Daniel & Amanda Buck

Summer 2020 When Daniel suggested changing up our update letter for these two months and instead sharing a few of our favorite things I wasn’t quite sure how I felt. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what I was going to share. Is anyone else like that? Perhaps a bit more negative and not readily able to share what you are thankful for? It’s something the Holy Spirit has

Summer 2020 Pékműhely: While, of course Amanda’s baking is amazing, having a local place to pop down to is always good. This place has some of the best chocolate csigas and they make this pastry that has gorgonzola and jalapeños twisted inside of it—they call it a cravat. The pastries are made fresh every morning, and I think it has become the (semi) equivalent of going to a

Spring 2020 We planned for this update to go one way, continuing the idea of listening and the importance of sharing our testimony’s with each other. However with the virus hitting the world this will have to go another way — it feels disingenuous not to.    Ministry and a Global Pandemic: What do you do when you can’t leave your flat?   We have been practicing social distancing (for about

Winter 2020 Boldog Uj Evet! For our first update of 2020, we wanted to keep it simple and just do as the name implies: give you all a bit of an update about our lives here in Budapest and what we have been up to/have coming up in the next few weeks and months.    This was our first Christmas together as a married couple and we really enjoyed getting

Fall 2019 Does anyone else feel like they are constantly in a state of mild amnesia? Not just the kind where I can’t remember what I ate for breakfast (although that is also often true,...I think it was an egg this morning?) but the kind where I constantly forget and doubt God’s faithfulness and goodness.   Time and time again, I find myself stressed out and running ragged

Summer 2019 July has been quite a month! CROSS Training at OMS headquarters started the second week of July and since we have been living on campus, Daniel was also able to attend most of the sessions in preparation to leave for Hungary soon! We are so thankful for the training team at OMS; it was a really great time of learning and preparation, and it was so nice to

Winter 2019 Waiting and Trusting. Two of the hardest lessons one can ever learn. Both of which seem to resound all the louder in light of our walk with Christ. Life has, as it seems, given me some real and tangible experience with both of these things; seeing two of my sisters wait in pregnancy and seeing my dad trust God with a scary surgery.  These both seemed to reflect

Summer 2018 Deep into summer here in Budapest and the heat isn’t the only thing rising! The last few months have been crazy. Between the church building project, which you read about in my last letter, and English camp, which is just around the corner, it has been a busy time. At the end of May I took a few days off to visit my then girlfriend and her

Summer 2018 The main story Szentmargitfalva is a small village in Zala County, Hungary in Western Hungary. For most of you, that won’t mean anything, but it’s pretty close to the borders of Slovenia and Croatia. On our Team blog there are two great articles describing how we got connected with this project (pt 1, pt. 2). Over the last few weeks, I have found myself working in