HRCA Refugee Ministry Summer Snapshots

The Refugee Ministry is a division of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA), assisting refugees with integration through various programs and services. Different divisions of the Refugee Ministry summarized their recent activities and accomplishments in these brief snapshots.

29/08/2023

címkék: refugee ministry, hrca

Celebrating Unity and Culture at the 2023 City Park Picnic

In June, clients at the Refugee Ministry organized a community picnic at the city park. Angela Canadey, the Swiss Church Aid (HEKS) Coordinator and Project Assistant for the Refugee Ministry’s Base Integration Program, briefly summarized the lively event.

08/08/2023

címkék: refugee ministry, HEKS

There Is Also Healing in the Lord for Pains

Three thousand prisoners of Roma origin were executed at the Auschwitz Gypsy camp on the 2 of August 1944. On this day, the Roma of Europe commemorate the Holocaust, the porajmos as they call it, or in the Lovari dialect, the pharrajimos, the destruction.

02/08/2023

címkék: roma holocaust, pharrajimos

The Common Synod of the Hungarian Reformed Church

The Common Synod of the Hungarian Reformed Church met on the 13-14th July, 2023. During the two-day meeting, members of the Synod voted on the constitutional amendment and adopted the Hungarian Reformed National Strategy for the Carpathian Basin and the closing statement of the Synod.

14/07/2023

címkék: common synod, hungarian reformed church

Twenty Years of the Starpoint Festival At Its Peak

Nearly five thousand visitors attended the Starpoint Festival, the Reformed Church's largest biennial youth mission project hosted for the last 20 years.

31/07/2023

címkék: starpoint, youth ministry, starpoint reformed youth festival

Continuing in Solidarity With Ukraine

The Reformed Church in Hungary, in cooperation with the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia (Ukraine), recently hosted the “Ukraine Future Conference” from the 14th-17th of July. To reaffirm their continuing solidarity, partner churches and organizations worldwide gathered in Budapest to listen to and discuss interpretations of just peace and reconciliation.

21/07/2023

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), ukraine, reformed church in transcarpathia

Ukraine Future Conference

Partner churches and organizations from across the globe gathered in Budapest between the 14-15th July to attend the Ukraine Future Conference, initiated by the Reformed Church in Hungary in cooperation with the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia (Ukraine)

16/07/2023

címkék: ukraine

Responding to Human Need by Loving Service

Food bank hosts 100 families in the sanctuary of St. Columba’s Church of Scotland in Budapest every week

15/06/2023

címkék: st columba, foodbank

Summer camp children support Ukraine with solar-powered lamps

When two congregations in Pennsylvania came together for their annual summer camp, they wanted to find a way to support the people of Ukraine. With the help of international partners, they purchased and sent 92 Luci Lights to congregations in Transcarpathia.

15/05/2023

címkék: reformed church in transcarpathia, ukraine, united church of christ (ucc)

Partners' Consultation of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon

RCH Delegation attends Partners' Consultation hosted by National Evangelical Syond of Syria and Lebanon

06/06/2023

címkék: partnership, Middle East, national evangelical synod of syria and lebanon (nessl)

A record number of participants in the network meeting of the Reformed Inclusive Primary Schools

Since 2017, HEKS (the Swiss Church Aid) has supported efforts to make elementary schools maintained by the Hungarian Reformed Church more inclusive. Today, more than a dozen institutions carry out development aimed at inclusion, and their spring network meeting was hosted by the headquarters of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA). More than fifty employees from eleven schools participated in the all-day workshop on May 22.

23/05/2023

címkék: integration, roma ministry, HEKS

The Delegation of the Ecumenical Council Visits Palestine

The Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary (ECCH) delegation visited the Holy Land on May 15-18 at the invitation of the Higher Presidential Committee of Churches Affairs in Palestine.

20/05/2023

címkék: ECCH, ecumenical relations, Middle East

László Harangozó is the New Bishop of the Reformed Christian Church in Serbia

The Synod of the Serbian Reformed Christian Church held its meeting in Bácsfeketehegy (Feketic) on 31 May, where the results of the national election held in the spring were confirmed and the newly elected officials took their oaths in a festive ceremony.

02/06/2023

címkék: Serbia

Saying the Same Thing in a Different Language

"True friendship is that we are brothers to each other in Jesus Christ," said Bishop Zoltán Balog, Ministerial President of the Synod of RCH. This was his message at the service of the Korean church in Budapest, where he preached, April 2nd. The congregation has been member of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

26/05/2023

címkék: bishop zoltan balog, jeong chae hwa, presbyterian church of korea (pck)

European Reformed Representatives on Ukraine and “True Worship”

On May 4-5, 2023, the Area Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Europe (WCRC Europe) met in Thessaloniki, Greece, to discuss issues affecting member churches. Among those issues, Representatives of the European Reformed churches addressed responses to the humanitarian and political situation caused by the war in Ukraine.

24/05/2023

címkék: wcrc europe, ukraine, reformed church in transcarpathia, true worship

Reformed Music Festival

Nationally and internationally renowned performers take turns on Pentecost weekend in and around Kálvin Square in Budapest: more than 60 events await audiences at six venues over three days, and all of them are free of charge. The Reformed Music Festival is set to become one of the biggest free music events in the capital.

23/05/2023

címkék: reformed music festival

The Reformed Music Festival is Renewed with a Star-studded Cavalcade

Nationally and internationally renowned performers take turns on Pentecost weekend in and around Kálvin Square in Budapest: more than 60 events await audiences at six venues over three days, and all of them are free of charge. The Reformed Music Festival is set to become one of the biggest free music events in the capital.

23/05/2023

címkék: unity day, music festival, reformed music festival, reformed public and cultural foundation

Bishop Szabolcs János Bogdán of Királyhágómellék has been inaugurated

Szabolcs János Bogdán has officially assumed the position of bishop in the Királyágómellék Reformed Church District. Religious and lay leaders gathered in the church of Kraszna for the inauguration of the bishop on December 9.

09/12/2022

címkék: inauguration, general assembly, királyhágómellék reformed church district

Shared service for togetherness

“The common goal of our Christianity is for Roma and non-Roma Hungarians to live in peace and love with each other,” said Bishop Zoltán Balog on the ‘We Belong Together — Roma Integration Day’. During the event, the participants reviewed the results of the social inclusion program and shared their aspirations in round table discussions.

15/04/2023

címkék: roma ministry, diaconia, danubian church district, bishop zoltan balog

Possibility of renewing the relationship with God

Between March 19 and March 22, almost fifty people came together at Berekfürdő to share knowledge and participate in accredited training on contextual theology within the Roma Ministry of the Diaconia of Reformed Church in Hungary.

01/04/2023

címkék: roma ministry, diaconia