The view from Budapest

Here is what I have been looking at all day.  Many staff from across Eastern Europe & Russia, asking God to bring more students to know Him and to be involved in the ministry.  They are being trained in Change Action Teams and how they can come up with creative solutions to some of the [...]

  Valerie & I had the great privlege to attend our National Directors Conference this past week.  All of the leaders of the 19 countries across Eastern Europe & Russia come together twice a year to pray, be encouraged, and talk about strategy.  Every couple of years, their wives come with them and we go to [...]

What do you get when you have two lawyers in a room in Hungary?  Two days of trying to stay awake in meetings and there’s nothing funny about that.  Don’t you wish you could join me? We are going to be wrestling with Hungarian Tax Law as it relates to our ministry.  

 I had the privilege this week of facilitating a meeting with our ministry in Bulgaria.  Last spring, Bulgaria held a nationwide campaign using the Story of Jesus for Children.  Across the nation over 300,000 people saw the film in a live showing and another 1.1 million saw the film on National Television.  Many of those [...]

Yesterday, I took my first trip in almost 6 months (here is the plane that I flew on).  This is definately my longest stretch without a ministry trip since I moved to Budapest.  I’m in Sofia, Bulgaria to facilitate an evaluation of a major evangelistic campaign that we held across the country last year.  I haven’t seen much yet, [...]

This is a phrase that we use a lot inside of CCC.  Conferences are something we are really good at and that we have found effective in moving forward on our mission.  Bringing people together to discuss challenges, work on problems, get some training is really important in ministry. 

This week it is hitting me close [...]

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I’m not sure if you can tell from the picture, but it is a shot of my Email Inbox. EMPTY!!!!! I’m not sure I’ve had an empty inbox since the day that I started using email. In fact, if you take the average number of emails in the inbox over the [...]

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I haven’t been able to blog much while here in Singapore. We have been in meetings all day and at our hotel you have to buy Internet in 30 min blocks. It isn’t terribly cheap and so I usually only buy one. I use it to call home to Budapest on Skype. [...]

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I made it to Singapore! The flight was uneventful and I was able to sleep 5-6 hours! That means I arrived fairly rested and I feel great as we start the meetings this morning. We are going to have about 10 people from all over the world. There are [...]

Yesterday, Larry returned to the office after some vacation. We realized that it was one day short of 2 months since we had seen each other. That’s a pretty long time considering we are supposed to work “together.” I’ve been in regularly phone communication, but it was good to get back [...]