Goose Days

It's amazing where God leads us when we least expect it.  Saturday Mike went to a 90-year anniversary service at the Free Christian Church here in Debrecen.  We have relationships with the pastors and several others in the church and he wanted to join the crowd in celebrating such a wonderful milestone.  What a surprise it was when he met Pastor Teo Bulzan!  Pastor Bulzan is the director of the Pentecostal Holiness Churches in Romania.  We work closely with him regarding the Open Bible Church in Gherla.  His son is also the director of INSTE in Romania.  What we did not know is that the Free Christian Church is affiliated with the Pentecostal Holiness Churches.  In fact, the president of the Pentecostal Holiness Churches of America was the guest speaker.  Pastor Bulzan introduced him to Mike after the service.  He mentioned that he knows former Open Bible president Jeff Farmer and will be meeting with our current president Randall Bach later this week.

Then on Sunday evening we went to the Trinity Baptist Church to hear a fellow missionary speak.  Mike was able to talk with some of the church leaders after the service for a few minutes about INSTE.  They are very excited about it.  In fact, one of the men said, "Why have we not heard about this before?"

We are thankful that God continues to open opportunities for the expansion of INSTE in Hungary.  We are also thankful for three new groups that have started in the past few weeks.

But life is not all work.  Sunday for lunch we went to see what was going on at Goose Days in the central square.  There were lots of vendors there, so we looked around and then got in the long line to order food.  Mike enjoyed goose kolbász (sausage) and Nancy tried goose stuffed cabbage.  The food was worth the wait.  Yummy!

Goose Day festival in downtown Debrecen

The choices of food we had for lunch- all with goose meat