Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Job description: office work (finances, building management, etc.)

Favorite food: fruit, cheese, Hungarian food

Favorite hobby: a good coffee with my wife, people, sports

First job: IT service desk

You studied at the Bible College in Vajta. What was the time like? In what ways do you think it impacted you and prepared you for working in ministry?
The first and most important way it impacted and prepared me for working in ministry is that I learned how to read the Bible. I grew up going to church, but I didn’t really understand the Bible. When I read the Bible, things didn’t make sense to me. I just didn't understand anything because I was trying to find conclusions and answers that were not there. So God taught me a lot about how to read my Bible. Going to the Bible College was an answer to God's call. A life-long preparation started then.

You also spent some time working in a Youth Hostel in Spain? What was that like?
It was a great time! Lili and I got married eight months before we went there. We did not  know that there would be no church there in Valencia, only a missionary family and another friend of ours. Nine months later the missionary family left for Ireland and another three moths later the friend moved back to Hungary. We spent another ten months there, only the two of us.

Concerning our marriage it was kind of a intense time. Lili was my wife, my only friend, my sister and everything else. To her, I was her husband, her only friend, her brother, and so on. So we were everything to each other. She came to do boyish things with me while I went shopping, chatting, making photos with her, we played sports and went fishing together. So we did spend a lot of time together and got to know each other much better.

Concerning my values it was quite eye-opening. Because we did not find a church to go to we watched the online broadcast and had a lot less of what I call church-as-a-social-institution input. There were far less everyday things to put aside in order to focus on God. And when I started doing that, things got clearer: the important things of life came into their rightful place and what had been unimportant started falling behind. I also got to know the joy of worship, the power of prayer, the love of God.

These are just a few of the several things I experienced there.

As you’ve journeyed with God in your life, what have been some of the most valuable things you’ve learned?
The first thing is that my life is not in vain. God created me with a purpose. I do not have to worry about what I am going to do with my life to make it worth living because He knows what the aim is and He sees the whole picture. If I feel bad, if I feel so lost that I might even think I am completely off track, I can still trust that He who knows everything and knows what is happening to me.

The second and third things are closely connected to the first: that this One God who knows what is going on ,does not only knows, He also cares, and He does it out of love. And the reason my life has a purpose is this love. I kind of like thinking about God as an artist: some people paint, some sing, some dance. God creates. An artist does his thing because he likes it. God creates for the same reason, with the same feelings. An artist works a lot on the artwork, as long as is necessary to make it perfect. He likes what he does, puts it on the wall, records it, uploads it to YouTube. God also loves His creation and rejoices in it. He puts a lot of work in us to mold us into His image. He does not upload us to heavenly YouTube or put us on the walls of  New Jerusalem, but He definitely rejoices in us. Okay, what is still beyond my comprehension is that he loves me so much that he gave His one and only Son for me. This is something that has no equivalent in this world, that is over my imagination, that blows my mind and causes me to worship Him.

The fourth thing also comes from the previous ones: His care and love is manifested through a process of molding us into His image. This process does not finish as long as we are here on this Earth. What I have learned is that it is important that whatever happens to me, no matter how I feel, I would never fail to ask God: "why?". How does He form me through this situation? What does He want to teach me in this thing that I am going through? How does it benefit His kingdom? I know His promises, I know His love, I know He is not someone to lie. I might not understand what I am going through but my prayer is that He would teach me, that He would mold me. So that trials and tribulations would not just happen to me. I would not only suffer from them but as I go through them I would recognize God's faithfulness, care, and love, and that it would benefit God's kingdom by molding me more into His image; and finally that I would be able to testify to this. So I have learned how important it is to always learn.