Dear Friends, We had another wonderful month! Some of our students went on different short mission trips in November, some of them will go in January. It’s wonderful to see their joy as they are able to serve in different countries. Please pray for those who heard the Gospel through these trips, and please pray for the remaining trips to …

The Bible Institute year is in full swing, and students have begun their regular ministries, such as teaching Sunday School, music ministries, evangelism, and more. In October we had one week without classes, instead our students and staff split into 8 groups for several days, serving with different churches around Hungary, helping them with evangelistic events and in other practical …

Dear Friends, We are so excited! The students are here! We cannot express how happy it makes us to see their joyful faces and to see their desire to learn more about God through His Word.The Opening Weekend was wonderful (you can watch all three meetings below). Since then, we already had a Family Night with our Family Group (a …

Dear Friends, Summer is over, which means our summer camps are over as well. We had 7 blessed weeks with around 700 campers and about 200 summer staff. We had many helpers who were campers just the year before, but are finally old enough to be summer staff. Amy and Haley -though they love being campers- cannot wait to graduate …

Dear Friends, We are in week 6 of our camps, next week will be our last week this year. We are very grateful for these past weeks and for the many decisions made by our campers. To God be the glory!Chris was the main evangelist during week 4, teaching at the evening meetings Sunday through Wednesday.This week he is one …

Dear Friends, Camps started on June 26! Haley is a camper this week along with over 80 other campers. She loves it so much! The kids and I go in for a few hours during free time to hang out with the campers and summer staff. It’s really hot this week (between 93-100 degrees F), so the only place it’s …

Dear Friends, May 28 was graduation day at WOL Hungary. We are so proud of our students finishing well. It was bittersweet seeing the students all done with their academic studies (they still have summer ministry to do before they get their official diplomas). Our kids truly got to know many of them and it’s never easy to say bye …

Dear Friends, By the end of this month, we will have the graduation ceremony and our wonderful students will be done with the BI for this year. We had a fantastic bunch of students from 15 different countries. I am so glad Chris and I got to know most of them during the year and that due to my job …

Dear Friends, We have two more month before another school year ends at the BI. Per usual, these two months will be very busy. Next weekend will be our annual Missions Conference (normally held at the end of January, but due to COVID we had to move it to the beginning of April). After that our students will go to …

Late Friday afternoon we received word that the staff of Word of Life Ukraine had decided to try and make it across the Hungarian border. By that time, the Ukrainian government had declared that Ukrainian men aged 18-60 will not be allowed to leave the country. In the early morning hours of Saturday, a bus and a few cars arrived …

January was a turbulent month for many, a difficult start to a new year. Here at WOL Hungary, we have had our share of sicknesses – Covid and otherwise. Because of a surge of cases in our circles, we did need to postpone our Missions Conference to April. We also needed to decrease the number of Winter Camps planned. Thankfully, …

Dear Friends, Blessed New Year! As we start a new year, our prayer is that we would rely on God and trust Him more and more. So many things happen that we don’t understand, and we want to learn to truly trust Him despite our circumstances. We know that He knows best and that nothing happens without His knowledge, so …

Dear Friends, This month we had our annual staff Christmas party and it was so good to be together and fellowship. Joshua Bramer, one of our resident teachers gave a message and reminded us about the awesomeness of the Christmas story and how relevant it is in our everyday lives even after two thousand years. Looking back this year, we …

October was a busy and exciting month at Word of Life Hungary. And a challenging but exciting month for the James family. As you may have read in our family update or elsewhere, Chris’ dad (Dave James) went home to be with the Lord on October 21st after coming down with Covid. We appreciate all the prayers, as well as …

Dear Friends, The Bible School Opening Weekend was on Sept 17-19. Chris was translating the main events and he was also singing some of the songs. After the Opening Weekend, classes started and Chris and I often just stopped during their breaks and enjoyed watching them play table football or table tennis in the classroom. Last year due to COVID …

Dear Friends, We are so excited for our new school year at the Bible Institute! Today we had our first big BI staff meeting, and in a few weeks our students are going to arrive. We are expecting over 60 students from 17 different countries! I will be the Academic Assistant this year, and will remain the Scholarship Coordinator. As …

Dear Friends, The last week of camp started today, and we want to finish well. It’s been a wonderful, but tiring summer. Chris had the privilege to teach English for a couple of weeks, share a message two nights, share his testimony one week, and to help with the sound for a few weeks. It’s been amazing to be part …

Dear Friends, Camps started on June 20, and currently we are in our second week of camps. Our girls are campers this week, and Chris and I (and the boys) are teaching English. We usually have American groups come to teach English, but this (and last year) due to COVID we had to ask our American staff and BI students …

What an encouraging month May was! God opened doors for us to return mostly to normal just in time for us to end the Bible Institute year on a high note. In these last few weeks we have been able to resume classroom instruction, we even had guest teachers come from the United States to teach in person. The students …

Dear Friends, As you can imagine, our students had to go through a lot of changes this year. They only have one more month left of the BI, and it will be a busy one. 🙂 We are planning on having our annual Missions Conference in a couple of weeks (although it won’t be open to the public unfortunately this …

Dear Friends, Unfortunately the third wave in Hungary is hitting the country hard right now. Early this month we had to send our Hungarian students home due to further regulations in our country. The good news is that people are getting vaccinated at a high rate and over 20% of the country has been vaccinated by now. Our hope is …

Dear Friends, We have exciting news! A month ago we had 100 registered campers, now we have over 460! Praise God! Please pray for registration to go smoothly and for many campers to come so they can hear the Gospel for the first time and make a decision. Please also pray for our American groups to be able to come …

Dear Friends, This year I, Lili, will be responsible for camp registration. We have 7 weeks of camps planned, from June to August. Registration started on January 19, and we have a 100 registered campers by now (Feb 1). Praise God! We hope to have around 1000 campers this summer. Please pray for many campers to come to our camps, …

Dear Friends, Happy New Year! One thing we kept reminding ourselves about last year was God’s faithfulness. The more we meditated on who He is, the less scary the days were. We are reading Psalms in our Quiet Time these days and it helps tremendously to reflect on God’s characteristics. We often read in these passages about His love, His …

Dear Friends, Can you believe it’s the last month of the year? As we wrap up this calendar year, we look back with so much gratefulness. We couldn’t have imagined what this year has in store for us, but God knew exactly every moment of it, and we rest in the knowledge that God is in control today as much …