Tamas Schauermann
Tamas Schauermann teaches hermeneutics and is a member of the steering committees of the Hungarian Evangelical Forum and Langham Preaching Hungary.
I am part of the Hungarian Forum Steering Committee and have led the Bible Interpretation Network since the beginning. I am part of the leadership team of Langham Hungary, leading a local preaching club. I am preaching in my church regularly (approximately once a month). I teach coaching and mentoring at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Budapest, and I also teach Hermeneutics at an independent Bible school. I preach at conferences and church camps and work with leaders in different denominations.
I grew up in a Christian family, attending Sunday school, youth group, and high school student ministry. I gave my life to Christ at a young age. During high school, an interdenominational student group was formed and later turned into the student mission at the local university; I was involved in this work from the time I was 17 all through my university years. As I became more committed to evangelism at my university, I had to sort out a lot of areas in my life and just let God take control. Through my involvement in student ministry, I learned a lot and experienced what it means to find God’s best intention with my life.
Growing up in a Christian home, I could look to my parents as examples of how to live a godly life. However, it was a question that I would continually struggle with throughout my Christian walk. Before joining IFES's year team in London, I was faced with whether I believed due to a friendly conversation with a Jehovah's Witness. While I didn't completely throw out my faith, I searched hard to find good reasons for what I believed. Ironically, I was a missionary all during this time. However, God slowly re-convinced me of His power and presence. He used different conferences, books, and leaders in the British and Hungarian student movements.
After last year's Forum, I was challenged and inspired in my quest for personal holiness and purity of the heart. The Forum has been a melting pot where everything that happened the previous year slowly started to get shaped. I have several significant decisions tied to specific Forums. The most recent being a relationship mended after 13 years. This has been a major breakthrough and opened up entirely new perspectives.
I look forward to returning to be spiritually refreshed and reflect on my journey.
I was a supervisory committee member for the Hungarian International Fellowship of Evangelical Studies (IFES).
My whole ministry has been a great response to the trust, invested interest, time, and resources I received from others.