Practical exams in different practical areas
The practical exam from the PTF en Evangelization course has been a tradition for years now.
Back to the beginning:
In previous years, as part of the Evangelization course, we served with the students in the MPE Hajlék Missionary Church, among the homeless, and among the addiction patients in the MPE Hajnalcsillag Szenvedélybeteg rehabilitation Otthona in Dunaharaszt, in addition, we organized an evangelization session with the day students at the Tiffany Bowling club in Péceli, and with the mailers at the KÖKI Terminal.
And last year, we announced a joint evangelization event called Meetings within the PTF building, which rural students were able to join online from their own homes with their invited guests.
Student feedback:
Meetings 2022 PTF
"I was very happy to be able to participate in the prayer group, where we could pray online week by week together for the occasion and our own problems, support each other and build our relationships. It was truly a blessing.”
"We met God and each other. We spent a blessed time in community. I believe that the guests present were also addressed and the seed was sown. God is doing his work, we will continue…”
"Three of my colleagues participated in the evangelization... it was a pleasure for me to experience that we were able to influence people, we were able to help them to the MEETING! And that's the point, that's why we did it! My next plan is to invite my colleagues who participated in the evangelization to our home group, which is currently being reorganized and is becoming a cell group, and I am still open to conversations and prayers with them."
"We were happy to prepare for the glorification, it brought us together!"
Here is a taste of the feedback from the guests present:
"I had a very intimate encounter with the Almighty during the prayer walk."
"Csaba's sermon was full of fire, he presented the gospel clearly and comprehensibly. Finally, I converted too."
"I was very touched by the way you shared your own life crisis and thus made the message of the Word even more personal for us, which touched me deeply."
"The pantomime performances were very inspiring for me and the hospitality, the conversations, the heart-warming reception was a great experience, thank you."
"I feel that everything is about me, my tears flowed, I arrived, I found home."
Focusing on a practical theological approach during the course, the aim is to enable the students to get involved in evangelization in a practical way. What they have learned and read during the semester should have the opportunity to apply it in practice, to try it out and gain their own experience. In each grade, we work together with the students to develop the possibilities for the Evangelism practical exam, and this was the case this year as well.
Experiences of 2023 years
This year, three fields and three organized opportunities provided the candidates with the opportunity to gain practical experience, two of which were offered by the students and the third was jointly organized, similarly to last year, under the title of Meetings.
In the framework of the practical exam, one of the options was to a For student services we were able to get involved in serving university students Through Gábor Tonk and his wife Petra.
The other option The homeless mission of Youth With A Mission (YWAM).to get involved in an open structure, through Dávid Hollós (full-time student). In addition to Dávid, on Tuesday afternoons, the students could join the service to the homeless people living on the street.
The third option was selected and voted on by the student group. The decision was made to organize this year's meeting, the unusual evangelization exam, in the church hall of the Christ's Love Church. To which the students call, and where they serve, whom they follow.
Student feedback 2023
A Together with student services, we served 10 students On May 15 among university students. The students came excitedly for the one-hour preparation and after the two-hour practice, after the personal conversations with the university students, they came back very encouraged, happy and with good experiences. Some of their experiences:
"It was useful and educational, it built my faith and confirmed the need for many more people to hear the good news. I caught fire, thank you.”
"We had a blessed afternoon, very good conversations and I'm glad that I was able to experience this with you!"
"I am very happy that I could participate in yesterday's event, it was constructive for me. I was greatly enriched by him, encouraged. "
"It was a great experience for me to experience the openness of the students and the good conversations prepared in advance."
"I was very nervous, but I took courage. Another time, I will gladly join a similar service."
"It made me think about how I'm doing. With myself, with God.”
Accounts of the experience of joining the homeless mission of Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
"I have regularly participated in street and various church evangelizations. It was the first time to the homeless. It was a very new and deep emotional experience! Perhaps the Holy Spirit will make me suitable to actively serve the homeless in the future."
"We met the service team at the Selah cafe, where we started by making sandwiches, dividing into teams and praying... For me, it was a great testimony that many of the people who ended up on the streets were there through no fault of their own and many were educated people whose lives were ruined. People like anyone started out just like us. It was nice to talk and see that they welcome our prayer and our company…. It was a great experience, after this I feel that it will be easier for me to go to the homeless and talk to them, even spontaneously."
"For a long time, I thought that only financial help to the homeless could be considered real help - or at least help that alleviates the difficulty of existing in the physical world. However, the joint prayer and the reaction of those helped made me realize that we all need spiritual help, strengthening of faith and good human and divine words at least as much as a bite of bread."
Meeting - 2023 - in Pesterzsébet in the building of Christ's Love Church
"We came from different churches, different denominations, during the march we had many experiences together, we could share in each other's pain as well as in each other's successes. Prayers flowed for each other and all this with such a naturalness that I could really marvel at now at the end of the 2nd year. Such a delicate fabric of love was woven between us unnoticed, which is very rare even at the level of regular church membership. It is so heartwarming to experience that it can really come true that we can be recognized in this: THAT WE LOVE EACH OTHER. To represent this, to meet, to be present, to love in this hopeless world."
"The joy of serving together strengthened in me the feeling of home that PTF means to me."
"It was a miracle for me today - coming from 15 different communities - to experience unity, love, community."
"The word was alive and effective, the praise was captivating and the testimonies given were encouraging and edifying."
"I take the joy of personal conversations and shared meals with me."
Unfortunately, the lack of a personal invitation was evident, there were few external interested parties, and the occasion turned out to be quite intimate. The reception of the guests was incomplete, as a result of which one of the stray homeless managed to steal the bag left unattended by a PTF student. We still have room to improve.
The experience of many years is that the students are very enthusiastically involved in these jointly organized events. The entire team of ministers is made up of the students of the course, from glorification, to preachers, from witnesses to intercessors, to aftercare. From the organization of the hospitality to the administration, the students enthusiastically serve together, each according to his own gift, which he is open and free to do. You can get involved in what your heart is ready for, what you have a gift for. As in previous years, two of the course's students were converted last year, and to our great joy, this continued this year as well. It seems that this is slowly becoming a tradition. It is also an experience going back years that, during the preparation, everyone feels addressed and inspired to renew or get involved in the service of evangelization, if they have not done so before. There are students among the students who, looking back on previous years, realize almost every year during the semester that they themselves need conversion, commitment and complete dedication.
It has also been a recurring signal from the students over the years that serving together has a very good community-forming power. In fact, the students who completed the course the previous year look forward to joining the evangelization events organized by PTF students and inviting guests.
