Wednesday English Cafe

As I was not talking tonight at the English Cafe, I had the oppurtunity to sit at a table and get to know some of the people who were there.

I found this very interesting and the people on my table were very interesting to talk to, there were two kindergarten teachers who taught together one attended the church (Ili) and the other one didn't (Kata). These are two of the nicest ladies I have ever met.

Kata was very keen to learn english, so much so that she turned up every afternoon to learn english with the kids as well as at the english cafe. Her english was pretty good.

I really enjoyed today and could really feel God working in me and the team as a whole and also between us and the Hungarian team, we were all working very well together and friendships were started to be formed.

Decorating Biscuits

Today's crafts was decorating biscuits - I wonder how many were decorated and how many were eaten!

Below is Peti, he is the cutest boy ever... all the girls on the team wanted to take him home with us... just look at him.... awwww


Ati looks like he is eating his biscuit

Dave and Janos over seeing the biscuit decorating

Concentration

Here's one I made earlier!

Wednesday English Teaching

These girls always had big smiles on them.

Naomi and Matyi learning English

Bence - learning English - He is a great guy

Nemiah teaching

Kids Camp Day Three

2pm was the start of the children's programme and I was down to do the welcoming ie. standing up in the front introducing the afternoon, doing a game of musical statutues and basically making a fool of myself.

Standing up in front of people is something that scares me and makes me nervous, and standing up in front of kids is intimidating for me. But when I got up at the front, it wasn't too bad, God seemed to give me the confidence to do it, and just shows another development of my character - God is using me for his good. Now I think getting up in front of kids is ok, and am up for doing it again. Actually I think after the past two days, I realised I can do whatever I want as long as I put my mind to it and call on God for strength, He can help me do anything.



After the introduction , song singing and bible teaching, we split into groups again - sports, crafts and teaching english. I was doing english with Nemiah and Zsuzsi. Nemiah led it but give me a chance to lead a bit of it as well - it was good doing this, I wasn't nervous at all. These kids are very well behaved and obedient and also keen to learn. I am growing in my working with kids and am enjoying everything that am enjoying getting my feet wet, so to speak!

Wednesday - Day Three

Another day and more fun to be had. Again the day started with breakfast at 8.30am, devotions at 9.30am and preparation for the day at 10.30am.

I decided to do english teaching for kids today, stepping out of my comfort zone again - God is doing wonders for my development on this trip.

So the morning for me was spent preparing the english lessons with Nemiah, Tim and Zsuzsi. Today's lesson was on food, what a lovely topic. So we prepared wordsearchers, flashcareds etc on this topic - english preparation takes the longest as there are 3 age groups to prepare for. Altogether it took us nearly two hours and at the end it got quite stressful. But I reliased that God would help us when we got there in the afternoon.

Lunch time came and again it was Pork, and no substitute for me, so I had to go hungry. I was starting to feel really frustrated with this food business. I think God was trying to make me grow more patients by sending me to a country where eat a lot of eggs and porks, two things I am allergic too. He has a funny sense of humour.

Diver Dave

The place where we ate dinner, there were loads of weird old things hanging around and Dave took a fancy to a diver's helmet and came to dinner wearing it... but he discovered a problem, he could not get his food through the glass.. so he had to take it off or starve!

English Cafe

During dinner, the nerves hit me and I got a bit scared about doing my talk on Identity at the English Cafe - it would be my first real time of standing in front of people and it was in Hungary with a translator - I always seem to do things the hard way.

However, when I got to the church, my nerves seemed to disappear, but they quicky reappeared again when instead of the 15 people that we expected to come, 45 people actually turned up. This was exciting to see but nerve wracking for me - we quickly had to get more tables and chairs for everyone.

It was great encouragement both for the team and also for the church to see all these people turn up in order to learn a big of English from us and to hear a little talk on God.

Ava introduced the night and we all stood up and introduced ourselves, telling them our names and where we were from. One thing about the Hungarian people that I noticed as soon as I got into the country is that they are very friendly welcoming people - a bit like the Irish!

To start off the night and break the ice a bit, we played a game called Bingo - everyone was given a piece of paper with different things about the London team on them, and the aim of the game was to go around all the team members and find out which person fitted the squares. There was lots of buzz and they seemed to really enjoy the game and the ice was finally broken.

My nerves were going crazy at this point as it was now time for me to get up and speak.

The experience wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Esther, who was translating for me was very good and even though we both messed up some lines, it did not seem to matter to everyone.

People were listening well and laughing at the right points which relaxed me and in the end it just felt like Esther and I were just standing there having a conversation together and the rest of them were just listening to us, that was a good thing as it took away my nerves. But also my prayers before hand were being answered, and one in particular - for me to speak slowly... which I did, amazingly for me!

There is no evidence of me speaking as no one took any photos of me, boo hoo!

When I had finished my talk, there were table discussions. This time was to be used to introduce one another and talk about what they thought identity was. These discussions went well and it seemed that my talk went down really well and people enjoyed it. And the point I wanted to get across about our identity being in Christ and nothing else, seemed to get across, which was fantastic.

God was definately with me when I stood up at the front, I felt a calmness when I got up there and could really feel His presence with me which was good. He helped open people's ears and let the message sink in. My nevers were replaced with joy and amazement again in the power of God.

I ended the night really looking forward to Wednesday and what God had in store for me and the other team members.