SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... must be what God had on His mind when He planned my day for yesterday. Here's why:

A few weeks ago, Arpi was invited to teach at one of the days of the CC Budapest conference in Vajta. I decided to go with him, partly to support him, and partly to see some friends from Budapest that I haven't seen in a long time.

Well, the Lord had a much, much better plan! We had barely arrived when I bumped into three precious people from Miskolc. (sidenote: I lived in Miskolc for a year between 1999-2000, I was helping in a church-planting effort) I hadn't seen Alex, Nagyfej and Evi in about 5 years, and this was completely unexpected!

Here's a picture of the girls:

Nagyfej and Évi

We had a LONG chat of about two hours, and it was such an incredible blessing to see and hear that they are doing well, walking with the Lord. Oh, I can't even begin to describe how the Lord blessed me through them!

And if that wasn't enough...my former roommate (cca 1997-1998 from Budapest), Theresa Howard and her family "happened to be" visiting from England - where they have been serving as missionaries in Harrogate. What a blessing it was to catch up and share all that the Lord has done in both of our lives, and to share about the things He is doing in the places where He has us now.

The Howards

Whoever thinks that Christian life is boring, they are so wrong. It's anything but boring.

Thank you, Lord for a wonderful surprise of a day!

The boatride

One day we took a boatride from Vodice to Sibenik and back. As you can see from the pictures, it was A LOT OF fun, and really beautiful. Seeing some of the cute, old Dalmatian houses by the sea, Lili and I agreed that it is absolutely outrageous that some people get to live in places like this. Scandalous! How come THOSE people get to live there, and WE don't?! We still haven't figured out the answer, but if anyone has an input, we'd love to hear it.

Arpi and Andi, happy on the boat.

An artist's (Geza) view of Sibenik's famous cathedral from the fortress above the old city.

The loggia at the main square of Sibenik's old town.

In Split

Our first two days of our vacation were spent in the city of Split, visiting our friends, the Warholics. Tim and Grace (along with baby Thomas) are missionaries there. It was an encouragement to see them, as they are faithfully serving the Lord.

It was also good to see Andi Djirki, who is from Subotica (our hometown), and who has been helping them by interpreting the Bible studies. What an amazing God we serve!
Do pray for them, and pray that God would save many people in the city of Split and in Croatia!


Here's a picture of Tim and Grace, aren't they cute?

We went back to Split a week later, this time with our friends Geza and Lili (with baby Nori in tow). They have never been to Croatia before, so we took them on a tour of the old town of Split. They are every tour-guide's dream. Both of them are totally enthusiastic about everything, amazed at how beautiful everything is - which it really is -, but this made it so much more fun to show them around.


Here are a few pics of the tour.