October Update

Greetings from Eger!

The Lord has been blessing us so much and some very exciting things have taken place over the last few months in our lives and in our ministry; so much so, that I will have to be sparing with the details for this update, otherwise it would be too long!

Family
Firstly and most importantly, the greatest thing the Lord has done in our lives lately is the birth of our son: Nathaniel Nicholas. Nate (or Nandi, as some people in the church like to call him) was born September 1st at the county hospital here in Eger, and he is perfectly healthy and beautiful - praise the Lord!
Rosemary's labor wasn't short, but there were no complications, and Nick got to be there with her for the whole thing.
Obviously his birth has brought about a lot of changes in our lives - especially in that we are both very tired - but we are happy about this new stage in our lives, in our marriage, and ministry-especially for Rosemary.
Nick's parents will be coming to visit and see the baby for two weeks in October and November, which we are looking forward to.

Prayer Requests:

• Praise the Lord for the gift of our son Nathaniel
• Pray that God would watch over Nathaniel and take care of him
• Pray for us as we get used to being parents, that we would have much patience and energy and much wisdom from God

Calvary Chapel Eger
On September 23rd our church had a baptism at a lake near Eger. 5 people from the church were baptized, showing their commitment to following Jesus even in spite of the cold water. This was the first baptism service we've done in Eger, and it was a blessing to see many family members and friends come to the service - which was exactly what we had prayed for. This was actually our church's second baptism this summer - the first one being at the Summer Conference in Vajta, where 4 others were baptized. It has been a real blessing to see the fruit that God is bringing out of the ministry here in such as visible way, especially as 2 of those who were baptized had come into the church through this summer's English Camp outreach.
On September 30th our church had its founding meeting, in which we went through the necessary formalities to become an official church in the eyes of the government. This was a very big milestone in our ministry here, having come here a few years ago with a vision from the Lord to start a church in this city, and now arriving at the point where God has built a church and we are now officially registered. Praise the Lord for what He has done and continues to do! As you can imagine, there were a lot of preparations for this to happen, as we had to write by-laws and get official documents, and actually this process isn't quite complete yet as we are still waiting for approvals.
One other thing that is new in the church is that Shane Daniels - the church worship leader - has now been appointed an elder in the church. He is a blessing here and has been faithfully doing the work of an elder for some time now, even without the title. Shane will be leaving to America for 6 weeks in October and November, which will be a difficult time for us, not having his help, and having to cover his responsibilities and ministries.
This next Saturday - October 13th - we will be doing a music outreach in the city park. We have done these outreaches before, and they've been very effective. There will be a team coming from the Bible School in Vajta to serve with us, and with them we will also organize a follow up meeting for kids who came to the English Camp this summer.

Prayer Requests:

• Praise God for the growth in the church and the commitment to Him of those who were baptized. Pray for their continued spiritual growth as they follow Jesus.
• Praise God for the church He has begun here and for bringing us to the milestone of becoming officially registered. Please continue to pray for this, as there are still a few steps to make before we are finished.
  
• Pray for those in the church who God is raising up as new leaders in the different ministries - worship ministry, children's ministry, church leadership, etc...
• Pray that more men and families would join the church
• Pray that our outreaches to the city would be fruitful
• For the time that Shane is in America, that others would step up to fill the gap
  
• For the young believers to be founded in their faith and led by the Holy Spirit
  
• For the church to have a heart of worship
• For a great harvest of souls in Eger!
  

Thank you for your prayers and support! Please feel free to contact us; we would love to hear from you.

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

Birth Announcement

August Update

Greetings from Eger!

This summer has been very eventful and very hot! At the time we are writing this, Rosemary is 9 months pregnant, and only 9 days away from her due date. We are so excited to meet our baby boy in just a few days from now!

Calvary Chapel Eger
We have been so blessed to see growth in the church in the past few months, both as we see people growing in their walk with the Lord and as we see the church grow in numbers.
In July, many of us from the church went down to Vajta for the Summer Conference. It was a great week of relaxing, fellowship, and Bible teaching. At the end of the week 4 people from the church decided to show their commitment to following Jesus by being baptized!
In the next two months we will be saying goodbye to 2 families who have been in the church since we began two years ago. The Winkelmann family and the Kovács family have been a great blessing to the church, as mature believers who have been strong examples for the younger believers, as well as to us as friends. The husbands of these families: Bernie and Attila, have both served as elders in the church, and they will be greatly missed!

