http://www.behars.net/blog/ Thoughts on life in Budapest, ministry with the Alliance for Saturation Church Planting and reflections on God's Word . . . en-us 2006-05-21T18:58:00+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000110.html Please check out the new and improved Lee's Lines... Lee 2006-05-21T18:58:00+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000098.html Wow! Two months since my last blog entry . . . how embarrassing. Well, the five people who read my musings regularly aren’t too put off . . . hopefully. In the last two months here’s a snap shot of... Ministry News Lee 2006-02-27T17:08:10+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000095.html Until this week we'd had a mild winter in Budapest. Now, of course just in time for our intense packing and preparations for departure, winter arrives! I know what you're thinking . . . that's got to be a pretty... Lee 2005-12-31T22:25:55+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000093.html How many electronic Christmas greetings have you received so far this season . . . five, ten, a dozen or more? This is the best one I've received. It's not fancy or high tech, just the lyrics to In Christ... Lee 2005-12-22T12:54:21+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000092.html I think our 'anti-materialism' training of Mckenna is going rather well. Don't you . . . ?... Lee 2005-12-19T15:22:31+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000087.html My last ministry effort of our 3 years in Budapest followed a well worn path. Steve Farina (a missionary with United World Mission) and I spent a day with Gavi Moldovan in Oradea, Romania. Oradea is about four hours from... Ministry News Lee 2005-12-07T21:57:27+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000085.html During the last month my ministry activities have consisted mostly of meetings. As important as those meetings were (and I really appreciate those of you who prayed for our final Alliance board meeting), they're pretty boring events to blog about.... Ministry News Lee 2005-10-20T10:46:47+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000081.html In my July blog entry I mentioned how summer is a relatively slow time in Central Europe. Not the case in September . . . the last three weeks have been a whirlwind as we have planned and executed our... Ministry News Lee 2005-09-20T18:24:36+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000077.html As August approaches in Central Europe temperatures rise and activity levels go down. So far this summer, afternoon highs have probably been below normal. But not this week. Sweltering 90s have people scurrying for shade or air conditioning (where it... Ministry News Lee 2005-07-27T15:18:49+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000070.html Last week I had the privilege of interacting with a church planter in western Czech Republic. His name is Zdenek. With his wife Pavla and another Czech couple, he is plowing some pretty tough ground in their city of Stribro... Lee 2005-06-17T15:10:40+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000063.html For the last 8 months or more I have been reading through the four Gospels in personal worship time. During those months I think I have been through Matthew and Mark 3 times and Luke and John 2 times each.... Devotional thoughts Lee 2005-04-20T08:30:28+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000059.html The past six weeks did not bring the travel to Romania and Ukraine that I had anticipated. In order to use ministry resources most wisely, my teammates and I decided others would have more value to offer/gain on these visits... Lee 2005-04-18T15:45:43+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000055.html As our team has attempted to come alongside "church planting movements" this year, we've had the privilege of meeting Valeriy Alimov. Valeriy leads the church planting work of the Union of Missionary Churches of Ukraine. One way that we believe... Lee 2005-03-18T10:55:08+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000050.html Though Brooke and I have lived in Budapest for two-and-a-half years, I’ve always felt that my most significant contribution to the enterprise of world missions would be in North America. During our extended visit to the U.S. this winter I... Ministry News Lee 2005-02-01T01:49:45+01:00 http://www.behars.net/blog/archives/000039.html Friday evening I returned from a 3-day visit to Poznan, Poland. The purpose of my trip was to help explain the concepts of saturation church planting to missionaries from 6 organizations (Avant, Evangelical Free, C&MA, IMB, Pioneers, CB International). My... Ministry News Lee 2004-11-07T22:36:12+01:00