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Dear Friends and Ministry Partners,
Wow! The last few months have been filled with exciting, challenging, faith-growing, and Kingdom-building events. Let us give you some brief highlights: (Remember, CHE stands for Community Health Evangelism, a strategy for doing wholistic outreach and development among the poorest of the poor.)
EVENTS
Laura makes palacsintas for the outreach
September 8 – 10 — Our MEK (CHE) Central Hungary Team and the leaders from the Roma community in Boldog presented their second annual outreach festival. Two nights featured Christian films and one night Ron preached a Gospel message. Music and favorite foods also highlighted each evening. Twenty-five Roma signed up for follow-up visits or courses. Laci and Eszter Daroczi and Feri Olah, MEK Central Team members, are currently holding weekly Alpha Course classes with those who are interested.
CHE EuroNet Retreat
September 22 – 24 — The CHE EuroNet Network held its second retreat for CHE Team and Board members. Ron currently serves on the Global CHE Networks Representative Council and as CHE’s Central Europe Coordinator. In this position he is responsible for overseeing the expansion of CHE into new nations and regions of Central Europe and the Balkans. He was also tasked with forming the CHE EuroNet Network of all CHE Teams operating in these countries and bringing them together annually for a time of refreshment, inspiration, sharing best practices, team building and training. This year 27 of us gathered from 6 nations at a simple retreat facility near a beautiful mountain lake in southwestern Bosnia. These folks are all pioneering new wholistic development ministries with the Roma/Gypsy and greatly appreciated the opportunity to draw encouragement from one another and from our Lord Jesus Christ.
October 6 – 8 — All of our MEK Hungary Teams met for their annual planning retreat at Lake Balaton. The highlight of this weekend was having Randy Schmor, Director of NAB’s Gateway Teams, and Steve Liberti, NAB Missionary with Proclaim Ministries, with us to plan a host of short-term Gateway team projects and a one-week Proclaim music camp and concert outreach campaign for 2018. Contact us if you would like to be considered for a summer team project.
October 10 – 14 — We packed our backpacks and flew south to spend four days hanging out with the CHE Albania Team. It was a time of celebration! Two years ago, CHE Albania, our flagship Team, lost their sole financial supporter. Ron and several fellow NAB’ers have been working with them since then to train them in how to find new sustainable partnerships. This year God brought them together with a new major partner, World Poverty Solutions, as well as several others.
October 19 – 23 — We drove south to Stip, Macedonia, with Finnish CHE workers, Dr. Ture and Ingvar Huhtamaki. We have been praying for three years for an open door to establish CHE Teams in Macedonia. Dr. Huhtamaki is providing the contacts to do so. We spent the weekend with Jimmy P.G. Simon, a Nigerian who has planted 19 churches in eastern Macedonia. We visited and spoke in ten of those congregations and identified several communities that would be ready for a CHE project. We are waiting now for Jimmy’s decision on what to do next.
October 24 – 25 — On our way back home we spent two days near Novi Sad, Serbia, with NAB national worker, Marijana Čizmanski, surveying Roma communities and meeting potential partners. Our hearts were thrilled as we witnessed two communities opening wide to her and ZZ Serbia.
November 3 – 4 — We flew home to Phoenix on October 30. We dropped our bags and headed to the Ignite Christian Training Center near Show Low, Arizona, to present a CHE Vision Seminar to 36 Native Americans and those who work with them. A week-long CHE training course is now on the drawing board for the end of February.
We will now be in the US until March 4. In late January and early February, we would like to visit supporting churches in the lower MidWest. Please contact us if you are interested in having us come.
Yours for His Kingdom,
Ron and Jeannie Seck