November update

Greetings from Eger!

This past September we had the opportunity to spend 5 weeks in the United States, which was a great blessing. We were encouraged and refreshed, and it was great to meet with all of our family, friends, and supporters. This was the first time we have been back “home” since we got married 2 years ago!

Calvary Chapel Eger
During the time we were gone, Shane Daniels, our new worship leader since July, taught in the church and led worship. It is really nice to have this help and be able to leave sometimes, which we haven’t really been able to do until now. We got back to Eger to find some new faces in the church, most notably a young married couple with a new baby, Ági and András.
We continue to do outreach, and are blessed to see some fruit from it. Every Friday Shane leads a group of youth from our church into town to put up flyers and talk to people about the Lord and invite them to church. A man named Zoltán has started coming to the church recently through this outreaches, and we are blessed to see the people in our church wanting to reach out to their comunity and reach people for Jesus.
On November 9th, we organized an outreach to business people through a seminar taught by our friend Geof Stimack. The turnout wasn’t what we had hoped for, but we did have some people who were very interested in hearing more about the Lord, and we are seeking to follow up with them this week. We also had one man, named László, who has been to some of our previous outreaches, and is very interested, but still hasn’t made a decision to follow Jesus. In Eger there is a huge interest in Eastern Religion, and we have had many people come to our outreaches who are trying to decide between Christ and Krishna or Buddha. Please pray that they would not be decieved!
We are praying about God’s leading for some other outreaches that we could do in Eger, as well as praying about starting a new Bible Study in the nearby city of Heves (Hevesh). There is a couple who are making the 1 hr bus trip to our church on Sundays from Heves, and also some girls from Kál (near Heves) who got saved at our English Camp outreach, so we are praying for the Lord’s timing as to when to go and start a new Bible study there.
We have started organizing events for our Friday night “Fellowship Nights,” with the hope that people will be able to invite friends and co-workers to them. This Friday we are organizing a Thanksgiving celebration at the language school where Kati works. We are praying this would be a way that we could meet people and share the Lord with them.

Prayer requests:
- For much fruit from our outreaches and for many to be saved!
- For God’s leading and provision for more and different kinds of outreach in Eger
- For God’s leading on starting Bible studies in Heves and other nearby cities
- For the people in our church—most of them are struggling financially and having trials in regard to their families. Pray that the Lord would help them to trust in Him through these difficulties and use these trials to make them more dependent on Him
- For the outreach team from the Bible College in Vajta that is coming to Eger on December 1-3
- For the Women’s Christmas Tea on December 16th
- For the Lord to bring more men to the church and raise them up into leaders
- For the people in the church—some of them have a lot of demands on their time and have not been coming to church because of it


Personal
When we first started the church we had an “open door” policy for everyone, where they could just come over any time they wanted. In the beginning, when the church was quite small, almost no one ever came over. But with the church growing, this past summer our house was almost constantly full of people. Obviously this took a toll on us personally, so one thing we have been learning to do is to set up some boundaries on who comes over when. This is especially important for our marriage. We have also been holding on to our “Sabbath Day” (for us Monday) very seriously as a day of rest, where we focus only on the Lord and on each other.
We are doing well and are both really happy to be here in Eger, and excited about what God is doing.
Shane is going to be gone for 5 weeks in December and January, which will mean that things will be busier for us and we will have more to do, as well as making things a bit lonely! He and Nick are good friends, and we enjoy working with him. We also miss April Shondee, who served with us for a year and a half before moving back to Denver after getting sick.

Prayer requests:
- For our marriage to be strong and a good example
- For strength and encouragement as things get a bit lonely sometimes
- For Rosemary’s problems with her hands and feet
- For Nick’s skin problems (getting worse in the winter)
- For Rosemary’s Hungarian to continue to improve

Thank you for your prayers and support.
God bless you,

Nick and Rosemary Cady
Csiky Sándor u. 60
3300 Eger, Hungary
+36-20-263-3174
cady@chello.hu

August update

Greetings from Eger!
This past month has been very busy for us, with outreaches and many visitors, but, Praise God, along with being eventful, it has also been fruitful!

