Winckles Family Update

English and Ice Cream

One of the highlights of the summer months is the annual English and Ice Cream event. The regular English class takes a break during the summer, but people are still eager to get together for fun, food, fellowship, and of course, to speak English! This year Manna organized the English activity, in which people discussed the characteristics that are important for a friend to have. The general consensus was that a friend should be someone you can count on when things get difficult.

 

Following the English practice Katie served up four flavors of ice cream, with toppings (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and blueberry)! Many people thought Larry was crazy for putting both chocolate sauce and salted peanuts on his vanilla ice cream! How can sweet and salty go together? But the people who were brave enough to try it really enjoyed it!

 

 

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Excursion to the Budapest Hills

Each month in the summer we try to plan a special weekend excursion for the church. In June we planned an excursion to the Budapest Hills, including the Erzsébet Lookout Tower and the Normafa recreation area. The weather was gorgeous, and we enjoyed a good time walking and talking together. The excursion ended everyone sampling some delicious rétes (strudel) and lángos (fried dough) with sour cream and grated cheese! According to many, it is the best lángos in the world!

 

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A visit from the Dunns

Scott Dunn and his kids recently spent a week revisiting Romania, where they had served as missionaries for four years. It has been seven years since Stephen and Lydia were last in the country. On this return visit Stephen brought along his wife, Amanda, in order to introduce her to the country that had had such a great impact on his life. On the Dunns' return trip back to the States they were able to spend a day with us in Budapest. It was delightful getting reacquainted with the family!

Spring Arbor Cross Cultural Team

Every second year Rob and Fran Kingsley bring a group of students from Spring Arbor University to Poland and Hungary on a cross-cultural experience. As a part of each trip they visit the Budapest Ministry Center for a cultural and historical presentation and they also attend the Sunday morning worship service of the Budapest Free Methodist Church. This year there was quite a large group -- sixteen students and two leaders.

One highlight of their visit was a retrospective presentation given by Júlia and Ildikó. The ladies spoke about their experiences in growing up in Hungary during the Communist years, one in a Christian home and one not. They also sang some of the old propaganda songs from that era.