We wanted to send out our first newsletter of this year in February, but all of a sudden, the Lord answered our prayers, enlarged our territory, and opened yet other great opportunities for our ministry! 

God is moving greatly in Europe! He uses even the devastation of war to win people’s hearts. It is thrilling and humbling to experience that He is working through us on such a large scale! Our ministry is exploding in front of our eyes. The old fire He lit in our hearts to reach every country and language of Europe is burning stronger than ever. We hope that we are a part of an incredible revival that will replace the chilling spiritual darkness of atheism there. In cultures that dismiss the Bible as an old fable, and look at people who believe in its truth as imbeciles, finding Gospel tracts in their mailbox, on their windshield, or putting it in their pocket when someone gives it to them on the street allows people the opportunity to read it in privacy, without anyone’s judging eyes watching. And they can read them again and again helping its truth open their mind and turn their hearts to God. This is the power of the Holy Spirit working through the written word of God. All praise and glory to Him, who doesn’t want anyone to perish, but to have everlasting life with Him in Heaven! 🙏

If you are already supporting us, know that you are reaching masses of people for the Lord with His love and plan of salvation. We are truly grateful to you! Please continue to pray for us! The enemy has been trying to trample us down in all kinds of ways and stop us from serving the Lord. If you are not a part of our team yet, please click on the picture and join us in this amazing, joyful battle for the souls!

Spreading true Christmas cheer in front of a high school… with chocolate bars, Gospel tracts, and LONG conversations about God. 🥰🎄🙏

No matter how we look at it, for many, Christmas became a secular holiday all over the world. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if soon it would get completely re-named to make sure it did not offend anyone. … The two, three weeks of shopping frenzy before Christmas is still the perfect time to remind people what exactly we are celebrating and who Jesus Christ really is. Like in most cities, in Budapest, entire blocks get cordoned off, decorated, and set up as special Christmas shopping districts. The streets get crowded and shops are open all day and late into the night. In 2020 we planned to be there but were not able to go. This year we hope nothing will come up. We are preparing special tracts about Jesus, and talking to other organizations and churches in Hungary to get some help giving them all out.

If you or your church group feels called to serve with us on this trip, or in any way in the future, please contact us. Together we can reach more people. Please send us an email at: contact@aando.us

Finally, we were able to travel to Hungary!!! We tried not to fall into our usual mistake and schedule too many things into each day. Every time we went there before to build God’s Kingdom our plans got changed anyway – either by the enemy’s attacks or because God opened new doors for us. During the long time we haven’t been able to visit, Budapest changed a lot, and not for the better.

Later we got together with one of our missionary friends who regularly reaches out to the homeless. We gave him hundreds of tracts for which he was grateful.

During our trip, Hungary just started to allow the organization of smaller cultural events. So the rest of the time we distributed almost 2,000 tracts on the streets, in malls, cafés, stores, and parking lots. The Lord also answered our prayers and connected us to other ministries. We met with them and discussed, and prayed about how we could work together and help each other to reach more people with the message and love of Jesus Christ not only in Hungary but also in other European countries.

 

We now only have about a week left before boarding our flight to Hungary!!!
It looks like finally, we will be able to go. We are excited! We fought the bad habit of planning 48 hours of activities into every 24, and are determined that we will start and finish every day with focused devotional time. We will meet new churches to discuss how we can build the Kingdom together. We will help our Hungarian missionary friends to run a week-long, full-day Soccer-English-Bible Camp for unchurched kids. And of course, we will go from event to event, shopping center to office park, street to street, and hand out as many Gospel Tracts as possible. Please pray that the Lord blesses us with many opportunities to share!

Last year because of the constantly changing travel restrictions we had to cancel all our planned mission trips. It looks like we will be able to go this June!!! We are scheduled to work in a Soccer-Bible Camp for kids, and also hope to distribute several thousands of Gospel Tracts with local churches. So, now we are ZOOM-ing with Hungarian churches, scheduling meetings, planning outreach events, preparing materials for print, and praying that nothing will prevent us from going. Please pray with us that the Lord will go before us!

As you may remember during last year, we tried four times to complete our planned mission trips. We had tickets for April, then in June, then in August, and finally in October, to put our plans in action and mobilize true Bible teaching Hungarian churches to launch their outreach. (Interesting fact: there isn’t even an expression in Hungarian for the word “outreach”. Wow!) All our flights and their re-booked flights were canceled, so in 2020 we could not go. But since most of our work (research, translation, writing, editing, artwork, print and layout design, web development, multimedia content creation, correspondence, and so on…) is done at home, we didn’t miss a beat. On the contrary, during the pandemic, we spent more time at home and were able to focus on the ministry without much distraction. Creating Gospel Tracts, and other short materials in Hungarian specifically for those who believe that the Bible is an old fable with no value for today’s rational man is the passion the Lord put into our hearts.
Please pray that He connects us to the churches and ministries in Hungary He wants us to work together with!