Prayer Requests:

• Praise God for the growth in the church!
• Pray for continued growth in the church - that God would build us up and use us in a mighty way to reach people in Eger for Jesus!
• Pray for those who have recently been baptized, that they would grow and be strong in their faith.
  
• Pray for the church as we say goodbye to the Kovács and Winkelmann families, that God would raise up others to be mature leaders.
• Pray for the Children's Ministry - that the girls will be able to handle the kids and do this ministry effectively while Rosemary is having the baby and unsure of when she will be able to do it again.
  

Outreaches:
- In early July, our friend Geof Stimack was in Eger, and presented a lecture in the Eger college/university about the scientific proofs for Biblical Creationism. Despite the fact that school was not in session, we drew a crowd of 65-70 people, and had very good responses, including many people who are interested in meeting with us and studying the Bible.

- From July 30 to August 4th, we held our second English Camp outreach here in Eger. This year we had 50 campers and 15 helpers. Along with the Hungarians from our church, who served by teaching and ministering to the kids, we had great helpers from Syracuse, San Diego, San Jose, and England.
At the camp our method of evangelism is "Friendship Evangelism," where we seek to build relationships with the students, and share the Gospel with them as we also share our lives with them. In addition to the Friendship Evangelism, every afternoon we had testimony times, where each day one of the helpers would talk about their life and how they became a believer. Even though this part of the camp wasn't compulsory for the campers, almost all of them came each day, and each time they heard the Gospel explained very clearly!
The camp was very fruitful! Many students prayed to receive Jesus, and many of them are already plugging into the church. One girl, named Szilvi, came to camp last year as a Buddhist, but during the course of this year's camp decided to become a Christian! Szilvi and others from the camp have started coming to church and worshiping and studying the Bible with us.

Prayer Requests:

• Praise God for those who have gotten saved through our recent outreaches!
  
• Pray for these new Christians, that they would be established in their faith.
  
• Pray for the many people who we have shared the Gospel with, that they would choose to put their faith in Jesus.
• Pray for a great harvest of souls in Eger!

Personal
Right now, the biggest focus of our lives is preparing for the baby! At the time we are writing this, we are expecting him to come any day, and we are very excited. We have (almost) everything in place for the baby to come, and we can't wait to hold him in our arms!
And, of course the baby has already started changing many things about our lives! We've been spending more time around the house, and more time together.
After 2 years of holding the Wednesday night Bible study in our apartment, we have moved it to the home of another couple, Jani and Tünde, to give us more privacy, which we need now with the baby coming.
We've been very blessed by the people in the church, who have been a great help. Girls from the church have been coming over to help Rosemary with chores, so that she can rest.
As we wait for the baby, Nick is taking a break from teaching the Bible studies, and is blessed to have help with that from Shane.
In general, we are really enjoying this time of our lives, and feel completely, absolutely blessed by God!

Prayer Requests:

• Praise God for a smooth and healthy pregnancy!
• Pray for Rosemary's delivery, that it would be easy and short, and that our son would be totally healthy.
  
• Pray for us, that God would make us into good parents, who are able to raise our son well and teach him to walk with God.

Thank you for your prayers and support! Please feel free to contact us; we would love to hear from you.

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

Oh Canada!

For the past 9 months, our church has had the blessing of having a couple from Vancouver, B.C. - Rob and Kitty Beck - as part of our fellowship. They spent a year teaching English in the nearby town of Heves, and came to our church during their time here.
This past Sunday we said goodbye to them, as they left to go back to Canada.
Rob and Kitty (and Bandito the férfi dog) are going to be missed, as they were a blessing to all us with their wisdom, maturity, and support.
Please pray that God would bless them as they go back, and that God would use the seeds that they planted for His Kingdom to bring about much good fruit here in Hungary.

