Szabolcs Kerekes

 Where did the good new disappear from the good news?

ONLY FOR FULL TIME CAMPERS

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My personal joy in the good news: It is beautiful, when someone finds Christ. It is God's gift, if I can be present at it.
When someone meets Christ, he starts to experience what his greatest need was - maybe he could not even put it into words. Presently, the most certain way to lead someone to Christ is to receive him. This is not the traditionally understood "evangelization/conversion", but much more an expedition, of which we talk very few about recently.
Let us have a closer look at what this "receiving" is all about!What happens and how? We embark on that particular expedition!

Szabolcs Kerekes is a teacher at CRM Hungary and Seeds of Hope Foundation. He regularly visits the Girl's Reformatory in Rákospalota, where this year he organises the third camp for the girls. Two of his well known books are Mátrix conversations as Mátrix community.

András Szalai

My personal Jesus Christ - the club of doubters

FOR WEEKEND CAMPERS TOO

Description:

Thursday: Distorted conception of God, typical distortons - The way of healing.
This workshop is based on the morning lecture and we will look at the most typical distortions in the views of God. Together, we will think through their formation, their "fruits" and the ways of healing with the help of the Holy Scipture, human relationships and reality.
Friday: Distorted systems of authority in the church
In this workshop, that is based on the morning lecture, we will deal with frequent community distortions such as legalism, authoritarian leadership and the phenomenon of manipulation. (KISKORÚSÍTÁS KÉNE IDE...) We will also seach for ways of healing.
Saturday: Distorted view on providence
At this workshop, that is also based on the morning lecture, we will think together about providence, answers to prayer and also spiritual doubts.

Dr. András Szalai is an ancient Mekdsz member. He is a methodist theologian, researcher of religions, the leader of CFAR Hungary. András is a great fan of fantasy (Frodo, Harry, Percy), of forests (at least in spring and autumn), the practice of defensive sports (oh, a little bit of strangling...). People are fairly tiring for him, especially, if there is many of them. His wife Andrea, is an expert of mental hygiene (For some reason they thought up there, that is is neccesary). We are grateful parents of two faiy (irritating but sweet) girls.

Dányi-Nagy Márió

Consumptional lifestyle vs. the gospel

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You are what you eat. It is about you. Because you're worth it! I rather want a cat instead of a child. Support agreement. Church needs assessment. That's where the market goes now. Sweet phonecalls. Can you sell yourselve? Change it for a better one! ... I was changed for a better one... "Adam, where art thou?" Consumerism is ruling our lives - with its promises for salvation, stone-hard commands and its views on god and human. How does it (de)form is? How does God searching for us in the culture of consumption. In this workshop we will search for the true picture of God and man, we will share our experiences. Maybe we will even revolt.

Introduction
My name is Dányi-Nagy Márió. I am a reformed pastor in Kiskunhalas, a member of Mekdsz for 12 years, and I hopes to stay that way forever. My primary interest is youth ministry, for I love young people a lot. I am confident, that the word of God is astonishingly interesting and that God's Son astonishingly loves us. I live, to give this two further - I hope a succeed from time to time.

Marci Járay - Seben Glóri

 Mission - group excursion to West Korea

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Mission seems to be imossible in Nord Korea, it is a great hit in Soth Korea - and what here, in West Korea? God's kingdom is growing all aroung the globe, whereas we experience its decline in Europe.
What causes this crisis in Europe? How can we naturally live out and give further our faith there, where we are born and we live? Doing all this without forcing ourselves, but accepting our God given gifts and using what he created us with...
Your view on God forms the way you evangelize! (And we will of course find out, where West Korea is.)

Introduction
Marci: I never felt that I am succesful in mission. Neither that I am unsuccsessful. There was a time when I felt the mission-pressure on me "not for one soul may you be charged...", and there was a time when I did not care. Today I have a harmony in me. I speak of my faith freely. The way I live my relationship with God. Sometimes I do not speak, just live it out in a way so that others can sense it. At last I live freely, in constant mission.

Glóri: I often ask myself: what do people need? Do they need to be taught to, or witnessed to? Now I try a peculiar combination of the two. I try to love and respect people, listening to their opinion. Mekdsz for me is community and freedom, an inexhaustible treasury of God's gifts. From this workshop I expect that we will learn a lot from each other.

Tamás Schauermann

Narrative identity - Your God and your story

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If you join this workshop, you wil indeed be taken captive for three days for a timetravel into your own story of life! Tell it, and we wil try to look at your story from a wholly other perspective. After that, maybe you can also reflect on how you see God, and why? Maybe there will also be questions coming up, that will shed a new light onto what you think of God today and also, on what is indeed very true of God. :-) Then by the end, you will have a whole lot of homework., that you can take with and you can work on it further, alone or even with someone else. I hope you will come, if this is the place for you.

About the workshop leader:
I am Tamás Schauermann, married, a proud father of two boys, originally a teacher, then I wandered away and now I make a living as agraphic designer for 10 years. the MEKDSZ already infected me before I got into university. One of its advantages was the countless experiences with bible study, that stayed with me as a central issue eversince. I like movies a lot, stories, and the cottege cheese fruitcake. Lately I dipped myself into the theory of story telling, that I combine with all kinds of odd themes. One of its fruits is this workshop at the GRUND. I am able to have a coffee with anybody at any late time, then to sleep the sleep of the just five minutes after I went to rest. Do not beleive it? Find it out!

Kati Hélisz

The 9 spiritual types

ONLY FOR WEEKEND CAMPERS ON SATURDAY

Description:

Just the way there are different types personalities and love languageses, there are different spiritual types. Our spiritual type defines our attitude to faith, and the way we live our relationship with God. Reviewing the 9 spiritual types (and an attached exercise) may help us to find out and accept, what builds up and nurtures our relationship with God our prayers and our faith. It can also help us understand and respect the spiritual way of others, that is may be different from ours.

About the workshop leaer:
In Mekdsz, I am mostly referred to as: "that counselor or what..." In addition I am a wife, a "Mooommyyyy!", a housekeeper and a dog walker - and also a chauffeur, but only out of wirking hours. My relationship to MEKDZS started 25 years ago in the student group of the faculty of arts at ELTE - yes you did not misread! I am a Mekdsz employee since 2007, I have regular helping conversations in the office, and I ma the teacher of the "competent helper course". Otherwise - after I graduated in english and russian, I learned pastoral psychology in Canada, and mental hygene in Hungary again. And I like very much the silent, the beautiful, the little and the ice cream. All this is woven into my spiritual life.