Calvary Chapel of Eger
Usually summer is a slow time in the church, as many people travel and students are away for the break, but we have been seeing God bring new people into our fellowship this summer.
This fall, we will move to a larger room in the same building, to accomodate the growth of the church, and to give us more room for the worship team, which is pretty cramped right now!
One interesting thing is that through a brother from Budapest, we have gotten in contact with a family in a village near Eger called Szihalom, and now every week Nick is driving there and bringing people to church in Eger. The son of the family, Norbi, has since given his life to the Lord, and many others from the village are showing up and asking if they can come to church too! One of these guys in particular recently told Nick that he too would like Jesus to work in his life and change him! God is at work!
Shane Daniels is now here and settling in nicely. He is a great blessing to the church, as he leads the worship team, assists Nick, and will be discipling young men. Shane will be teaching in the church for the time that we are away in September.
The church will be going through a time of transition soon; at the end of this month Andi Gombai, who has been our translator, will be moving back to Budapest. Kati will become the main translator, and probably she will have some help with that from other girls during September while we are gone. When we return, Nick is planning to start teaching Wednesdays in Hungarian and Sundays in English, with Kati translating.

• Praise God for the work that He is doing in Eger and in the surrounding villages
• Pray that many people here would come to a saving knowledge of Jesus and be plugged into the church and discipled
• Praise God that He is answering our prayers and bringing more men and families into the church. Pray that He would continue to do that!
• Pray for spiritual awakening in Eger and in Szihalom
• Pray for Shane and the church for the time that we are in America
• Pray for the church as it goes through this time of transition
• Pray for Rosemary as she disciples the girls and leads the women's ministry, especially as the 2 others on staff will be leaving
• Pray for our Hungarian, as Nick will teach the mid-week study and Rosemary does the children's ministry speaking a foreign language

Outreaches
In the last month, we have had two bigger outreaches: a VBS kids' camp, and an English Camp for teenagers.
The VBS was not as well attended as we hoped, although there were kids who came out, and Rosemary, with help from many girls in the church as well as some friends from America, taught them about Jesus and had a great time. We realized the spiritual attack that was upon us when we got word from one of the mothers that many people in town had gotten the idea that this was a Children's Camp organized by the Hare Krishnas!

The English Camp was a BIG success! We'd been praying a lot before the camp that God would prepare the hearts of the kids who would come to receive the Gospel. During the camp, 2 girls prayed to receive Jesus as their Savior, and others recommitted their lives to the Lord. More were very interested in checking out the church, and others in coming to our English Club outreach, which meets every week, and is a tool for us to make relationships with people in town, through which we can share the Gospel.

• Pray for those who got saved and gave their lives to the Lord during the English Camp (Bianka, Nikol, Balázs, & Tamás), that they would be plugged into the church and discipled
• Pray for the kids who had seeds planted in them, that Satan would not be able to come and steal those seeds away, but that they would be watered and bear much fruit
• Pray for the English Club to be well attended and an effective tool

April
Please keep April Shondee in prayer. For the last 4 weeks she has been sick. The doctors still aren't completely sure what she has, but they are getting closer to the answer. On Monday she is scheduled to have an endoscope to see what the root of the problem is. They have narrowed it down that it is not a neurological nor a dermatological problem, but an internal medicine issue.
We have been doing everything we can to help April, and have spent many hours with her in the hospital, as they try to figure out what is wrong with her. She will be moving into our apartment this week, so that we can better take care of her. It looks like April will be going home to be with her family during this trying time; her absence will leave a gap in the church administration and the children's ministry.

• Pray for April's healing!

Personal
We are tired after this month of visitors and outreaches, and are looking forward to our time in America.
This week Nick submitted his request for an extension on his residence permit. They could say no, but we are trusting in God, that He is sovereign and that His will will be done.
We would love to see all of you while we are in America; we have a busy schedule, so if you would like to meet, please let us know ahead of time so we can make plans.

• Pray that Nick would get his residence permit extension so he can stay in Hungary
• Rosemary has not been to the refugee camp this summer, and will not be there again until the fall. Serif, who moved there to visit the camp has not been able to be in the camp because of his job. Those of you who have loved to support this ministry-please keep praying for the camp and for Serif.

