Thursday & Friday, July 3-4

It is now 9:45 pm in Kaposvar on 4th of July. I hope you all had a wonderful day of celebration. We spent most of ours in transit having left Atlanta on Thursday morning at 8:00 am. Getting through the Atlanta airport was unusually easy.

JFK was crazy, but we relaxed, played cards and let God work out all the details. I will never say anything bad about the Atlanta airport again. It may be chaos there, but it is organized chaos. JFK is just chaos. Just before boarding, they announced 2 flights to begin boarding and they were not going to call by sections, so "just come on." You can imagine 350 people scrambling to get in line to take the shuttle out to the plane...well, minus the 4 of us who sat calmly playing cards. Then we sat on the tarmac for 2 hours for various reasons.

When we finally took off, there was a great cheer throughout the plane.Sitting among us all was a little girl named Melinda and her mother. They both speak 5 languages including Hungarian and English so they were able to give us free Hungarian lessons throughout the long plane ride, when we weren't sleeping. We were also able to share with them why we were coming to Kaposvar. We exchanged phone and email so we will see what becomes of that.

Arriving in Kaposvar was easy...and at first all of our bags appeared to have arrived. However, one of the supply bags did not make it. These contain about 25 of the Bibles needed for camp on Monday. Pray that it is found and delivered to Barb's house tomorrow. The other 7 arrived with no problems. When we met the rest of the group on the other side of customs, we found out Abby (our team member from Washington) was missing her bag. Pray that this one is also found and delivered.A wonderful man named Imre drove us all to Kaposvar.

One good thing about the missing bags is we were all able to fit in the van including all of our luggage so we didn't have to stand around and wait for 2 more hours waiting for Csilla to see if her husband got on his flight (he was stand by). We have a terrific apartment in the church building. Imre and his wife, Babi, took us all for a quick bite to eat and to the grocery store to fill the refrigerator with breakfast items. They have not let us use any money yet. I think the church has provided all this so far. We have seen Jonas and his wife, and Éndre and his wife briefly as they stopped by before going to an evangelic meeting in another local town.

Tomorrow we will meet many of the children coming to camp. They are coming to the church to have a language test so we can decide what class to place them in. We will have a clown (Abby), face painting (Tina and I), and fingernail paintings (Tracy and Patty), and Brett will have frisbees or something. Pray for this time with the children. We didn't this opportunity last year so the children were as afraid of us as we were of them.

The church service is not being held at this church on Sunday due to the Evangelical meeting in the other town, Nagyatad. However, Tracy, Barb, Abby, Brett and Barb are going to provide a service at the jail. We had to turn in all of our information a week ago in order to be cleared, so Patty, Tina and I are trying to decide what to do about worship on Sunday. We have the whole church to ourselves so it may be a church meeting of 3 ladies on Sunday.

Well, I'm going to go join the others in Barb's living room. I think they actually made a pan of brownies will I was typing. Yummy!