Little Laci is Born

"Would you take me to the hospital?" after opening my eyes this morning, at 4.30 a.m., I fully agreed with Szandra's suggestion. Thankfully, Pam Konya, our director's wife was ready and willing to come over to watch Fanni (Luca was at grandma's house). The ride to Budapest was smooth and easy, Szandra did not seem to hurry - I thought. We got there, and by 6.45 she was admitted to the delivery room.... and the baby was born at 8.06 a.m. For sure "Little Laci," our son, is a fast little fellow. And strong. And handsome. Thankfully Szandra was and has been doing amazingly well. Hopefully by Sunday mom and boy will be back home. God has given us another child - but he is still His. We are and will be responsible to watch, protect and raise God's property, and we hope that very soon our boy (as well as our girls) will choose to be God's child.
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buying...? building...? BUYING!

For almost a year Szandra and I were praying and going back and forth about our housing plans. We knew that we wanted to serve with Word of Life Hungary on the long term, and we knew that we wanted to live in our own home. During last fall we asked an architect to make the floorplans for our "dream-home." After getting some cost estimates we realized that those dreams could never go true. After two radical downsizings we had to admit that building would be a financial burden for the rest of our life.
Meanwhile we kept an eye open to the local used house market. There was one home, in particular, we liked. We checked it in August, 2007 - but the price of it then was out of our range. Now a year later that home was still out on the market, and the owners took our offer that was about 80% of what they were asking for. It ended up costing us far less than a new home would have. So, guess what, we are BUYING our own home. We like it, it is big, comfortable, modern and ready for us to move in.
Please praise God with us for His provision. And, pray as we are working through the details of the purchase. Some minor repairs, painting and other things will have to be done, our new baby will have to be born and camp will have to be finished, before we move in. We need wisdom in our time-management, patience and wisdom in deciding how to finance the house. Would you like to see a few pictures of the house? Here they are.