Kiskunhalas English Camp

So August has already come so quickly and we are already back from our big english camp! It went really well with over 50 kids that came out. (Youngest aged 6 and the oldest: 51!) Obviously this outreach was in desperate need for more people than just our OVM team of 4. So we had a team of four come from the states and also our friends Christina and Benni from Germany travelled out to provide us with much needed english teaching skills. Christina teaches English in Germany and Benni is now studying to be a highschool english teacher. So they we a great wealth of ideas for us and gave us some tips to use in the future too! (thanks again for coming and helping us guys! we really appriciated it) Lynnette and Benni lead one class while Christina and I lead another....we thought we would spread out the knowledge and wisdom a little! We used the book of Ruth in the first week as a base for our teaching and in the second week we taught from the life and death of Christ. We normally would read the story then use these as a base for teaching. This provided many oppurtunites each day to share the message of the gospel with the kids, and in turn we had many great dissucions with them. It gave us chances to challenge those who were believers already with what thier faith really meant to them, and bring the gospel to those who had never heard it before! We thank God that he gave us so many oppurtunities to share our personal testimonies and lives with these kids.We also had baseball everyday, which is always a popular thing with all the kids! Then in the evenings we had many different programs, including movie club, worship night, and games night among other things. We were also treated to a hungarian bogracs, my personal fav in the hungarian cuisine! It's a popular dish cooked over the fire in a big pot, with all sorts of tasty spices, potatoes and meat, mmmmmm I'm craving it just talking about it. As an extra to the English classes, we set up a town wide scavenger hunt for the kids which was as much fun for us to preapare as it was for the kids to do. Lynnette and I had the playground challenge where we had kids of all ages (8 to 45) played on the slides, swings and teeter-tooter. Then they had to try to fit as many of them onto a small horse as possible, very funny to watch. We also had the kids sitting on the "sinners stone". It was placed in the center of the town in the 17th century. Anyone caught in sin was sent off to sit on the stone for a little public humilation. Here is a pic of Lynnette "warming" the stone. The stone now sits beside the local reform chruch and honestly it looks like it had a lot of use over the years. I'd love to have met the man who thought this was a good idea. Imagine bringing this big stone into the town square, or maybe infront of VMB or something and saying: "ok, if you sin you have to sit here for the next 12 hours." Maybe people starting padding their shorts to lessen the puinshment! Because I'm pretty sure this didn't rid the town of sin.This last picture is of Benni and I doing a little improv skit for the talent show we had on the last day. Ok, we had a little help from our lovely wives who quite enjoyed feeding us breakfast, combing our hair, shaving, and even putting on some lipstick! It was a great way to make the kids laugh! Please continue to pray with us for Kiskunhalas...for all the seeds that were planted in the hearts of the kids and for the pastors and workers to do follow up work. Thanks so much for all the prayers as we were away, we really could feel it and it made a huge difference for us! THANK YOU!!!!