Starpoint 2015- Interview with The Organizers

The Starpoint reformed youth festival has been organized for more than a decade now, once in every two years, and it attracts about 3500 young people.

02/07/2015

címkék: starpoint, youth, festival

The Building Stones of Trust

The countdown has begun: the seventh Starpoint Reformed Youth Festival will start in only six weeks. A press conference on the preparations and the planned events of the Festival was held by the organizers, performers and lecturers on the 10th of June.

01/07/2015

címkék: starpoint, youth, festival

Interim General Secretary Appointed

The Presidium of RCH appointed András László Gér as interim General Secretary as of 1st July. The appointment expires on 31st December.

01/07/2015

címkék: election, Synod, synod2015

Cooperation with HEKS Continues in Roma Ministry

Claude Ruey, President of the Board of Trustees of HEKS paid a short visit in Hungary on June 6 and met colleagues of the Roma Ministry and Pál Huszár, Lay President of the Synod of RCH.

01/07/2015

címkék: roma ministry

The Faces of Love

More than seventeen thousand volunteers carried out tasks for more than one hundred thousand work-hours on the last weekend of May at the Bridge of Love, organized by the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid.

26/06/2015

címkék: volunteering, hungarian reformed church aid, bridge of love

(Much) More Than a Festival

For each ‘Starpoint’ it is very decisive who leads the “main lectures”. He or she somehow represents the given Festival, gives a face to it and stands in person for the message.

24/06/2015

címkék: starpoint, youth, festival

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

A memorial stone at the gate of the Reformed Zugló

On 31 May 2015, in the framework of a festive outdoor worship, a memorial stone was unveiled on the site of a former wooden church of the Budapest Baross Square Reformed congregation, which worships in the Synod Building of RCH.

08/06/2015

Communiqué regarding the Székely Mikó Highschool

The Transylvanian Reformed Church District turned to the Strasbourg European Court of Human Rights in the case of the Reformed Székely Mikó High School’s renationalization in Sfantu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy), Romania.

08/06/2015

címkék: romania, székely miko high school, miko, church/state relation, székely mikó high school

Hungarian Charities Ship Aid worth HUF 100 Million to Western Ukraine

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid was among those Charities which coordinated the shipping to Sub-Carpathia, Ukraine.

07/06/2015

címkék: ukraine

Our Contribution to Kirchentag

Guest of honour this year is Sándor Zán-Fábián Bishop of the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia/Ukraine.

02/06/2015

címkék: kirchentag

Ecumenical Journey for Mission Continues

The Reformed Church in Hungary (RCH), the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) and the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB) came together in Budapest on 19th-21st of May for the second station on a three years journey.

01/06/2015

címkék: visit, world communion of reformed churches (wcrc), evangelical church of czech bretheren (eccb), protestant church in the netherlands (pcn), partnership

General Secretaries of National Councils of Churches in Europe meet in Berlin

Focus on Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace. From 26 to 29 of May the General Secretaries of the National Councils of Churches in Europe will meet in Berlin.

29/05/2015

címkék: ecumenical council of churches in hungary (ecch)

Celebrating 6 Years of Unity

End of May the Hungarian Reformed Church (HRC) will be celebrating the sixth anniversary of the Constituting Synod that took place in 2009.

26/05/2015

címkék: unity day, hungarian reformed church (hrc), bridge of love

Receive the Gift of the Spirit

The Presidium of the General Convent sent a message to the congregations of the Hungarian Reformed Church which celebrate Pentecost within and without the Carpathian Basin.

25/05/2015

címkék: general convent, hungarian reformed church (hrc), pentecost

What Does This Jesus Want From Me?

“Last year it was quite hard to round up nine people, today thirty-six of us have gathered here” - shared his joy a pastor at the National Roma Mission Meeting and Prayer Day.

21/05/2015

címkék: roma ministry

CTS Students Visited Hungary

Aim of the annual exposure trips is “to deepen one’s experience and understanding of the Church and its ministry in a significantly different socio-cultural context”.

18/05/2015

címkék: Columbia Theological Seminary (CTS), scolarship

Balog Addresses Roma Commemoration

Tragedies like the Roma Holocaust will only be unrepeatable if there is a culture of respect and if the mainstream and Roma “learn together, work together, live together and think together,” the minister of human resources said.

18/05/2015

címkék: roma ministry, holocaust

RCH Took Part in the Global Forum on Future Christianity

Rector of the Debrecen Reformed Theological University, Dr. Gusztáv Bölcskei was in South Korea for the Global Forum for the Future World Christianity (GFFWC). The Forum took place from the 5th to 8th May, 2015 on Jeju Island.

13/05/2015

címkék: solidarity, Korea