Update from Larry and Melinda Ewing
06.02.2004

Here is an update from Larry and Melinda Ewing, who are serving the Lord in Hungary helping Ron and Robin Brown. We will be working with all four of them. Be sure and read the attached testimony!

-- Jay Moyers

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 05:30:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Good News!






Hi,

We just wanted to share what God has been doing in western Hungary. Attached is a picture of Andras, Livi, and Melinda eating a "celebration supper" at a little hotel just after a baptism service at the hotel pool. Last Tuesday, at our flat, Nauszika (attached is her baptism picture and testimony) led Livi to Christ! Livi came to watch Nauszika be baptized.

Andras is 18 and lives in an orphanage in Sopron, about 1 hour from Györ. Paul and Tina led him to Christ last summer. They invited Andras to watch a baptism. Because of the language barrier, Andras thought he was being invited to a swimming party! When some Hungarians explained to him what it was, he told them that he had been reading about baptism in the Bible and also wanted to be baptized. Out of obedience to the Lord's command, both were baptized Thursday night.

The third picture is of Erika who works at McDonalds with Emily and Haley. She also accepted Christ May 21st. Please pray for her growth as a new child of God.

I know that Nauszika's testimony will bless your life. She is meeting 3 days a week for indepth Bible study and comes to our Sunday morning house church at our flat.

We are praising God for His blessings in the lives of these three Hungarians. Please continue to be a part of what God is doing in western Hungary by continuing to pray for the Spirit of God to move in the hearts of unbelieving Hungarians. We believe several more people are very close to receiving Christ. Thank you for your prayers. Without them, nothing would be happening!

-- Larry and Melinda

Dear Lord God,

I am offering my testimony to You. I am so grateful at how You have changed my life. I know that You have been drawing me to You.

I always felt that my life was worthless. I wanted to do everything perfectly. I was never satisfied. I behaved selfishly when I didn’t reach my desire. But I couldn’t have been perfect. When nothing seemed to be successful and I was so down, I felt I must do something to change. I started searching. First, I looked inside me to see what was wrong. The way to God started to open for me. But still I was in a maze and lost. Although, I believed that there was God, I didn’t know how to reach Him. I was interested in things beyond materialism. I still thought I wasn’t on the right way. I know God wanted to show me the way, as He knew I was searching intensively. He even dragged me off my wrong ways. He led me to the right place to find Him. I knew very little about God. As I heard more and more about Jesus it made easier to recognise I was on the right way then.

It is interesting that I had to learn a foreign language in which I could hear His words. When I was younger and He spoke to me in my mother tongue I wasn’t open to listen to Him. I wasn’t aware of the fact of how relevant Jesus was to me. Even if He showed me one of the comforting verses when I needed:
Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart’s desires. Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him to help you do it and he will. (Psalms 37:4,5)
And three days later He fulfilled. I turned away from Him, but not forever; I just delayed having a relationship with Him.

Since then I have accepted Jesus into my heart. Jesus died on the cross for us to forgive our sins. What I have to do is to follow and trust Him. This is the only way to reach God. My friends from Texas came to Hungary to serve the Lord, and I am saved due to them. Now I know that I don’t have to belong to any denominations to become a real believer. I have been learning more and more about Jesus. The more I learn the more my faith is stronger. First, I had to encourage myself with prayers. Now it became my passion to absorb His words through the Scriptures. My relationship with God is getting better through my prayers, which I do enjoy doing. The Holy Spirit leads me to be able to forgive people. Sometimes He surprises me with my own attitude. I can share my belief with others. I know how difficult it is to understand the Truth, but when you do it is a great release. As I obey God, He shows the way to me, and I don’t have to worry about my future; He has given peace into my heart. Every day is the best day to praise Him. I feel His love and my love is deeper and deeper.

I haven’t read the whole Bible yet, but I have been studying as many times as I can in order to understand what happened and what is going to happen to the believers and non-believers. I have a desire to pray for the entire unsaved not to be blind and see the light as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,
Nauszika Tari

Jesus replied that people became thirsty again after drinking this water. “But the water I give them,” he said, “becomes a perpetual spring within them, watering them forever with eternal life.” (John 4:13,14)


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