The Good Samaritan’s Pride

God does not have ill and healthy, Turkish, Hungarian and Roma children, merely children. – We spoke with László Katkó the head of the Good Samaritan Reformed Children’s Home in Velyka Dobron, Ukraine after being presented the Tamás Dizseri award.

26/03/2014

címkék: interview, lászló katkó, good samaritan children's home

Supporting Roma Mission

To understand more about the collaboration between HEKS and the RCH, we spoke with Project Coordinator Petra Dienes about the details of the "Country Program," which focuses on support through the “strengthening of congregations to foster and cooperate with Roma children and young persons.”

10/03/2014

címkék: petra dienes, agreement, roma ministry, interview, HEKS

Facing the Past and the Present

The individual and the community are determined by their own past. Whether they like and admit it or not, the past is always with them, in them, that is why it is essential to know it, emphasized historian László Tőkéczki, Lay President of the Danubian Reformed Church District.

04/03/2014

címkék: church revision, tőkéczki, interview

1% support, 99% spirit

The RCH's 1% campaign would like to show conversion and the inner and outer change that comes with it. We have looked for real life stories with real flesh and blood people behind them, whose lives have completely turned around by receiving the gospel and through the service of the Reformed Church.

13/02/2014

címkék: campaign, 1%, interview

Over the Border: Interest in Unity

Among many other things, we spoke with István Csűry, bishop of the Királyhágómellék Reformed Church District, and Béla Kató, bishop of the Transylvanian Reformed Church District, about why Hungarians need Mohács and how ecumenism comes to fruition in Transylvania.

06/02/2014

címkék: istván csűry, transylvanian reformed church district, béla kató, királyhágómellék reformed church district, interview, transylvania, unity

Diversity as a Task

Regarding the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, reformatus.hu interviewed the Reformed Bishop József Steinbach, President of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary.

23/01/2014

címkék: week of prayer, ecumenical, interview, józsef steinbach

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

Opening Doors and Strengthening Reformed Ties

Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay is the president of the World Communion of Reformed Churches and also the General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church in South Africa. He recently made a trip to Hungary where he received an honorary doctorate from the Debrecen Reformed Theological University.

28/11/2013

címkék: debrecen reformed theological university, world communion of reformed churches (wcrc), interview, jerry pillay, doctorate

Discussing the Hungarian Perspective on World Mission

Rev. László Gonda has been a member of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism since 2006 and together with his fellow commissioners, helped develop mission statement of the WCC entitled, Together Towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes.

08/11/2013

címkék: world council of churches (wcc), laszlo gonda, mission, general assembly, interview, wcc, statement

"I have no grief"

In remembrance of the 1956 revolution we spoke with Dániel Szabó, recent recipient of the anniversary medallion of the Debrecen Reformed College on its 475th anniversary. We asked the former lay president of the Cistibiscan church district about his memories from the ’50s.

25/10/2013

címkék: szabó dániel, revolution, interview, history, 1956

Evolution of the Scottish Mission in Budapest

The RCH and the Church of Scotland have a longstanding relationship and unique history. The following is an interview with Rev. Aaron Stevens of St. Columba's Church of Scotland discussing the evolution of the Scottish Mission in Budapest and the ties that bind both churches together.

15/08/2013

címkék: church of scotland, scottish mission, st columba, jane haining

Interview with the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea

Recently a delegation from the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea visited the Reformed Church in Hungary. The following interview is with Rev. Dr. Min Heui Cheon, the Executive Secretary of the Ecumenical Relations Department for the PROK.

10/05/2013

címkék: partner church, ecumenical, interview, prok

Redefining Mission

An interview with Dr. Attie van Niekerk of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. Dr. Niekerk is a founding member and managing director of the NOVA institute. He recently visited Budapest to give a series of lectures on poverty and the redefinition of mission for today's Church.

28/02/2013

címkék: Attie van Niekerk, mission, poverty, Dutch Reformed Church, interview, South Africa

Update on Serbian Election

The Reformed Christian Church in Serbia has released a statement with updates on the state of its bishop election that has been appealed and debated since early January. You can read an interview with bishop nominee Béla Halász following the announcement.

25/02/2013

címkék: reformed christian church in serbia, Serbia, bishop election

Ministry among the Roma - Interview with Attila Landauer, Gypsy Studies Specialist

In Hungary, Roma communities have been an inseparable part of society for centuries and in the life of churches, service among Roma has always primarily meant spreading the Gospel. Interview with Attila Landauer, national coordinator of Roma ministry of the RCH.

10/12/2012

címkék: interview, roma ministry

“A New Reformation Would Make a Difference”

“The things that could renew the Church are not new at all.”, said András Harmathy, president of the Church Revision Committee, as he shared some of his thoughts about the mission of the committee in the context of the approaching General Synod session.

19/11/2012

címkék: church revision, andrás harmathy, interview

Interview with the convener of the Church Revision Committee

We are in a process of revision. For the coordination of the process the Church Revision Committee was installed by the Synod in 2012, commissioned both to develop an ecclesiological basis for the future church life and for the expected reconfiguration.

24/10/2012

címkék: church revision, andrás harmathy, interview

An Up-To-Date Way To Target Young People

About the Youth Forum And Its Promising Continuation organised by Szabolcs Szontágh Reformed minister and the Synod Office of RCH.

04/09/2012

címkék: youth, youth forum

Gypsies in Europe

In the following interview Szilveszter Póczik, historian-criminologist and the senior scientific representative of the Hungarian National Institute of Crimonology (OKRI), attempts to throw light on the differences and similarities between Gypsies living in Eastern and Western Europe.

04/07/2012

címkék: roma ministry

Roma are by far not a Homogeneous Group

This article contains some of the most thought provoking excerpts from a two-part interview with Pál Nagy, historian and scientific consultant at Szent István University in Gödöllő, Hungary.

19/06/2012

címkék: interview, roma ministry