Saturday, April 6
Hello Everyone

We are here! Everyone is safe and sound. Our trip was rather uneventful, but it sure took a lot of time to get here. This is the first opportunity we've had to drop all of you a note.

We arrived in Budapest yesterday afternoon at 3 PM (7 AM US time). After our hosts picked us up at the airport, we drove 2 hours to a town called Tata where we were greeted by our host Andras and his wife and had a very nice dinner.

After dinner we drove 5 hours to a town called Csurgo, where we stayed last night. We are being lodged in a boys school -- a dorm -- run by the church. We will stay here tonight as well and will move to another town tomorrow morning. We will perform tonight and tomorrow AM during Sunday service.

Our hosts have been very kind. There are significant language issues to manage, but so far we have been able to muck our way through.

We expect to spend a great deal of time traveling from city to city. Access to phones (that are easy to use) and email is difficult and will likely be infrequent, so we will do our best to send messages home as often as we can.

Our thoughts are with you

With love from Hungary

Jim, Greg, Michael, Dan, John, Doug, Chaz, and Rick