Pictures and a Prayer Request

We don't often put up pictures of our church - mainly because we don't take many pictures during church, because we are too busy worshiping and being in fellowship!
But this past weekend we took some pictures, so in case you haven't seen it before, you can get a better "picture" of what our church is like.



Prayer Request
Please pray for our English Camp, which is coming up this summer. We do this camp as an outreach to local youth. We already have 22 kids officially signed up, and are counting on quite a few more.
Please pray that many kids would come to our camp, and that we would be able to powerfully and effectively share the Gospel message with them.

May Update

Greetings from Eger!

We are back in Eger now, after having been away in America for 5 weeks. Like any trip it felt long in some ways and too short in other ways, but we are glad to be back, and glad to be doing what the Lord has called us to do here in Eger.

Personal News
In America we went to two weddings, one for Nick's former roommate, Pisti, and the other for our good friend Naveen. Nick had the privilege of being the best man in both weddings! We also celebrated the wedding anniversary of Nick's parents, and visited friends and supporters in Southern California and Syracuse, NY.
The baby is growing well, and is totally healthy - Praise the Lord! The doctors tell us that Junior (as we call him for now, until we pick out a real name) is a boy! We are looking forward to meeting our son and raising him up in the Lord's ways.
Rosemary is also doing well carrying Junior - although she does have difficulty getting used to not sleeping on her back. But other than minor discomfort, everything is going great, and we are so thankful.
The baby is due on August 22, and will be born here in Eger. We have our big English Camp outreach on the first week of August, so we are praying that the baby won't come by then, but we're making plans in case that happens.
Nick has been swimming and mountain biking a lot in his free time, and Rosemary has been reading a lot about babies and trying to get some exercise herself. We are glad to both have more and more guys in the church for Nick to hang out with, as well as women and moms for Rosemary to hang out with.
All around we are very excited about what God is doing in our lives and we feel very blessed.

Prayer Requests:
- Praise God for the healthy pregnancy
- Pray for the health of Rosemary and the baby, and for a quick and easy delivery

Calvary Chapel Eger
Our church had its 2 year anniversary on Easter this year! Two years ago we started having Sunday services with a small group of people, and God has caused that group to grow and expand, and for people to get saved through it. When we look back over the last 2 years since we've started, we're just amazed at how God has worked among us and established us as Christians and as a Church.
Unfortunately, we couldn't be here for this anniversary, but we wrote a letter to the church, which they read aloud during the service.
While we were in America, Shane taught through the book of Jonah on Sundays, and on Wednesdays Attila and Shane shared the teaching schedule. If anything, it seems that the church is even stronger than when we left! Some of the fruit that shows us the church is doing well, is that while we were gone they organized on their own an outreach in a park, with the worship team playing music and sharing the Gospel, as others went and talked to people and invited them to church and talked with them about Jesus. They also organized a worship night on Good Friday which was well attended. We are so blessed to see these things!
Since April our church now rents an office in the building where we have our Sunday services. This is a great blessing, as we now have a place to do church business, like counseling, accounting, worship practice, etc... (I am actually writing you from the office right now!)
One thing which we are very glad to see is the expansion of our worship ministry. Shane has been doing a very good job of training people both musically and spiritually in what it means to lead worship. On Sundays there are usually 4 people in the band, but there are at least 7 people right now who are involved in the worship ministry in some way. Our worship team here has even begun to translating new songs into Hungarian - which is a blessing as it is always good to sing a new song unto the Lord.
This summer will be full of conferences and camps. At the family camp this summer quite a few of the new Christians from our fellowship will be baptized!
The highlight of our summer will be the English Camp (July 30 - Aug 4), which is an outreach we do to local high school and college age kids. We have helpers coming from Syracuse, Vista, Denver, and San Jose, to spend a week with Hungarian youth, teaching them English and sharing the Lord with them through Friendship Evangelism. The picture here is of the poster we use to advertise the camp in local schools.

