Missionaries

Endi & Kati Kovacs

Church Resource Ministries Hungary

Children

Lilien
Robin

Email Address

ekovacs@crmnet.org

Mission Agency

Church Resource Ministries

Field of Service

Hungary

Type of Ministry

Training and mentoring church leaders and church planting

Praises

Endi and Kati are thankful to have recently sold their apartment and bought a new larger home just outside of Budapest.

Pray for Their Ministry

Please pray for the transition of leadership that is taking place in CRM Hungary. The goal is to see a leadership culturally more indigenous without losing the vision of healthier churches through healthier leaders. Pray for God’s guidance and wisdom in the midst of strategic changes in the coming months.

Pray for Them

Please pray for their church, as they are a broken body of believers. Their pastor resigned in August 2001, and the rest of the old leadership is also gone. A decision was recently made about an interim leadership team and Endi was asked to take part in it. Please pray that God would give him and everyone

involved wisdom to see what He calls them to do. A new responsibility in the church would be time consuming and Endi’s primary commitment continues to be with Church Resource Ministries.

Ministry Background

In 1983 Endi Kovacs became a Christian, and became actively involved in the illegal Hungarian Christian student movement. In 1989, when communism fell, Endi helped to officially establish the student organization as the Hungarian InterVarsity Fellowship and became one if its two directors.

In 1991 Endi and his wife Kati became part of a new church plant in Budapest which Church Resource Ministries was helping to start, and in 1992 he was invited to work with CRM. In 2000 Endi completed a Master of Theology degree at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada.

Ministry Update

Today, almost ten years after the unraveling of the Iron Curtain, there is new hope on the horizon that a strong national church may reemerge in Hungary. It is an awakening many years in the making. Unfortunately, the initial surge of converts and new churches seen immediately after the fall did not grow to maturity. The seeds scattered fell mostly onto shallow soil. As a result, hundreds of churches today sit empty without pastoral leadership, and thousands of towns

and villages exist without an evangelical community of believers. In his work with Church Resource Ministries-Hungary, Endi focuses on the health of local churches by training church leaders to be equipped and prepared for their job both practically and spiritually. His primary role within the mission is to provide training that promotes the spiritual and character formation of leaders among God’s people in Hungary. He is also serving as Director of Staff Care and Deployment.