Here are some pictures of the wedding of our daughter Hannah Potter and Kenneth Earnshaw, Jr.  Click pictures to enlarge.

Kenny and Hannah

Wedding Party

The couple with their parents

Potter Girls

Potter Family

Wedding Cake

Dear Praying Friends,

I first met Gabor more than five years ago.  Ami, an eighth grader at the
time, was about to audition for the arts high school.  Ami’s teacher asked
Gabor to listen to Ami’s audition pieces and give her some advice.  I was
very impressed with the way Gabor made suggestions and at the same time
built up Ami’s confidence.  Last Thursday, there sat Gabor as one of four
judges when Ami auditioned for the University of Pecs.  Besides Gabor’s
position as a violin teacher at the university, he is also a member of a
string quartet based in Salzburg, Austria.  I wonder if he gets tired of
shuttling back and forth between the two cities.

My friend Monty Budahl, retired head of the fine arts department at
Maranatha Baptist Bible College, has well said that there is more gospel
witness in jail than in the symphony orchestra.  I have not yet had a chance
to find out about Gabor’s spiritual condition, but I may get my chance if he
turns out to be Ami’s teacher at the University of Pecs.  Pray for him.  He
is one of about ten million reasons God sent us to Hungary.

This past month the Pecs church celebrated its fifteenth anniversary and the
Nagykanizsa church celebrated its second.  Along with the celebration in
Nagykanizsa, twenty-two people signed the church charter.  It was my
privilege to participate in that chartering service.  I have posted pictures
of these events plus some video of special music on our web site.  Please
check it out at www.hungaryhearts.com.

Sixteen students finished the Bible Institute class on Psalms today.  Please
pray for the Lord’s guidance concerning a busy schedule of classes for this
fall, both here in Pecs and, hopefully, in Nagykanizsa.  Pray for wisdom for
the national pastors, Bela Horvath and Gedeon Olah, as they guide these two
churches.

Lajos Makura, one of our church members, would appreciate your prayers
concerning a job.  The company he worked for went bankrupt last month.  We
are thankful that most of the men in our church have secure jobs, but with
economic conditions as they are, we realize that we have to rely on God for
our living, not our employers.

Next week Ami will audition, June 29th, at the Liszt Academy in Budapest.
We may not know the final results for several weeks.   She would appreciate
your prayers.  The auditions are highly competitive, since an Academy degree
carries a lot of prestige.  Pray that God will use the auditions to direct
Ami to the place He wants her to study in September.

Our plane leaves for the United States on Friday, July 2nd.  The purpose of
our trip is to attend the wedding of our daughter Hannah on July 6 and to
report to several of our supporting churches.  I plan to write the next
“Hungary Hearts” at the end of August.  In the mean time, pray for the
church Family Camp, August 23-27, with Monty Budahl (mentioned above) as the
main speaker.  This year we want to have a sort of mini-music camp parallel
with our normal camp.

Pray also for the Knies family as they transition to a new ministry in
Budapest.  God has wonderfully provided them with an apartment and a meeting
place at very low cost in an expensive area of the city.

Again, we thank you for your prayers.

Yours for Hungary Hearts,

David Potter

Although Hungary celebrates Mothers’ Day, Women’s Day and Children’s Day, they have  no national celebration for fathers.  As a church, however, we honor our fathers.  Sunday, the children sang a song and presented gifts the the fathers who came.  Click pictures to enlarge.

Children's Choir

Fathers

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Charter

Today we had the privilege to attend the second anniversary and charter signing of Lighthouse Baptist Church of Nagykanizsa.   Click pictures to enlarge.

Cake

The Whole Group

Congregation

Testimony

Encouraging words

Twenty-two members signed the charter.

Signing

I signed as a witness.

Witness

Pastor Rhon Roberts of Mukwonago Baptist Church of Mukwonago, WI, preached the message.

Preaching

Rhon Roberts, Tim Hughes, David Potter, Jim Knies and Gedeon Olah prayed at the close of the service.

Prayer

Cut the cake

Fellowship I

Fellowship II

Sixteen students are enrolled in our class on the book of Psalms.

Click picture to enlarge.

Psalms Class

Playing this Sunday evening special number are Ami Potter, violin, Bela Gado, viola, Vivian Bodo, string bass and, introducing Virag Gado, cello.

