well i know many of you have been praying for our special christmas service which we had in a gyspsy community close to erd. on sunday we headed out loaded down with gifts for children and families. i actually felt a bit like the grinch who stole christmas as i had the joy of driving our team toyota loaded down with all the gifts, all we were missing was a little dog with an antler tied on its head to pull the van! i guess i would need also to be green and have the desire to steal the stuff, as much as i loved all the barbies and toy cars! the evening included a program put on by our team, we sang some christmas songs, our hungarian teammate sang a solo and also our team mates nephew visiting from brazil sang a song. carlos shared a message of Gods power to change our lives. he shared his life story and how God brought him off the streets of brazil and changed his life completely, he has one of the most powerful testimonies i have heard and he had a deep impact on the people there, more than 15 people came to accept christ, many with tears in their eyes and one even before carlos had asked if anyone would like to come forward. God moved in a powerful way on sunday evening and we could only sit back and rejoice in what he was doing!

as you may have read we had tons of clothes and stuff delivered from sweden, so we packed these into gift boxes for the families and the local christian high school donated a ton of toys which we gave to the kids, although we didnt have enough for all who came (many people came completely unexpected) we were able to get names down and tomorrow we will take another van load of boxes out to deliver to families.