Community and Spiritual Empowerment in the Ministry to the Young

For thirty-five years, the Association of Reformed Youth (Refisz) has been inviting young people to encounter the renewing power of God through faith, community and service.

01/07/2025

címkék: youth ministry, Association of Reformed Youth, year of the youth ministry

Bringing Our Shared Dream Before God

Why does our church need a strategy? Is it worthwhile to begin this long-term work towards the end of the six years mandate of a church leadership? We asked pastors Anett Tóth and Emese Varga, members of the church strategy working group.

25/06/2025

címkék: church revision, church strategy

Bridging East and West, North and South

Martina Wasserloos-Strunk has been serving as president of the European Area of the World Communion of Reformed Churches for eight years. The Area Council in Budapest was her last official meeting which she moderated. An interview about her ministry.

19/06/2025

címkék: martina wasserloos-strunk, wcrc europe, world communion of reformed churches (wcrc), interview

Godmothers for families in Transcarpathia

The initiative launched by the Women's Association of RCH benefiting families in great distress in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, is now in its eighth year. According to the vice-president of the association, Márta Juhász, not only financial help but also spiritual support is indispensable.

05/05/2025

címkék: reformed church in transcarpathia, ukraine, women's association

"Grace is Also My Share"

The task of the team of the National Reformed Roma Ministry is to support the ministry of evangelisation among the Roma people, either directly or in cooperation with Reformed congregations and institutions, and to work toward reconciliation between Roma and non-Roma. In total, the service reaches around 7,000 people. Interview with István Kocsis, the deputy head of the Diaconia’s department for social inclusion.

10/03/2025

címkék: roma ministry, interview, diaconia, this is also reformed

Service Feeds on Thanksgiving

Communities, in particular, can serve God in the year 2025. This year could be a year of war, but it could also be a year of peace. Every action that proclaims the glory of God is a service: it must be spent on what is necessary, what preserves, what protects," says Sándor Zán Fábián, Bishop of the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia (RCT). The RCT has proclaimed this year the Year of Service.

06/02/2025

címkék: year of service, reformed church in transcarpathia

Metanoia and Renewal

"The novelty of our approach is the clear dedication and outspoken conviction that the Gospel is relevant also in the life of youngsters". 2025 will be the year of youth ministry. Rev. Áron Ablonczy, head of the Youth Office and his colleague, Luca Oláh explained the main goals, program highlights and prioritized topics during the year.

31/12/2024

címkék: Oláh Luca, interview, Ablonczy Áron, youth ministry

Moderation is a Gift to Creation

If we celebrate Christ, it is worth looking behind the way we do it: what we really do to glorify Him and what we do to contradict His teaching. Is a Christmas pleasing to God when we overspend, when we overextend ourselves, when we place a burden on the created world that it cannot bear?

23/12/2024

címkék: eco cognregation, christmas, eco-congregation movement

Repentance and Credibility

József Steinbach, Bishop of the Transdanubian Church District, was unanimously elected by the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary in April 2024 as the Ministerial President of the Synod. He was interviewed by the Gustav-Adolf-Werk (GAW) Society, partner of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

14/08/2024

címkék: GAW, presiding bishop, Bishop Jozsef Steinbach, interview

Disenchanting the Earthly Ends in Themselves

“Karl Barth's lasting merit is that he firmly warned against any attempt to turn theology into a system of worldviews,” says theologian Sándor Fazakas, head of the Department of Social Ethics and Church Sociology at the Debrecen Reformed Theological University. This year, he was awarded the prestigious Karl Barth Prize, founded in 1986, by the German Union of Protestant Churches (UEK).

31/07/2024

címkék: karl bath prize

On Revised Route

He loves sports, gardening, art, but most of all, life. From a young age, he trained to be a minister, and after thirty-five years as a minister and sixteen years as a bishop, he was planning to retire. But the Lord had a new chapter in store for him: Bishop József Steinbach of the Transdanubian Reformed Church District was elected as ministerial president by the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary at its spring session.

02/06/2024

címkék: interview, Bishop Jozsef Steinbach

Living Church in Living Congregations: the Reformed Prayer Chain Begins

"A congregation is not alive because it organizes programmes, but because what happens there points to Christ,” says Levente Zoltán Hajdú, head of the Mission Service of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

16/05/2024

címkék: year of the living word, prayer chain

Constant Conditionality in Transcarpathia

“Reserves are dwindling both spiritually and physically; women left at home are facing more and more tasks, families are torn apart, and peace is still a long way off,” - this is how the Reformed people of Transcarpathia sum up their current situation.

04/03/2024

címkék: war, reformed church in transcarpathia, ukraine

Reflecting the Light of God - A Year of Charity

“The most important thing is that all people know the Good News and we pass on the love we have received” emphasized Márton Juhász, Executive Director of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA). In addition to talking about the HRCA’s services in the past year, he encouraged that anyone can help in their own environment. This interview was conducted before Christmas.

28/12/2023

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca)

God’s Living Word Shall Be Demonstrated, Move and Guide

The Reformed Church in Hungary has declared 2024 the Year of the Living Word, which is closely linked to the Year of the Pastoral Profession, proclaimed in 2023. Interview with the Head of the Mission Service of RCH, Rev. Levente Zoltán Hajdú.

04/01/2024

címkék: mission service, interview, year of the living word

Census: We Cannot Deny Our Own Responsibility

According to census data published last week, 943,982 people in Hungary declared themselves Reformed last year, which is 200,000 fewer than ten years ago. On this occasion, we spoke to Károly Fekete, Bishop of the Transtibiscan Church District about the reality of our congregations, the role of institutions, and authenticity.

20/10/2023

címkék: interview, census, Transtibiscan Reformed Church District

The Teacher Plays a Prophetic Role in Communities Where Children Grow Up

A meeting of inclusive Reformed schools was held at the Scottish Mission in Budapest, with the primary aim of developing the Network of Inclusive Reformed Schools, sharing good practices and training in methodology. In two training blocks, participants reflected together on the possibilities of interviewing and factors influencing student success. An interview with Kriszta Naszádi, project coordinator of the Inclusive Schools Programme.

29/11/2023

címkék: roma ministry, inclusion, scottish mission, 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 nation lives in church and school"

We talked to Sándor Fábián Zán, Bishop of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Transcarpathia (KRE), candidate of the 2022 elections. Among other things, he talked about the past 16 years of his term as Bishop, his current life situation, the present and the future of the Reformed Church.

07/12/2022

címkék: reformed church in transcarpathia, ukraine, bishop zan fabian

From assimilation to inclusion

We come across the concepts of assimilation and integration on a daily basis, but few people understand the meaning of the word inclusion. The term, which is primarily used in education, means ‘I will get to know your characteristics, and you will get to know mine, and this is how we form a community,’ explains Krisztina Naszádi, the coordinator of the Inclusive Education Program of the Swiss Church Aid (HEKS) and the Reformed Church in Hungary. We asked the specialist about the background and practice of inclusive education.

18/03/2023

címkék: integration, roma ministry, HEKS