Tuesday was our first actual full day ... and it was full...
We had out first university English class at 9a.m. so we had to be over to Corvinus (the economics university) at about 8:45. Because I've been to Budapest before, they left me in charge of delivering everyone safely via the two trams and the walking. I'm glad Mr Fed Ex (Putman) was with us as well though I would have gone the wrong way on the one tram.
We got to the university on time and had a little prep and prayer before. Our basic role was to be the reputation of FEK. The English teachers all ask FEK to bring the Americans in their classroom so their students can practice English. They are allowed to introduce the organization and talk about activities. But, there are certain places that FEK can only go if they have specific recommendations from teachers. These teachers know FEK through the times that we're there and they like us so, they recommend us to be allowed into dorms and universities with our group.
We went to 6 classes today between 9 and 1:30.
On the 5th floor of the Corvinus university new building looking down.
The snack bar and locker area between classes - can you guess it was a rainy day?
In one of the English classes and then chatting in the hall between classes. We found out more about Liz and the Stinter program that she's in with Campus -- its great that they have the extra help like her to work in the dorms and campuses.
The outside of the old Corvinus building. This was the only building the first year I was there.
Tammie and Jodi doing Random Evangelism which we did for about 2 hours in the afternoon.
We went to a new dorm, Ratay dorm (Colegium) for our evening meeting. Katya, one of the Campus students, moved to this dorm this year and got the room for us to meet in. There were actually about 20 American foreign exchange students in the dorm so, it was quite funny knocking out doors to hand out invitaions and to hear "What d'ya want!" Not typical!
We started the evening with a few games and prizes. I had some old youth group games and Mark did Fed Ex trivia.
These are some of the Americans that came for the eveing - The girl in the red sweatshirt was from Alaska and the girl in the stripes was from Massachusetts.
Flora trying to act cool in a Fed Ex hat and a Speak Out shirt?
Mark giving his presentation -- he was AMAZING! He is definitely one of the best presenters that I've ever heard at BHHP! He was clear and made wonderful business points but tied it in extremely well to his faith and to God! At one point, while he was presenting, Laci leaned over to me and asked "Did they come with you, right?" I answered yes and he just nodded and said "Thank you!"
Mark had a chance to talk further with about 4 of the students after the lecture and one of them asked a lot of business questions and then said that he had some tough questions... he proceeded to ask "so how can you know how to be a Christian?" I believe that Mark is going to try and meet up with him again in the next few days.
Beth from Memphis and one of the Hungarian students.
Raday Colegium (dorm). It was an absolutely beautiful old building in a beautiful section of town. It had all been newly redone as well so it was the nicest dorm I've been in since I've started coming to Budapest!
Please pray for this dorm as there seemed to be a lot of openess here. Pray especially for the positive contacts that Mark and Jayne made today. I know that it was an encouragment and blessing to them and I pray that they'll be able to meet up again before they leave and get these guys connected to FEK.
We had out first university English class at 9a.m. so we had to be over to Corvinus (the economics university) at about 8:45. Because I've been to Budapest before, they left me in charge of delivering everyone safely via the two trams and the walking. I'm glad Mr Fed Ex (Putman) was with us as well though I would have gone the wrong way on the one tram.
We got to the university on time and had a little prep and prayer before. Our basic role was to be the reputation of FEK. The English teachers all ask FEK to bring the Americans in their classroom so their students can practice English. They are allowed to introduce the organization and talk about activities. But, there are certain places that FEK can only go if they have specific recommendations from teachers. These teachers know FEK through the times that we're there and they like us so, they recommend us to be allowed into dorms and universities with our group.
We went to 6 classes today between 9 and 1:30.
On the 5th floor of the Corvinus university new building looking down.
The snack bar and locker area between classes - can you guess it was a rainy day?
In one of the English classes and then chatting in the hall between classes. We found out more about Liz and the Stinter program that she's in with Campus -- its great that they have the extra help like her to work in the dorms and campuses.
The outside of the old Corvinus building. This was the only building the first year I was there.
Tammie and Jodi doing Random Evangelism which we did for about 2 hours in the afternoon. Mark and Jayne had some great conversations at this time as well and Mark was actually able to lead one guy to the Lord! He went over the whole gospel with him and the guy said he wanted that and so Mark helped him pray! I believe he'll try to meet with him again in a few days.
We went to a new dorm, Ratay dorm (Colegium) for our evening meeting. Katya, one of the Campus students, moved to this dorm this year and got the room for us to meet in. There were actually about 20 American foreign exchange students in the dorm so, it was quite funny knocking out doors to hand out invitaions and to hear "What d'ya want!" Not typical!We started the evening with a few games and prizes. I had some old youth group games and Mark did Fed Ex trivia.
These are some of the Americans that came for the eveing - The girl in the red sweatshirt was from Alaska and the girl in the stripes was from Massachusetts.
Flora trying to act cool in a Fed Ex hat and a Speak Out shirt?
Mark giving his presentation -- he was AMAZING! He is definitely one of the best presenters that I've ever heard at BHHP! He was clear and made wonderful business points but tied it in extremely well to his faith and to God! At one point, while he was presenting, Laci leaned over to me and asked "Did they come with you, right?" I answered yes and he just nodded and said "Thank you!"
Mark had a chance to talk further with about 4 of the students after the lecture and one of them asked a lot of business questions and then said that he had some tough questions... he proceeded to ask "so how can you know how to be a Christian?" I believe that Mark is going to try and meet up with him again in the next few days.
Beth from Memphis and one of the Hungarian students.
Raday Colegium (dorm). It was an absolutely beautiful old building in a beautiful section of town. It had all been newly redone as well so it was the nicest dorm I've been in since I've started coming to Budapest!
Please pray for this dorm as there seemed to be a lot of openess here. Pray especially for the positive contacts that Mark and Jayne made today. I know that it was an encouragment and blessing to them and I pray that they'll be able to meet up again before they leave and get these guys connected to FEK. Also pray for the many people that have heard the gospel this week through random evangelism. I know Tammie and I talked to about 6 girls this afternoon through a survey program and then just asking if we could share with them what we believe about God. 5 girls who had a nominal idea of God 1 girl who was an atheist, heard the truth about Christ today. They all walked away saying basically thanks, but not interested, but they heard the gospel. Its a let down at first - but then you think - they heard the gospel and they have never heard it before! We did what we were supposed to do - please pray that what we all say to these students and the literature that we leave in their hands this week - that God would keep on working on their hearts and that His hand would be on them and they would come to know Him! Thats the excitement of BHHP!
This is sooo exciting! PTL ! You guys look like you do this "everyday" except it's in Hungary!!! :)
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