Hungarian-Speaking Day

Mike and Pastor Csaba discussing INSTE before about a dozen pastors

 We had an interesting day on Saturday.  That morning we met with a group of pastors from the Church of God in Hungary. Bishop Tenkely Csaba invited us to introduce the INSTE program to several pastors who were gathered here in Debrecen.  Mike was able to talk about INSTE in Hungarian (with a few prompts from Pastor Csaba) for about half an hour.  We are thankful that several of the pastors were interested in starting INSTE groups in the spring.


After lunch we drove an hour and a half to lead a new INSTE group in the village of Tomor.  These are brand-new believers who do not have an evangelical church in their village or in the neighboring villages.  It is exciting to be able to teach these dear people the basics of following Jesus.  They speak only Hungarian, though.  Our friend Zoli, who led these people to the Lord and who also speaks pretty good English, was able to help with the meeting this week.  Next week, however, he won't be there to help.  We are totally depending on the Lord!

The INSTE group meeting in Tomor

We are far from being able to speak the language fluently yet.  Saturday morning, Pastor Csaba corrected Mike's pronounciation of the word "level" as in First Level INSTE and Second Level INSTE.  Later, as we thought back on the morning, it dawned on us, that the way Mike had been pronouncing "level" sounded like the word for "holy."  It sounded like he was saying "First Holy INSTE" and "Second Holy INSTE."  INSTE is awesome, but we can't really call it holy!