Part IV: The Stories of Adea and Hamida

This past May a group of American students and their teacher decided to do their missions trip in Budapest with the refugee mission of Reformed Mission Centre (RMK). During their stay, students became acquainted with several people and families and they learned about their ways of life and the turbulent situations that forced them to flee. Part IV.

07/09/2015

címkék: reformed mission center (rmc), blog, refugee ministry, refugee

Part II: The Story of Wafa

This past May a group of American students and their teacher decided to do their missions trip in Budapest with the refugee mission of Reformed Mission Centre (RMK). During their stay, students became acquainted with several people and families and they learned about their ways of life and the turbulent situations that forced them to flee. Part II.

07/09/2015

címkék: reformed mission center (rmc), blog, refugee ministry, refugee

Hungarian Reformed Church Aid On the Scene at Keleti Railway Station

"In the current situation it is our common responsibility to alleviate people’s neediness regardless of gender, religion or nationality,"reads the Call of HRCA.

04/09/2015

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid(hrca), refugee

Hungarian Reformed Church Aid On the Scene

"In the current situation it is our common responsibility to alleviate people’s neediness regardless of gender, religion or nationality," Follow the activity of Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) among refugees and read the daily updates, published by HRCA's Communication Service.

04/09/2015

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), activity, refugee

The project of the Refugee Ministry for the 2015 Eurodiaconia Award

The Refugee Ministry submitted its “Community centre for refugees and migrants in Budapest” program for the Eurodiaconia Award. The program has began on the 30st of April 2013 and ended in June 2015.

04/09/2015

címkék: refugee ministry, eurodiaconia, refugee

RCH Statement Regarding the Refugee Situation

The Ministerial President of the Synod of RCH, Bishop István Szabó held a professional consultation with the representatives of RCH on 3 September 2015.

04/09/2015

címkék: refugee ministry, statement, refugee

Genies and Other Refugees

We talked with multi-awarded head of RCH Refugee Ministry Dóra Kanizsai-Nagy and the Mission’s project coordinator Balázs Acsai about the dangers of the misconceptions about refugees and the Christian attitude towards them.

19/08/2015

címkék: Reformed Mission Centre, interview, refugee ministry, refugee

One Hour

There are people, who want to discriminate them, who want to misuse them and there are those people, who want to help them. So did the Hungarian Youth together with more volunteers from other countries in Europe and Middle East.

15/07/2015

címkék: refugee ministry, refugee

The First 5 Things a Refugee Should Hear When Entering Your Church

For about nine years now, I’ve been minister of a church dedicated to serving people from other countries. I hope a few lessons I’ve learned can help your congregation show kindness to strangers.

19/06/2015

címkék: refugee ministry, world refugee day, 5 things, scottish mission, refugee

Celebrating World Refugee Day

For World Refugee Day 2015, the Refugee Ministry of the RCH is encouraging anyone available to join in the UNHCR Celebrations and events organised by the ministry. To mark this day we share Sophie’s story, a benefactor of the Refugee Ministry and featured in the poster stories for UNHCR.

17/06/2015

címkék: refugee ministry, scottish mission, world refugee day, refugee

New wave of mobilisation and deepening humanitarian crises in Ukraine

As part of a humanitarian crisis intervention, coordinated by the UN, the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid delivers relief supplies to Sub-Carpathia and to the refugee camps in Eastern- Ukraine.

09/02/2015

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), reformed church in sub-carpathia, ukraine

Teach Overseas Closes its Doors after 33 Years

The Teach Overseas program has been sending native English speakers to Hungary for more than 20 years. Most recently this connection has been manifested through the organization’s relationship with the Refugee Ministry of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

03/10/2014

címkék: refugee ministry, teach overseas, esi, refugee

Learning Together

Maria Kojdecka came to Budapest as a volunteer with no real plan of where she would work. All she knew was that she wanted to teach and wanted an adventure. She found herself at the community center of the Reformed Church in Hungary’s Refugee Ministry.

24/09/2014

címkék: reformed mission center (rmc), refugee ministry, refugee

Hungarian Reformed Church Aid Crisis Response Plan in Sub-Carpathia, Ukraine

The effects of the consistently escalating political situation in Ukraine since the autumn of 2013 are becoming more and more noticeable in the average household. Day by day the crisis can be felt not only in the crisis regions but also in Sub-Carpathia, within the Hungarian minority.

12/09/2014

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), ukraine, reformed church in sub-carpathia

Patience and Courage

“Hungarian people become angry quickly, but there are patient and kind ones too,” said Sally, the 10-year-old who came from Syria with her parents. She learns a lot at the Refugee Community Center in Budapest with other foreign young people.

01/08/2014

címkék: reformed mission center (rmc), refugee ministry, refugee

Opening the Doors to Integration

For those refugees and migrants settling in a new country, studying the language is the first step to integrating into society. But what do you do if there are no resources with which to learn? For Somalis coming to Hungary, this is the exact situation they encounter upon arrival.

10/07/2014

címkék: refugee ministry, reformed mission centre (rmc), refugee

God Loves the Refugee

Abraham and Sarah, the newborn Jesus and the first Christians all experienced the compulsion to flee and the difficulties of integration, but all of them also knew the care of God. The Hungarian Bible Society and the Reformed Mission Centre have prepared a traveling exhibition that urges us to see the vulnerability of refugees.

23/06/2014

címkék: reformed mission center (rmc), refugee ministry, hungarian bible society, refugee

Beautiful Diversity

"Our mission is to provide a home to 'newcomers,' to help rebuild their lives in humanity and to give Christ's love to them," said Dóra Kanizsai-Nagy, the head of the Refugee Ministry who won the Equality Prize on the Day of Social Work.

08/01/2014

címkék: refugee ministry, mission to the people, interview, reformed mission centre (rmc), refugee

The Celebration of Chance

Zoltán Balog, minister of Human Resources, presented several awards on 11 November, the Day of Social Work. The heads of the RCH's Homeless Ministry and Refugee Ministry as well as the Mohács-Kölked congregation social home and its director were among the recipients.

21/11/2013

címkék: award, refugee ministry, mission to the people, mission, homeless ministry, ceremony, reformed mission centre (rmc)

U.S. Teachers Excited to Teach in Hungarian Refugee Camps

The RCH is filled with joy to welcome a group of 10 U.S. teachers to Hungary from the Teach Overseas program. They will spend the summer teaching English at refugee camps in Debrecen, Bicske, Fót and at the Refugee Mission's new community center in Budapest.

25/06/2013

címkék: refugee ministry, teach overseas, refugee, mission to the people