to hear his voice afresh and be spiritually refreshed in the midst of traveling, in this I am very expectant!
I hope to post along the way…
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We are all part of the problem
Here’s an interesting quote that describes spiritually according to some eastern ways of thinking that if not carefully considered, could sound almost right :
“We are all part of the problem, and we are all part of the solution.”
this at first reading sounds pretty good…
but this is more accurate…
“We are all part of the problem. But only one man is the solution, and his name is Jesus.”
these ideas are from The Divine Embrace, the latest book I’m reading…
Webber does a great job of investigating the history, the theology and the practice of spirituality. I have been nodding my head a lot recognizing much of my own journey and those of fellow travelers… I’ll bet I’ll be sharing more along the journey from this work…
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two interesting movies
so on Sunday sweet Anna and I did this movie marathon as the snow then sleet fell to blanket the region…
these two movies were both war related (one from WWII and the other from WWI)… both told interesting stories…
“The Cou
ple” – one website says: “A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family’s safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.” This is an accurate synopsis except they are trying to get out of HUNGARY not Germany. It is a fairly slow moving film about sacrifice… about terror… The thing that really struck me was the opening has film from the modern Auschwitz as one might see it should a visit (as I get to do, yet again, this summer)… I do recommend this, but be prepared, it is about dialogue, not action.
ple” – one website says: “A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family’s safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.” This is an accurate synopsis except they are trying to get out of HUNGARY not Germany. It is a fairly slow moving film about sacrifice… about terror… The thing that really struck me was the opening has film from the modern Auschwitz as one might see it should a visit (as I get to do, yet again, this summer)… I do recommend this, but be prepared, it is about dialogue, not action.The second movie we watched was Joyeux Noël 
which takes place, as one web site describes it, in “France 1914. A moment of humanity that made history. “this website then says that “On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.” what this fails to tell us is that this is a story of love for brother, brothers, and lover which is manifested at great risk to self and comrade. Further, one of the most important moments to me is the midnight Mass in the middle of the battlefield. This was as powerful to me as “The Pianist” though in a different manner. Be prepared to do a lot of reading; the French and Germans speak their native tongue and the viewer is left to the subtitles… The Scot’s accents are pretty thick as well, but the message of the film is truly worth the work.
which takes place, as one web site describes it, in “France 1914. A moment of humanity that made history. “this website then says that “On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.” what this fails to tell us is that this is a story of love for brother, brothers, and lover which is manifested at great risk to self and comrade. Further, one of the most important moments to me is the midnight Mass in the middle of the battlefield. This was as powerful to me as “The Pianist” though in a different manner. Be prepared to do a lot of reading; the French and Germans speak their native tongue and the viewer is left to the subtitles… The Scot’s accents are pretty thick as well, but the message of the film is truly worth the work.A day of good film watching indeed.
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