With your money and prayers in 2014, God allowed us to do these things, mostly in Hungary:
- Pay our bills: rent, utilities, food, medical care, insurance, and taxes.
- Hire an immigration lawyer to get residency permits through June, 2016.
- Host our local church’s (Karen’s) youth group every Friday for 2.5 years—until they outgrew our living room in March.
- Travel to America for several weeks in July and August.
- Help Karen to complete successfully her Hungarian phase of life, including:—
- Finishing high school (and paying lots of special senior-year expenses).
- Singing in a praise band with the associated travel expenses.
- Filling in applications to five American universities—and the financial aid forms.
- Being admitted to William & Mary, a great school thats fits her well.
- Sending her to a two-week conference for foreign-grown missionary kids who were headed to America for college.
- Moving her in to the dorm and attending orientation for students and parents.
- Stay connected through technology.
- Deepen relationships with fellow teachers, friends, neighbors, other missionaries, students, baseball kids, believers, non-believers, Deaf people, hearing people…
- Finish the essential elements of the Little League baseball field.
- Maintain the baseball field throughout the year.
- Look for a future full-sized baseball field.
- Enter a baseball team in the 2014 Hungarian Little League.
- Hold a weekend baseball-softball camp in September.
- Have two Baseball Fun Days for adults.
- Attend a sports missions conference.
- Attend and help lead a Deaf camp.
- Teach Hungarian Deaf kids English.
- Help and encourage the Deaf church in Budapest, where our two non-believing sign-language teachers from 2002 have begun to attend.
- Help resolve a conflict between a Deaf missionary couple and the Hungarian Baptist Union.
- Develop curriculum (about life more than English), teach high-schoolers, and grade their surprisingly interesting essays.
- Worship and serve with a missions-minded church in Vác.
- Help support a Hungarian missionary family in Budapest.
- Participate in retreats for spiritual and emotional renewal.
- Travel to Croatia for Fall Break, where we visited two families for mutual encouragement.
- Talk about life with our private English students.
- Support our English-teaching company when we don’t have enough students.
- Host many guests in our home.
- Learn to manage time and priorities better.
- Worry less.
- Give thanks more.
- Pray for others.
- Grow nearer to God and see where he’s working.
We can’t thank you enough!!!
