With the dog days of summer upon us, Jackson Free Methodist is starting to look forward to the months ahead. On October 10th, there will be a small team departing for Budapest, Hungary to visit with missionaries Katie and Larry Winckle, as well as visiting with local missions’ leadership.
One of the Winckle’s original objectives in Hungary was to begin sustainable church planting by creating areas of worship, creating a thriving spiritual community, and to begin to transition this over to local spiritual leaders. One of the fruits of their labor throughout their time in Hungary has been their involvement in the Set Free Movement and their connection with Zsuzsi McNamara.
The Set Free Movement is an upstream mission focusing on preventing human trafficking through tireless efforts of educating vulnerable women and children. Zsuzsi is responsible for leading the Set Free Movement in Hungary and currently works at children’s homes, schools, prisons, and a variety of other settings to educate vulnerable populations and to create a strong community that is resilient to human trafficking.
This will be JFM’s first time sending a team to Hungary to be a part of these missions and the objective of the trip will be to continue to build and deepen relationships with local leadership, learn from the teams on the ground, and to better understand how JFM can sustainably edify these teams spiritually, emotionally, physically, and financially.
Some of the highlights of the tentative trip will be partaking in the Walk for Freedom event to bring more awareness to human trafficking, meeting with the Budapest team, meeting with Set Free Team in Pécs, and visiting a children’s home in Gyór!
What a blessing to do this, we'll be praying for the team!
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