What a Friend We Have in Jesus from David Potter on Vimeo.

Dear Praying Friends,

The first time I laid eyes on Robert, I would never have suspected that he might someday be a candidate for the Gospel ministry.  His smile is very pleasant, but the hair that ran down his back as far as his waist just didn’t quite fit my picture of a Baptist pastor.  Robert and his wife had come to Christ from the witness of his wife’s cousin in Budapest, but they had not grown much spiritually, because they could not find a good Bible-preaching church to attend.  Last year they enrolled in English classes taught by Tim and Sheryl Hughes and the Hughes invited them to a Friend Day Sunday at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Nagykanizsa.   They have attended faithfully ever since.

How things have changed since the first time I say him.  I still recognize his smiling face but the long hair is gone.  He realized he needed to cut it before he was baptized and joined the church.  Last month he accompanied Gedeon Olah on a preaching trip to Albania.   The experience has had a very good effect on Robert.  As I have been teaching the Baptist Distinctives to his church over the past couple of weeks, Robert has taken in every word.  From such people we expect that God will raise up the next generation of pastors and church planters in Hungary.  Pray for Robert.  He is one of about ten million reasons God sent us to Hungary.

Thank you for praying for the end of the semester for the Romanians students taking Greek.   All did very well on the final exam.  I believe that all of them have enough of a grasp of the basics to enhance their preaching and teaching.   Thank you for praying for the home school conference where Jean and I spoke.  About 30 home schooling families attended from Timisoara, Romania, in the east, to Sopron in the far west of Hungary.  Our teaching was very well received.  Thank you for praying for our new English language Sunday School class which I am teaching to English-speaking university students.  This is a bad time of year to start such a class, yet we have had seven attend so far.  We will suspend the class from the middle of this month until school starts again in September, since most of the students will return to their home countries for the summer.  We would appreciate your continued prayers for this new ministry.

In May I began teaching a class on the book of Psalms for the Pecs Bible institute.   Sixteen students have enrolled.  I expect to finish by the end of June.  Please pray that the students will finish the class and learn and grow spiritually from studying this very rich book.

Peter, whom I asked you to pray for last month, has been attending services.  Pray for his continued growth.  Pray also for the continued growth of Nikolett, who is taking the discipleship class taught by two of the church ladies.  I have asked for prayer for Attila numerous times.  We were encouraged to see him in church last Sunday.  Please pray for his spiritual growth.

This month will be another busy one.  Besides the Bible institute class, we plan to attend the second anniversary and charter signing service for Lighthouse Baptist on the 13^th.  I will be preaching there on June 27^th.  Ami faces auditions for the University of Pecs and for the Liszt Academy in Budapest.  Pray that the Lord’s will would be done and that He would guide her as to the next step in her training.  The Lord willing, on July 2 we are flying to the States to attend the wedding of our daughter, Hannah, to Lieutenant Kenneth Earnshaw.  The wedding will take place in Greenville, South Carolina, at Mount Calvary Baptist Church.  In the weeks following, we plan to report to a number of our supporting churches in the Midwest.

Zoli Kiss, a member of the Pecs church, would appreciate your prayers regarding the Lord’s guidance for his future service for God, as he will be graduating from the University of Pecs next year.

Ami and I have faced some minor health issues over the past couple of weeks.  We are thankful that God has enabled Jean to nurse us both back to health.

Thank you for your continuing prayers on our behalf.  We depend on you.

Yours for Hungary hearts,

David Potter

PS—Don’t forget to visit our web site, www.hungaryhearts.com, for all the latest pictures.

This evening we celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of Bible Baptist Church of Pecs.  After observing the Lord’s Supper and hearing a stirring message about reaching the lost from Jim Knies, we enjoyed chocolate cake and fellowship together.  Your heart would have been warmed by the testimonies from several people of how the Lord has used Bible Baptist in their lives.  Click pictures to enlarge.

Group Picture

Chocolate Cake

Hungarians celebrate Mother’s Day on the first Sunday in May, rather than the second.  Here are some pictures taken this morning.  Sixty people attended, including 19 mothers.  The children enacted the story of Hannah and Samuel.  Click pictures to enlarge.

Children's Play

Hannah and Eli

Mothers

Choir