Reformátusok Lapja, 1972 (72. évfolyam, 1-7. szám)
1972-06-01 / 6-7. szám
2 REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA THE RIGHT REVEREND BISHOP ÁRPÁD L. BERETZ 7520 Woodmar Avenue Hammond, Ind. 46323 Tel.: 219-844-8632 TO: All Pastors and Consistories Dear Friends: The following is a communication from The Pension Boards: Wage-Price Freeze “While all of us were anxious to stop inflation, we felt it unfair to freeze salaries of ministers, some of which were at a disgracefully low level. I am happy to tell you that the Wage-Price Board has now exempted from wage controls firms having annual sales or revenues of less than fifty million dollars and sixty or fewer employees. In the opinion of our legal counsel, this frees from restriction all but a handful of our parish ministers and most state conference organizations. I hope that our churches which failed to give adequate raises to their ministers and lay employees last fall because of the freeze will now feel free to give fair and equitable increases. IRS Form 4848 This year many churches and church-related institutions received from the Internal Revenue Service Form 4848 requesting a report on payments with respect to the annuities of ministerial and lay THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA: Editor-in-Chief .......... Right Reverend Arpad L. Beretz, Bishop Editor ............................................................................ Rev. Francis Vitéz Board Members: Rev. Aaron Elek, Rev. Joseph Marsalko, Rev. Joseph Kec-kemethy, Rev. Zoltán Király, Rev. Dr. László Berzeviczy, Rt. Rev. Dr. Stephen Szabó, Rev. Desmond Parragh, Rev. Alexander Babos, Rt. Rev. Dr. Stephen M. Bessemer, Rt. Rev. Dr. John Butosi, Rev. Leslie Egry, Rev. Dr. Alexander Havadtoy. employees. Our attorneys advise that Internal Revenue Service regulations exempt churches and integrally related church institutions from filing this form.” Note: I especially ask our Consistories to give serious consideration to the pastor’s salary in view of the continuing inflationary spiral. It’s easier to make a small adjustment every year than to make a big one every three or four years. Sincerely yours, Arpad L. Beretz, Bishop ORDINATION Mrs. Coralyn Thompson Medyesy, pastor of the Grace Reformed of Gary, Indiana is the first woman to be ordained to the Christian Ministry in the 400 year old history of the Hungarian Reformation according to Bishop Arpad L. Beretz of Hammond, Indiana, Chief Executive of the Calvin Synod Conference of the United Church of Christ, a non-geo- graphical Synod tracing its roots and heritage to the Reformed Church in Hungary. Mrs. Medyesy, the wife of the Reverend Laslo Medyesy, pastor of the First Reformed Church of Whiting, Indiana, is of American Welsh-English stock. Nevertheless, she conducts bi-lingual services in the English and Hungarian languages. She is also the first non-Hungarian to be called as pastor to a church in the Calvin Synod. The Rev. Mrs. Medyesy has a BA degree in Sociology and Recreation from the University of Washington and has completed a combined program of Theology and Social Work for her Master of Divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago and a Master of Social Work from the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus. She has traveled extensively. In 1967 she married the Rev. Laslo Medyesy. They have a daughter Cara Noel Ildikó. Her ordination took place on May 28, 1972 in Gary, Indiana, Bishop Arpad L. Beretz officiating. REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA Hungarian Reformed Religious Paper Official Organ of the Calvin Synod — United Church of Christ June-July 1972 Volume 72, No. 6-7 Published monthly except June-July and August-September when bl-monthly. Editor-in-Chief: The Right Reverend Arpad L. Beretz, Bishop Editor: REV. FRANCIS VITÉZ 493 Amboy Ave.. Perth Amboy, N.J. 08861 Phone: (201) 826-3513 Subscription—Előfizetés: évi $3.50 yearly. Printed by Standard Press, New Brunswick, N. J. Second class postage paid at New Brunswick, N. J. 08901 Send Form 3579 to Reformátusok Lapja, Circulation Department, New Parker Photo Offset Printing Co., 163 Albany Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
