Hungary for God

Hey everyone!

I'm excited to be here, writing the very first of what (I hope) will be many blogs about my travels in Hungary this upcoming fall. For those of you who don't know, I will be spending this upcoming quarter in Vajta, Hungary to attend the Calvary Chapel Bible College there. As my blog name (playfully!) suggests, my heart and passion to go to Bible college is driven by the desire to know "the depths of the riches of the wisdom and the knowledge of God." (Romans 11:33) "As the deer pants for the water, so my soul pants for You, O God." (Psalm 42:1). This verse has increasingly described my heart for God and, specifically, His Word. I am so blessed to be able to go to Hungary to spend 3.5 months in specific, purposeful, and I imagine intense study of His Word, in order that I may know Him more. I hope this blog will be a place where I can relay both day-to-day stories of my experiences and deeper truths that God will faithfully reveal to me throughout my time there.

I also hope to use this blog as a means of keeping everyone back home updated with prayer requests for the trip. As I leave a fantastic family behind in San Luis Obispo and elsewhere, I am overwhelmed knowing that though physically absent, I am still united with all of you through the precious blood of our Savior Christ. I humbly ask that you keep me in your prayers during this time, and, on my end, I will keep praying for the Lord to move mightily in your lives. Recently, I've been reading the book A Chance to Die, a biography on Amy Carmichael written by Elisabeth Elliot. One of the things that Amy Carmichael most emphasized in her missionary work was prayer, wisely recognizing that "the work she was called to was without question God's work, and could not possibly be done without the help of God's people--'prayer warriors.'" God has been showing me recently how dependent I am on His strength and grace for every action of my life, and how pleasing an aroma prayer is to Him when we request of Him that very strength and grace we so desperately need. I hope you can come alongside me in prayer as prayer warriors for the work that He has for me while away in Hungary.

Having said that, my desire in prayer for all of you is to copy the Apostle Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1:
"For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His great might."

I am seriously so grateful and overwhelmed by all my friends and family who have been so incredibly loving and supportive already of this trip. I really do thank God for you so so much, and I look forward to keeping up with you all as I take this journey with God :)