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Dear Special Friends,   Brenda is very involved in the local church here in Budapest. She goes to both Hungarian and English “Life Groups” where she connects with people in the church.   So even though we are missionaries and work with churches throughout Eastern Europe, we attend local churches here in Budapest.   Even…

Dear Special Friends, Wow…Welcome to year 2018! It was 36 years ago today that we started our lives as missionaries.   We remember so well that day when we got on an airplane in Miami to fly to San Jose, Costa Rica. Wow, January 1982. We could never have imagined all the amazing things that have…

Dear Special Friends, Merry Christmas once again from Budapest, Hungary. We love the Christmas Season. This will be our 21st Christmas here. We will have our two daughters with us here for Christmas. When we look back on this year its been so amazing to see all that has happened in this part of the…

Wow, its Fall already.  People used to tell us as that as we grow older the years will seem to pass faster. I guess in someways that’s been true. We look at our children lives and see both of our boys now in their 30’s we find ourselves thinking back where we were living at their…

Dear Special Friends, This year once again we will celebrate the 4th of July, Independence Day here in the US. It’s been wonderful for us to spend a few weeks in the USA with our children and getting to see our families and also minister at some churches. FAMILY . . .While you are reading…

Dear  Special Friends, One of the things we never get tired of is sitting down with the pastors of the churches we have helped to start and hearing some of the great stories of how God has moved inthese churches that we have helped start in the past fifteen years. This happened just this morning. …

A Note from Brenda   I love living in Hungary and love the Hungarian Culture. Life, it seems is a little slower here and I love to go for walks with our daughter, Alexandra in parks here. Others are walking and talking with friends and feeding the birds, children are playing, Teens playing basketball and…

Dear Special Friends, This week is an anniversary of sorts to us.  We now have been serving as missionaries for over 35 years. Wow….That sounds so so long ago… It was the first week of January 1982 that we left the USA to move overseas as missionaries.  (See the enclosed photo card) Little did we…

Dear Special Friends, This week is an anniversary of sorts to us.  We now have been serving as missionaries for over 35 years. Wow….That sounds so so long ago… It was the first week of January 1982 that we left the USA to move overseas as missionaries.  (See the enclosed photo card) Little did we…