Wednesday, July 29, 2009

SpeakOut 2009 and Transylvania

Unity: 2Corinthians 3,18 – „...transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” We experienced the reality of this verse. Different pasts, cultures, personalities, still, we were one in Christ, in the passion of winning students for God's glory, and build them through the power of the Spirit. This unity glorified God.

Prayer: one of the evenings we were talking about the spiritual battle (Ephesians 6,12-13). Everybody felt it: physical (there were many viruses in the camp), the afternoons and conversations about spiritual things were tiring socially and emotionally. On the first week we organized a night of prayer. Every room prayed for 15 minutes for the campers by name and for the spiritual barriers in their lives. We had a candle that we passed on to each other, room to room. It arrived in the morning to the last room. It meant that everyone stayed up. This prayer-chain had great power, it was a big experience personally.

Cities: we sang many times “God of this city”, which says “there is no one like our God, He is the God of the city, a Lord of our nation, and greater things are still to be done”. We experienced this. In Keszthely (where SpeakOut is organized) over the past years, a large number of students heard the gospel, there are partnerships with a local church, and a student bible study group. This year a relationship begun with the mayor, a police officer, and the director of the local beach. Similar things happened in Miercurea Ciuc (Transylvania), where we spent a very blessed week. Students were very open to the gospel, 16 of them became believers, they may join to the local Baptist church. This church is very mission centered, some students came with us to share the gospel.

Stories: Erika came to Speak Out! Julcsi was in Transylvania that week. She is growing slowly in her relationship with Christ, it's hard for her to believe that God will develop her life. Kalman's disciple, Sanyi invited his brother and his brother's friend to the first week of SO. They joined us in going out to share the gospel. It was good to see how much they love God. In the last week Julcsi and two students talked with a girl named Csilla. For the first time she was ignoring, but they begun to pray for her, and talked a lot. By the end of the week, she didn't want to be with the other campers any more, she had a lot of questions, and on the last night she decided to give a chance to God. When she arrived home, she realized her friendships and love relationship are unstable, and God can be the only sure thing in her life. She begun to go to a Church. She is just one of the 67 students who became believers during the 3 weeks. Praise God!

Please pray for this four things (unity, prayer, cities, stories) give thanks, and ask God to continue his work!