This week might take two minutes to read, It is from my friend Joshua Shepherd on Facebook. He can be found in the group Missions Moment. Thank you Josh for keeping missions in front of people. May the whole world know. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2032821080269987/
Missions Moment – 8/20/2019 – Tuesday:
Hungary:
Hungary is a small nation in Central Europe, just a little smaller than Indiana, and has a population of 9.8 million, or slightly less than Michigan.
Hungary celebrates Saint Stephen's Day as the National Holiday. It commemorates the moving of Stephen's remains to Budapest on August 20, 1083, and Hungary is celebrating Saint Stephen's Day today. The traditional founding date for the nation of Hungary is December 25, 1000, when Stephen was baptized by the Roman Catholic religion and crowned the first King of Hungary. Hungary then was occupied by the Ottoman Empire from 1541-1699, and then joined the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austro-Hungary was on the losing side of World War I, and in 1920, Hungary lost 71% of its territory.
In World War II, Hungary declared war on Russia, and joined the Nazis. After suffering much loss in the war, in 1943 Hungary started making plans to surrender to the Allies. When Hitler received word of this, Germany invaded Hungary and occupied it until the end of the war. Many Jews were killed in Hungary during the Holocaust. After the war, Hungary was controlled as a satellite state of the Soviet Union and was cast under the dark shadow of Communism until its fall in 1989. Hungary became a Republic in 1989, and free elections were held in 1990.
Hungarian is the Official Language of Hungary, with 99.6% speaking Hungarian, 16% speak English, 11.2% German, 1.6% Russian, 1.3% Romanian, and 1.2% French. Many people in Hungary are bilingual.
Since 1000, the nation of Hungary has been mainly Roman Catholic, but during the Reformation, a large part of the nation became Lutheran or Reformed. The nation today is 37.2% Roman Catholic, 11.6% Calvinist, 2.2% Lutheran, 1.8% Greek Catholic, and 18.2% have no religion. Please pray for the Jason Mann family, as they are serving the Lord as Missionaries in Hungary. Bro. Mann and his family have passed out thousands of tracts and church invitations, with zero response from the people of Hungary. Hungarians believe that they are Christian by being Hungarian, but their definition of Christianity is foreign to the Scriptures. Pray for their eyes to be opened to their need of the Gospel, and for Bro. Mann and his family as they faithfully serve the Lord in this difficult region of the world. Pray that God would give them the grace to stay in Hungary as long as the Lord would have them too, even if there are no results seen, but pray that if it would be the Lord's will, the Mann Family would be able to see a mighty move of God working in the souls of men in the near future. There are less than 10 Bible-believing Baptist Churches in the whole nation of Hungary. Pray for the souls of the people in Hungary.
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