About a day after I sent my last newsletter, I found out that I was not going to be moving to the place that I said I was going to.  Instead, I moved in with another of the Christians in his small apartment for two weeks.  While, I searched for a new place to live.  Now, I have my own apartment and things are looking up.  I still do not know how long I will stay at this apartment.  However, I know that I have to leave here by April, because the owner of the apartment wants to move in.  I do not think that I will ever get settled in. However, I will be here at least two months because I have already paid for two months’ rent.

A New Christian

 This past Wednesday, there was a new Christian born.  Her name is Tanya.  She is a colleague of one of the Christians, Nandor.  She is originally from Russia, but she speaks Hungarian well.  I have only met her because she does not speak English.  However, I hope to get to know her more as my Hungarian gets better.

The Church in Hungary

 With the beginning of September, the church in Debrecen started two new projects.  One is to read the whole Bible through in a year, actually ten months.  The other is to meet together three times a week.

 We decided that we would start in September and by the end of June read the Bible through.  This is something that we all thought would be good because many of the members are new Christians and they have never read most of the Bible.  This is a big task that is set before us.  We have a schedule where we read three Old Testament chapters a day and two chapters of the New Testament.  This will allow us to read all the Old Testament once, the New Testament twice, and the Gospels three times.  I think that this will help each of us to have a closer relationship to God and be better able to know what he wants from us.

 Along with this we also started to meet two more times a week.  We started meeting on Tuesdays to have a time of prayer and singing.  This is something that the Christians felt was needed to help them grow.  Then we also meet on Thursdays to have a Bible class.  In the Bible class, we discuss the things that we have read over the past week, to help each other better understand what the Bible is saying.

 Both of the projects are going to help us grow.  It will help each of us see what God’s will is and how we are to handle it correctly.  They will also help us to grow closer together and work better together.  Let me also challenge you to join us in the challenge of reading the Bible through in a year.  It will help you become closer to God.

Culture Corner

 This month, I want to focus our culture look at the Hungarian language.  This past week, I had my first two classes in Hungarian.  So now I am starting to learn the basic grammar and many more words than I knew before.  The one thing about learning Hungarian is that it is completely different from any other language in Europe.  Most of the languages of Europe are either Germanic, Romantic, or Slavic.  Hungarian is not any of the above.  It comes from a group of languages that originated in Mongolia and eastern Russia.  It does have some close relatives but they are not that close, such as Finnish and Estonian.
 One main thing that is different from English is that the word order is not fixed.  This means that you can change the order of the subject and the predicate.  Something that goes along with this is that it has many suffixes that let you know which word is the subject, verb, or object.

 A good thing about Hungarian is that is very easy to read aloud when you learn all the sounds.  This is because each letter has only one sound.  This is a rule and there are no exceptions.  Hungarian is a very phonetic language.
 In the work here, knowing the language is very important.  By knowing the language, I will be better equipped to teach the people of Hungary.  I will also be able to understand the needs of the people better.

Prayer Requests
 

Tanya as she grows in the faith.

The churches in Hungary

 Budapest
 Debrecen
 Miskolc
 Szolnok

The Bible Center in Szolnok, which is now open.