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Kálmán and Julianna have been serving as full-time staff with CRU since 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.

Julianna grew up in North-Eastern Hungary, in a traditional Christian home. Jesus found her at the age of sixteen in a car on the way home from a Christian camp, when she realized through a conversation with a friend, that God does not have grandchildren, only children. The first time she met CRU was on the campus of the University of Law in Budapest. After serving with them as a volunteer for two years she knew God calls her into full-time ministry to students. She finished university as a lawyer in January of 2008.

We got married on the 1st of April, 2006. Zoé was born on the 10th of February, 2013 and brought much joy and laughter to their family with her personality. Patrik was born on the 27th of September, 2015 and is a very smart boy.

In 2017, we began working with local families starting #HelloCsalád (HelloFamily), and working closely with FamilyLife, a ministry of CRU in ourneighborhood. First as a personal ministry, however, we have dozens of families around us and God is using us to impact their lives for Christ through pre-evangelistic groups for women and men (Soaring, Significant Women, Quest), guided date-nights (An Evening to Remember), Art of Marriage© events as well as Art of Marriage Connect© groups, and various trainings (Konnekt Evangelism Training, Theology of Work training about faith and work). Kalman is also on the Board of Trustees of the 4th Musketeer© men’s movement in Hungary, helping to run and follow-up the XCC© (Extreme Character Challenge©) weekends that is a physical, emotional and spiritual challenge for men. 4M annually puts on 5 XCC, 2 Arise and 2 Father-Son weekends, recently launched LIFE-Network, a network for businessmen and will organize its first Father-Daughter weekends.

Kalman and Julianna also give leadership to the Specialized Movement Strategies (SMS) team in Hungary as well as serve together on the National Leadership Team of CRU, Hungary.

Starting in 2023, since we are seeing many people opening to the Gospel in Budafok-Tétény (a part of our district) as a next step, alongside a team of others and with the help of their pastor, Rob Futo of Sarokkő (Cornerstone) Presbyterian Church are beginning to plant a local Church.

Marriages are struggling, couples need the real hope only the Gospel provides.

Our goal and desire is to win, build and send the whole family!

If you are interested in our ministry stories, please email us your name and email address and we would be happy to give you access to our Epistle news site: https://thekovacsfamily.epistle.org/

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Our Contact:

kalman.kovacs@cru.org

julcsi.kovacs@cru.org

Hungarian Cell: +36-30-251-2031 (FaceTime, iMessage)

Home Address in Hungary: 1223 Budapest, Terv u. 7/B/1. Hungary

CRU Supervisor: Laszlo Baczynski, National Team Leader, CRU, Hungary - laszlo.baczynski@cru.org

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American pages:

https://www.familylife.com - part of our ministry, global FamilyLife (English)

https://www.cru.org - our global mission agency (English)

Hungarian pages:

https://www.hellocsalad.hu - our local/personal family ministry

https://www.timoteus.hu - CRU, Hungary - our Hungarian mission agency

Website: http://www.timoteus.hu