In 2024, the Reformed Church in Hungary faced unprecedented trials and challenges. This year, in the hope of resuming its ministry on the path of re-building and growth, RCH will launch a public communication campaign to demonstrate the spiritual ministry and social service Reformed church members have been offering in the country and beyond. Press release.
Under the motto “This is also Reformed” RCH will draw attention to its ministry in 2025. Through the year-long information campaign, the general public will be able to learn about the work of RCH in building bridges in society, in healing or in uplifting and integrating those on the peripheries.
To give just a few examples, the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid supports hundreds of thousands of people in need across the region called Carpathian Basin, and since the escalation of the full scale of the war in Ukraine helped more than 400,000 refugees with donations, accommodation, Hungarian language instruction and pastoral care. In the Bethesda Children's Hospital of RCH, 190,000 young people are being treated with Christian spirituality every year; various social ministries have assisted tens of thousands of people to recover from addictions; Reformed kindergartens, schools and universities are teaching and educating the future generation, tens of thousands of them, and in the Ark camps for disadvantaged children, children from deep deprivation are encountering the joys of life and the love of God. In addition, the Church’s main focus is on its mission to be a stronghold and support for hundreds of thousands of people who long for God but are still on the search for the path to him, for answers to the central questions of their lives. RCH’s campaign stresses that “our congregations and communities are open to them”.
“2025 is dedicated to the year of the youth ministry in RCH. Only through authentic, lively and committed service can we be worthy of becoming an example for future generations,” said József Steinbach, Ministerial President of the Synod. He added that “we pray and act so that God may turn our trials to our advantage and renew us.”
The whole year-long information campaign - with photos, articles and videos - will be mainly presented to the public on online platforms.
Budapest, 6 January 2025.
“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation” (Isaiah 52,7)