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

Today I began teaching the book of Proverbs to a group of university students from Nigeria, Germany and Norway.  Four came for the first class, a good start.  Please pray for growth in this new ministry.

Here is a picture of the first class.  Jan, Rolf, Barbara and Priscilla joined Jean and me.  Click to enlarge.

English Sunday School Class

Colin Christiansen was our special guest speaker on Sunday evening, April 18.  Colin and his wife Sandy had been missionaries in Hungary.  Hearing Colin’s testimony of how God has worked in his life over the past three years was an encouragement.  We are praying that God will bring Colin and Sandy back to Hungary to serve here once again.

Dear Praying Friends,

Peter seems to be a bit shy and socially inept, but his outward demeanor hides an active brain.  He is a tenth-grader who specializes in information technology (computers) in high school, with hopes of pursuing advanced education in that field.  He lives in the same apartment building as the Kiss family, who are members of our church.   Zoli Kiss invited him to our special meetings and he was able to attend on the final night.

After the service, Valerie Knies asked him if he would like to speak to someone about salvation.  His friend Zoli probably would have done so, but he was busy helping Bob McKinney counsel someone else who wanted to be saved.  Instead, young Bela Gado went through the plan of salvation with him.  After Zoli’s first counselee had prayed to receive Christ as Savoir, Zoli joined Bela and the two of them led Peter to Christ.  Pray for Peter.  He is one of about ten million reasons God sent us to Hungary.

Thank you for praying for our special meetings.  They were well attended every night.  God used Bob and Tina McKinney to encourage us all.  Bob did a wonderful job of explaining how the biblical concept of love applies to the problems of contemporary life.  Besides the two who professed Christ on the final night, we had a number of visitors who expressed a spiritual interest.  Pray that God will use us to guide them to Christ and that the new converts will follow Christ in baptism and church membership.

Thanks for praying about the Greek classes in Romania.  The students are doing well.  Our final classes will be May 3 and 4, with the final exam to follow.  We ask you to pray with us for God’s guidance about what contribution He wants me to make toward the further training of these men.

Please pray for our new Sunday School class for English speaking university student, which begins tomorrow, May 2.  I have long had a burden to help these students, but the opening to do something like this never presented itself before.  The present opportunity has come unsought.  Pray that the classes would result in spiritual growth for these students and for salvation of others as the ones who are interested invite friends to come.

On May 15, Jean and I will be featured speakers for Hungary’s first ever Christian home school conference, which will be held near Budapest.  Pray that God will use us to be a blessing to these new home educators.

On May 20-22 and 27-29 I will be teaching a series of lessons on the Baptist Distinctives in Nagykanizsa.  The Lighthouse Baptist church has many new converts who know nothing of the Baptist heritage and practice.  Pray that the lectures will be both interesting and effective in teaching these new believers about this important subject.  We continue to watch the progress of the Olahs and the Hughes.  In special meetings which ended last Sunday, the Lighthouse Baptist Church saw three new professions of faith.

We would also appreciate your prayers concerning our daughter Hannah’s upcoming wedding, July 6.  We plan to leave right after Ami’s audition at the Liszt Academy in Budapest.  Ami would appreciate your prayers as she prepares.

We appreciate your prayers and notes of encouragement.

Yours for Hungary hearts,

David Potter

PS—Check out our web site, www.hungaryhearts.com, for several new posts, including a musical selection from our recent Easter program.

Bob and Tina McKinney, missionaries to Poland with Baptist World Mission, visited us for a series of special evangelistic meetings. We have a number of visitors to follow up on and two professions of faith. Here is a picture of Bob preaching on Sunday evening. Click to enlarge.

Bob McKinney

We are grateful for the people God has given us to work with. Young Bela Gado, whom I wrote about in our October 2009 prayer letter, entered a national competition for high schoolers who want to go into civil engineering. He placed third. The head of civil engineering department at the university where the competition was held sat in on the oral portion of Bela’s exam and invited him to come back and teach there whenever he earns his degree.