Last Friday evening was the Opening Conference here at the Bible Institute. All students and staff gathered in the Word of Life castle for a formal dinner and fellowship, many of us just getting to know one another. Shortly after dinner was the first meeting of the weekend. A guest from Michigan came for the weekend to speak on Psalm 119 and to get everyone ready for the wonderful year of learning the Word of God. After his message, an overview of what was to come for the rest of the weekend, everyone stayed in the hall. I got on stage and sang with a bunch of people while the piano was played by a few people and guitars were banged on by Felipe and Chicky. I even sang "If I Ain't Got You" while Yana occasionally did some harmonies. This was the night I realized that I was going to love being here. There are many wonderful musicians that the Lord has brought here and they are so open to playing and jamming all night! I love it!
Saturday was filled with conferences as well. Guest Pastor Thomas Teall spoke about the different names given to the Word. Each meeting was full of life and sincerity. Meal times, of course, are just as full of life and rejoicing. We ended the weekend with some school orientations concerning the handbook we were to read, schedules, and whatnot. Most orientations were filled with information that was self-explanatory. Much was stuff that everyone knew and can easily follow. However, the point of those orientations, I think, was for the staff and deans to establish themselves and to show the Biblical reasoning behind all 4,479,358 rules. Monday morning classes started at nine instead of the regular time of eight o'clock. For the first week, it seemed all laid back. First year students went through a course called Personal Evangelism all week while the second year students went through Open-Air Evangelism. Both were to get each of us ready to come out to the streets of Budapest and share the love of Jesus Christ with whoever would listen.
While getting ready for Thursday and Friday, we students also had a study hour every night from [like] 7-8. During that hour every night I started doing my chapter reviews. These are where I have to, in ten words or less, title each chapter of the Bible. I started in the Psalms and then somehow worked my way back to Genesis. I have much, much work to do on these.
So anywaaays! After the week of classes concerning evangelism, today is the second day in Budapest. I write this on the charter bus taking us in to the city. Yesterday's evangelism was a bit difficult for me because of the lack of English speakers. Just when I was about to throw it down and give up, which is what Satan wants exactly, I got the chance to sing some worship songs with Chicky. He played much too fast and a bit too high for my liking, but I stuck with him. I felt that this was the way for me to evangelize even though the crowd and myself didn't speak the same language. After all, music is international!
So now I'm in the bus on the way to the second day of street evangelizing. I was told that where the "Blue Team" is headed has many English speakers. II am very excited about that because I want to share the gospel and His everlasting love with everyone I meet!! Also, I want to sing(:
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