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Andrew and Ingrid Solymosi

The  Global ConneXion project is one of the tools that the Global Technology Offices is using to address the need to provide staff and volunteers with access to the latest strategies and most current resources, and experts who can help them adapt the strategies locally.

One of the ways God has provided for Global ConneXion is through Andrew and Ingrid Solymosi.

Andrew is a university professor of Computer Science in Germany. For years, he dreamed of the opportunity to move his family to the United States for a short term. For a family of four school-age children, a medical doctor, and university professor, this move from Germany would be no easy feat. It would entail house swapping, acquiring visas, enrolling the children in American public school, and for their ten-year-old son, learning English! By human accounts, this had all the characteristics of a pipe dream.

Miraculously, they received their visas astonishingly fast. The next big hurdles were to find a house and for Andrew to get permission for time off from the university. Although their dream could have been shattered as they experienced several false starts, their faith in God’s provision remained strong.

Despite a myriad of closed doors, Andrew deeply felt God’s call to work in the U.S. with Campus Crusade for Christ. After much prayer, he realized he could work at the World Headquarters and satisfy his research requirements for sabbatical (which the university was willing to give). Furthermore, housing was readily available in Orlando. So, in January 2003, the Solymosi’s bid adieu to Germany and said hello to America!

Campus Crusade is certainly not foreign to the Solymosi’s. In fact, while serving as campus director at Erlangen University¸ Andrew met fellow staff member and future bride, Ingrid. Those 8 years on staff provided the foundation he now needs to be a successful professor. “I would be unqualified for my position,” Andrew remarks, “without the ability to relate to students that I learned as a campus director.”

Combining his love for Computer Science with his passion for sharing Christ with people, Andrew’s job in the Global Technology Office this year was the perfect fit. Here, he used his technical expertise to help design Global ConneXion. Soon, this site will connect Christian workers worldwide with valuable evangelistic and personal resources.

Andrew’s practical experience in the Campus Ministry makes him enthusiastic for the Global ConneXion. Recognizing how much more effective he would have been on campus had this tool been available, Andrew is excited to contribute to a project he believes will “definitely accelerate the Great Commission.”

As their time in the US closed in September, the Solymosis returned to Germany with a clearer vision of God’s work in their lives. Despite the obstacles, language barriers and tears that come with moving thousands of miles away, they see how God specifically called them to Orlando for a season.

For Andrew, that meant collaborating on a tool to help fulfill the Great Commission. For Ingrid, it meant learning new medical strategies while working alongside Developmental Pediatricians. For the children, it meant adjusting to school in a new culture with a new language. Yet, for each involved, it meant trusting in a faithful God.

A Hungarian professor from Germany helping create Global ConneXion so that a laborers in local movements can share effective evangelism resources with a co-laborers in another part of the world. Pipe dreams can become reality when empowered by God’s call.

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