Bóly:

this last week we have spent in the south western hungarian town of Bóly. we worked along with the local reformed church and put on english clubs, kids club, sports camps and a video night. we had a great time hanging out with the local teens and learning many new hungarian words like "durva" (hardcore) and mesztelen csiga (slug-but literally translated is "jersey-less snail, or naked snail), and "pupu teve" (camel....i laughed really hard at this one!) and hopefully we were able to teach them some english too. the teens had a good base of english so we did more discussion groups and talked about all sorts of topics. it was really great to get more in depth with these guys and just hang out and have fun. the guys had much to ask about canada since they loved watching whistler mountain biking and squamish climbing videos. so of course they all now have an open invitation to come and check out vancouver. this is Gabor who proudly wore his canada shirt to show us! some of the guys also took us to the local city of Pécs, well actually by the book Bóly is a city but only 3000 people live there. but they were very stern on correcting us when we called it a town, but anyways close by is Pécs which has been voted the cultural capital of europe for the coming years. a very nice city to say the least! you may be wondering whats up with the locks, well its a tradition in Pécs that couples in love go to this fence and clip on a lock, our guides for the day had a lock some where on the fence but he was unable to find it. i can see why in that mess, but im sure his girlfriend would have been able to find it. the pastor who we worked with serves that town together with 15 other towns, and 9 of those he holds monthly services, just to give you an idea of the demands and lack of pastoral workers here in hungary. we had a great time serving alongside janos (the pastor) and his wife francie (a former OMer) they have a great work going in this town and you can see how much the teens respect and enjoy just hanging out with their pastor which was really cool to see, as it is kinda rare here in hungary. pray along with us for Bóly and the surrounding area.

We are also very excited since tomorrow my sister Andrea and her husband Warren will be arriving to visit us. it'll be great catching up on old times and showing them a little bit of Hungary. we also will be preparing for our next outreach in 2 weeks and doing some work around here. My cousin Beth and her friend will be coming in a weeks time to help us locally here and also on our next outreach. So we will be doing some painting prep work at our team center in Ofalu for our arriving artists (Beth & Megan) to complete a mural in the center there. so times are busy but it's a good busy, so there you go our weekly update, and a happy canada day to all, eh!