Thursday, June 26, 2008

Hajdúszoboszló English camp

Once again it's been ages since I posted,  but so much is going on that I want to share about it when I have time...a little now, and hopefully more across the coming days.  So far this week has been absolutely wonderful!  A volunteer team from Cross Timber Baptist Church in Burleson, Texas--very dear friends--have come to help us with an outreach English camp in Hajdúszoboszló.  The camp is actually being done by the Baptist church there in the town, and we are helping since it's important to have native English speakers as the teachers.  We just finished with day #2 of 4, and it was great!  About 35 students came yesterday, and a few new ones came today.  Most of them are unchurched, some are "repeats" from the past couple of English camps held there, and some are kids of local church families.  We also have a couple of grown ups, which really wasn't expected, but we're very glad to have them.  Two of them are moms who came to observe what we're doing with their kids; as it turned out, we have formed a little learning group for them in the same room with the very youngest students.  A couple of the little ones know more English than the moms, and they occasionally come over and give mom a hand with the answers! 

I'll try to write more about it later, but I do want to post a few pictures now.  I don't have many on my camera, but I'm sure the team will have some good shots that they'll let me use as soon as we can  get them downloaded.

This first shot is of some of the students registering (Gary's hand is featured to the right, cutting string for name tags.)  We are very blessed to have some of the girls from the church in Kaba there helping with the registration.




Another shot of the registration process.



Here is Wendi working with the beginner class, with two moms looking on.  One of our terrific translators, Andi, is at the right in the photo. 


Please pray for the students in the camp, that they would learn about the love of the Lord while they are learning English. The English is being taught based on stories from the life of David, which gives excellent lessons on trust, faith, obedience, etc.  Also please pray for the Cross Timber team and us, the Hungarian helpers, and for Pastor Tibor and his wife Marti and the whole church there in Hajduszoboszlo.  I'll try to update you further as soon as I can.  Thanks, y'all!  (See, the Texas influence is being felt!) 

1 comment:

scowden said...

Hooray! Thanks for posting the pics and telling us what's happening! English camps are always exciting!