Mrs. Ferenc Gondi, host of the Morning Star After-School, an institution for Roma children in Kecskemét, is a real angel in everyday life. The National Roma Ministry of RCH recognized her ministry granting her the 2021 Reformed Roma Pedagogical Assistant of the Year Award.
A Christian café in the former school building, a renewed bell tower and a renovated manse offers new spaces for the community life and working place for the inhabitants of the village of Mád.
Reformed media should communicate on the basis of scriptural foundations, in a courageous and authentic way – we heard at the conference of Reformed journalists in the Carpathian Basin.
"Keep the faith, and your faith will keep you", said Bishop Zoltán Balog, President of the Synod of RCH in his sermon at the ecumenical worship service on the eve of the State Foundation Day on August 20.
The Roma Ministry of RCH and the reformed congregation in Kecskemét held a joint event to honor the Roma victims of the Holocaust in the courtyard of the Hajnalcsillag (Morning Star) Roma Afterchool.
The National Reformed Roma Ministry organised a seminar on Reconciliation among Nations from 6 to 8 August. During the event, which focused on the mutual reconciliation of Roma and non-Roma, lectures, dramas and small group discussions paved to way for participants to journey together from recognition of pain to mutual forgiveness.
A delegation of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid travelled to Beregszász, a city near the Hungarian border, on last Tuesday. They did not arrive empty-handed. They delivered one hundred schoolbags filled with school supplies and one hundred thousand surgical masks.
The renovation of the headquarters of the Danubian Reformed Church District and the reconstruction of the seminary and dormitory on Ráday street, which burnt down in 2019, are being rebuild in the moment in Budapest.
The Soli Deo Gloria (SDG - Glory to God alone) - Alliance of Reformed Students just turned 100 years old. The Alliance’s birthday was celebrated on the anniversary, July 10th, in Balatonszárszó, where the movement really reached its full potential.
5 days, 150 program events, 3 keynote speeches. Spiritual deepening, worship, dance, and joy, all without alcohol, yet with total liberation. An encounter with the loving God and with 2500 open, loving people who became brothers and sisters by the end of the fifth day - this was the 10th Starpoint, the festival of freedom.
Thousands of participants, including many Hungarian youngsters from across the border, are expected to attend the Starpoint Reformed Youth Festival in Debrecen, which began on Tuesday. The theme of this year's festival is freedom.
Starpoint Youth Festival has started today. In an inteview, Rev. László Thoma, the "main speaker" of the event spoke about issues around the theme of the meeting; individual freedom, the misconceptions regarding “Christian freedom”, as well as opportunities for finding common ground.
In the wake of the disastrous flooding in Germany, Bishop Zoltán Balog, ministerial president of the Synod of RCH expressed the solidarity of the Hungarian reformed community with partner churches in Germany and invited children of the affected families to Hungary.
Drop your anchors here, and you’ll be in the right place! – On 8 July, the fourth season of the RCH’s Ark Camp officially started in Balatonfenyves. It is the largest ever opportunity-building program of RCH, allowing six thousand five hundred children to camp free of charge.
I would like every Hungarian Reformed congregation member to feel that they, too, are represented by the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) workers who go out to help those in need, wearing the flag-bearing lamb symbol on their clothes,’ said Károly Czibere.
In less than a month, the Starpoint Youth Festival will begin, this time without international participants due to the Pandemic. Main theme will be freedom. A report from the press conference.
One of the kindergartens in Makó got bigger classrooms, a gym with a climbing wall, group rooms and even a salt room. The Örömsziget (Isle of Joy) as the institution is now called, has been run by the Reformed congregation of Makó-Újváros since 2011.
Covid – grief recovery groups might start in congregations and hospitals across the country. In these communities, those who have lost loved ones in the pandemic can support each other. Sára Bodó, coordinator for pastoral care spoke about the details.
A seven-man relief and rescue team of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) helped with damage mitigation and debris clearance in tornado-stricken southern Moravia. The HRCA has also launched a donation campaign.
Vibrant beats, catchy choruses, deep messages - the theme song of the this year's Starpoint Youthfestival has been published. According to the theme of the meeting, the Starpoint Band, the Első lépés (First Step) Band from Debrecen, jointly composed the hit of the festival to celebrate freedom.