An Amazing English Camp

“How Great is our God,” strummed Kent Dickerson on his guitar as English campers congregated around the camp pool. What we did not realize is that we were about to get a glimpse of just how great our God is. After five days of learning English, laughing and playing together, four youth prepared for baptism and shared the stories of how they came to Christ. Three of these four had poured their lives into the kids of the Miskolc orphanage over the previous year. And after they descended into the water, the spirit of God descended like a flood and a total of 16 people were baptized that day, including five orphanage kids and one from our village of Miskolc. From the orphanage, first Arpi and Roli and Bandi (whom we have known 10 years) came into the water and then Evi and Jozsi.

One would be hard pressed to find a dry eye by the pool that day as kids we have prayed for years submitted their lives to Christ. But the move of God did not end there. Balu struggled with God all Friday night. On Saturday afternoon our friend and colleague, Csilla, received an sms message from him saying that he too had accepted Christ. Evi and others sms-ed Csilla to tell her they had begun reading Matthew.

But now our work has only just begun as these kids face an especially hard task of trying to live out their new found faith under the harsh realities of orphanage life. We are working hard to build a support structure for these kids and the Debrecen youth group is eager to be a part of that.

We are thankful to Ovilla Road Baptist Church for the effective part they played in English Camp and the PHV Chapel in Germany, many of whom have been praying for specific orphanage kids for years.