With Gratitude

I am so thankful for each of you who pray for me and encourage me.  It's November already and almost American Thanksgiving.  I just wanted to share with you a few snapshots of my classroom and life here in Hungary.  

Learning Highlight:  This fall we studied Ancient China, including how they invented many technologies that we still use today such as paper and fireworks. 

 

 Service Project: The K-2 Students wrote thank you notes to our non-teaching staff at school, many of whom are Hungarian. The students learned about the other jobs such as cleaning or working with money that people at our school do.

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Pen Pals: Did you ever have a pen pal?  My class is SO excited to be pen pals with my niece's class in Minnesota.  We worked on a class letter and writing introductions. 

Studying: This is where you find me many Saturdays. I'm sitting at a coffee shop working on my grad school projects. It's been challenging but God is continuing to teach me that He is faithful.  He has and is equipping me to "teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:19-20). I was encouraged to think of this text in a different way by a recent missions sermon by my former Pastor John Piper. He discusses teaching as an important and vital part of making disciples of all the nations. 

Thank you for partnering with me as with God's help, I am teaching "the nations". Teaching with the promise that His word will not return void and he will bring many, many to worship him alone.  I'm also teaching the children of those who go to other and teach!  I am humbled and grateful to be part of what God is doing to magnify his Son.