Prayer Requests:
- Praise God for the work He is doing here in Eger - for the church and for those in it who have committed their lives to following Jesus
- Pray that many people in Eger would turn to God and be saved
- Pray for an outpouring of God's Spirit on our church
- Pray for our English Camp - that God would bless it and that many young people would come and get to hear about the Lord

Thank you for your prayers and support! Please feel free to contact us; we would love to hear from you.

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

Retreat

Our church retreat was really blessed. Thank you to those of you who prayed for us.
26 of us from the church went about an hour from Eger from Friday to Sunday (Feb 2-4) for a weekend of hiking, worshiping the Lord, and studying the Word.
Our prayer for the weekendwas that this even would be something which would bring the church closer to each other and to the Lord, both of which I believe happened.
We are praising God for the great work He is doing in the hearts of all the Jani's in our church (we have 3)!
Sunday evening, one Jani told me - "I really feel that I got closer to God this weekend!" Praise the Lord for that! This is the Jani who is Kati's brother; we'd been praying for him for over a year, and he just got saved in December, and we've seen a radical change in his life.
We are also praising God for the changes He has brought about in the lives of the other two Jani's - forming them into true spiritual leaders, first in their relationships and slowly in the church as well.

Praise God for what He is doing among us, and lets pray that God would continue to work in a mighty way in Eger!

January Update

Greetings from Eger!

Let us start with the big news: We are doing our part to grow the church in Eger—Rosemary is pregnant! Our due date is August 22, so we’ve got a while to wait, but we are very excited, as are all the people in the church.

Personal
The main thing going on with us right now is the pregnancy. Rosemary hasn’t been feeling well—she has morning sickness all day long—and because of this she hasn’t been able to do as much as before. You who know Rosemary know that she loves to be active, and she is getting tired of being sick and not feeling well.
We have found a private doctor, which we have to pay for, but we think its worth it. Rosemary will deliver at the county hospital here in Eger.
Aside from this, Nick is also glad to have guys to hang out with; he goes mountain biking with Shane and a new guy in the church named Jani.

Prayer Requests
- Praise the Lord for the wonderful gift of a baby
- Pray for Rosemary to feel better and for everything to go well with the pregnancy
- Pray that God would prepare us to be good, godly parents
- Pray for Rosemary, as she is not able to be as active as before, which is hard for her

Calvary Chapel Eger
During the month of December, our worship leader and assistant, Shane Daniels, was in the States visiting family, which meant that Nick had a lot more to do, but it was a blessing to see people in the church step up and help out.
Kati, our translator, has been added to our leadership team now, but for the last few weeks has had to work in Tatabánya – about 3 hrs from Eger. Thankfully, she is still able to come on Sundays, but because of her absence Nick has begun teaching in Hungarian on Wednesdays, which he enjoys.
Our Christmas service was very blessed.
Some friends of ours from Debrecen, David and Csilla, came up to do some special Christmas music, and many from the church brought their family members and guests.
We have some new faces in the church. For a long time the majority of the church was young girls, but recently we have had more men and elderly people joining the church. Nick has been invited by some ladies in the church to speak at a club for women who suffer from cancer, and he was been able to share God’s word with them.
We praise the Lord for the huge changes that He has brought about in the lives of people in the church. As we simply teach them God’s Word, we see people’s hearts change. One person in particular is Kati’s brother, János, whom we have known for a while, but recently God spoke to Him and his whole attitude changed, and now he has a desire to know God and study His Word and be in fellowship. Jani has also joined the worship team since then.
From Feb 2-4 our church will have its first Church Retreat! We are going to spend the weekend in Mátrafüred – about an hour from Eger. We had 25 places available, and we have 28 people who signed up, so it will be packed. Pápai Jancsi will come from Debrecen to teach a few Bible studies, and we will spend time worshiping and being in fellowship.

Prayer Requests
- Praise God for the work He has been doing in the hearts of those in the church.
- Pray for the Church Retreat from Feb 2-4 in Mátrafüred, that it would be a blessed time of fellowship, which draws the church closer to the Lord and to each other.
- Pray for those who are new in the church to become established in their faith.
- Pray for more Children’s Ministry workers.

Thank you for your prayers and support! Please feel free to contact us; we would love to hear from you.

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