Faithy and Mark

Mark's Home-Going

Dearest Mark was born April 8, 1974 in Budapest, and passed away August the 9th, 2001 after being hit by a car while on a road-trip in Germany. Mark and I were on our way back to Hungary when our car broke down on the highway. Mark was trying to get to the nearest gas station to make a phone call when a car somehow came off the road and hit him with a considerable speed. He went to be with the Lord instantly.

All of us in our Home were deeply shocked and saddened because of his sudden departure. We miss him in ways that words could never tell, but we are also comforted that Mark’s love and his kind spirit will stay with us forever and will continue to help us from the other side.

The Lord’s Words in the flood of prophecies that were given afterwards, helped us to see some of the purposes He had in taking Mark to Heaven. They helped us to see all that happened with a spiritual eye. The Lord expresses in the prophecies that He needed Mark to be one of His soldiers in the Spirit to help us all to fight the battles that are ahead of us. He also said that Mark fulfilled his destiny and as much as it seemes like an “accident” and a “mistake” it was indeed the Lord’s plan to take Mark to a higher place of service. The Lord also said that He needed him to help to srengthen the Homes here in Hungary.

Mark spoke to some of us directly and he said that his departure seemed such an unexpected time for him as well, but the Lord comforted him greatly and showed him that he was actually ready in spirit to step into greater things. He also felt very honoured that he can be in Heaven and he also assured us that he will still be very close to us.

A new creature in Christ

Mark got saved in 1989 by his brother Aaron and joined the Family in 1995 summer when he was 21 years old. Later on Mark told me that during his teenage years he felt such an emptiness and felt quite lethargic, when he got saved it truely changed his outlook on life. PTL! I got to know him as a very sincere, quiet person.

I am forever thankful that all of us in our Home had the privilege to spend 6 years together with him in the Lord’s service and that we all have many unforgettable memories of him. The past 3-4 years the two of us were a team and did mostly everything together: witnessing, provisioning, pick ups, follow- up, fund-raising trips.

True Love

I think our love started more as a "love at second sight". The first few years we didn’t have the same feelings for each other, but with time and working together more and getting to know each other, we developed deep feelings for each other. Later on, Mark actually shared with me, that at the very beginning (when we weren’t together yet), the Lord showed him that I would be the one for him. Then suddenly one day it dawned on me, "Hey, I really love this guy!" And that's how it all began.

Words would fail me to express all that Mark meant to me and the love and care I got from him through the years. We’ve been living together the past three years and shared a very sweet and loving relationship. A few months before his home-going we were planning to get married.

One of the things that will stay with me always is that Mark had such a pure and clean spirit. I told him that he is like a knight from the olden days with all the true values. Of course, he made mistakes and he blew it sometimes, but I felt that deep down in his heart he had such purity and most of his mistakes were just blunders of the mind.

A Word Warrior

He was very sincere and had a deep desire to be more efficent in the Lord’s service. Lately, in the light of the Activated vision our witnesing ministry was really on his heart and he was often praying and seeking the Lord about it. He was such a strength to me and he set a very good sample in so many ways. Especially in taking time with the Lord reading the Word and his desire to put it into effect. He was concerned if I skipped my Word-time or if I didn’t seek the Lord for my problems.

A faithful witness

Mark had a special annointing to speak with the Germans quite naturally. He always taught me new words and phrases and a bit of grammar. People liked him a lot and they always complimented him for learning their language. Even if someone was sceptical he took the time to explain our work more thoroughly and to answer their questions. He always tried to leave people with a better impression.

On our last road-trip we spent a very sweet time together which I’ll be always thankful for and for the choices we made towards renewing our commitments to the Lord individually and commiting ourselves to each other as well and planning to get married. We’d been together for a few years already and we felt that we needed to get more serious in our walk with the Lord and in our relationship and were both looking forward to making these commitments.

Then, on our way back to Hungary, when our car broke down and just before he started to walk to the gas station, he turned to me and said a very sweet prayer for me and for my safety and he wanted to make sure that I’ll be all right while he was gone. These were some of his last words to me. I think I will never forget them and they’ll always stay with me.

A life that touched so many others Since then, some of our contacts, as well as teachers and kids were writing to us from the orphanages we visit regularly, and they all have such fond memories of Mark.

One of the CTP projects our home has been doing for the past five years is organizing summer camps for orphaned and handicapped children. Last Summer, the Lord led us to try hosting an English language camp for orphans and to invite older children, mostly teenagers from all over the country. This camp was one of the most memorable for all of us since we felt that these teenagers really have a spiritual vacuum.

After we came back from Germany a girl from our last camp sent a letter to Mark not knowing yet that he had passed away. She wrote that she really missed him and she had a list of questions to him about the Endtime events she has read in the Treasures book we gave her. Then another girl wrote the following after she heard the news of Mark’s passing:

“You all mean a lot to me and I want to thank you for the best two weeks of my life I spent with you. (Mark and I spent a lot of time with her answering her questions about evolution) It’s a shame I didn’t tell you earlier because I wanted Mark to know as well, that I got convicted that the whole evolution theory is a lie. I would like to ask you for a photo of him and to visit his grave.

"I always admired your strong faith and I hope this faith will remain strong through of all this. Take courage and believe that one day you will meet him and then you will never be apart again"

Also in our last camp one of the teen boys got really attached to Mark. He always wanted to be around him, playing sports, helping him with different things during the camp. Every time Mark had to get up to go to the bakery or for breakfast, it didn’t matter how early it was, this boy always wanted to be his partner.

All through the years in our camps the children or even the teenagers treated Mark as a father figure and he meant a lot to these kids. PTL!

Some of our contacts attended as well & some of them called, or wrote letters to us. I got a very sweet and encouraging letter from one of them, a Christian woman whom I visited with Mark a few times a year. She wrote that she really liked Mark and she was there at the funeral. In her letter she says that she also lost her husband, but even with all the pain and suffering she came to the point that she could thank God for the time that her husband was with her and to just be thankful for him. This part touched me very much and I hope and pray that I will be able to do the same. At the end of the letter she wrote that she really likes our work and prayed for God’s blessing on it.