Thank you for your prayers and support.
God bless,
Nick and Rosemary Cady

Csiky Sándor u. 60
3300 Eger
Hungary
+36-20-263-3174
cady@chello.hu

July Update

Greetings from Eger!

Our lives seem to stay busy, but summer time is always especially busy, with all of the summer outreaches and conferences.
We really ask for you to pray for us this summer as we seek to reach out to Eger and make disciples of Jesus Christ!

Calvary Chapel of Eger
One hard thing about summer time is that many people are away, and some of the studens have now graduated and moved away from Eger for good. We were very sad to say goodbye to one girl in particular, Vica, whom we have seen God change and grow so much over the past year. The hard part of ministry is getting close to people, seeing God work in their life, and then having to say goodbye.
We are encouraged by other students though, like Kati and Brigi, who after their graduation have decided to settle down in Eger and try to find work here so they can be part of the church.
We continue to see God bringing new people to the church and causing us to grow in Him.
Shane Daniels, from Calvary Chapel San Jose, CA, is moving out this month to serve the church in Eger as a worship leader and an assistant to Nick. We see Shane's moving out here as an answer to much prayer!

• Praise God for answering our prayers for a worship leader/assistant
• Praise God for the obvious work He is doing in the lives of people in the church
• Please pray for a great harvest of souls in Eger!
• For endurance in planting seeds for the Kingdom
• For more men and families to join the church
• For those in the church to stir up their spiritual gifts and step up into ministry
• For Shane, that God would effectively use him here to build up the church body

Outreaches
This summer we have 2 main outreaches planned; a Children's Vacation Bible School (July 17-21), and an English Camp (July 31-August 4)
The goal with the VBS is to reach out to the many young families who live in the low-income housing area where the church meets on Sundays. As our church is made up of mostly young singles, we are praying that God would add more families to the fellowship as well, and that this Children's program would help us to meet families and share Jesus with them.
The English Camp is geared towards reaching teenagers and college students and to share the Gospel with them through "Friendship Evangelism." We have 35 students signed up, which we think is great considering this is the first year for the camp.
Organizing these camps was something we were very involved in in Debrecen, and something which we have seen to be a very effective tool in God's hands. It was actually through the English Camp in 2003 that our church got started, as Judit received Jesus, and Rosemary and I began to travel to Eger to meet with her and disciple her.

• Please pray for the VBS to be used by God to bring families into the church; that many kids would come and that we would have the opportunity to share the Gospel with their parents as well
• Pray for God to work at the English Camp, and to work in the hearts of the kids.
• Pray that we would have many opportunities to share the Gospel with students and that God would make their hearts fertile soil that receives the Word and then produces much fruit
• Pray for those who heard the Gospel through Geof Stimack's Da Vinci Code presentations in early June
• Pray that God would be at work in this city, drawing many to Himself

Personal
We were blessed with the opportunity to travel a bit recently. Along with a leadership conference in Vajta, we were also able to take a trip to England in June.
In England we took a little time just to be together, as well as meeting up with a girl from the church in Eger who is now working outside of London as an aupair. We also spent 4 days in York, attending a pastor's conference, which was a great blessing as we both got to spend time with our pastors from America, who were both teaching there.
This September we will be going to America for a visit. Neither of us has been home to visit our families, friends, or churches in almost 2 years, so we are really looking forward to it. While we are there we will also attend the engagement of our good friend Naveen in Dallas.
One of the blessings of God bringing Shane here is that it gives us the opportunity to do things like visit home, and have someone who can lead the church in the meantime.

• Please pray for God to give us much endurance during this busy summer season
• For us both as we both have physical ailments (Rosemary's hands and feet, and now we both have skin problems)
• For our marriage to be strong and founded upon God's Word

Thank you for your prayers and support! They mean a lot to us.
Please contact us; we'd love to hear from you.

Blessings,
Nick and Rosemary

Contact info:
Csiky Sándor u. 60 Fsz/1
3300 Eger
Hungary
Home: +36-36-333-502
Mobile: +36-20-263-3174
nickcady@chello.hu