Bethlen Almanac 1998 (Ligonier)

Tóparti Egyházmegye - Lakeside Classis

Ordination/Installation of Bishop Rev. Louis Medgyesi, October 11, 1998 in Fairport Harbor, Ohio.

Front row: Rev. Ágoston Dobos, Rev. John Thomas, Rev. Dr. Francis Vitéz, Rev. Louis Medgyesi, Rev. Bela Poznan, Rev. Zoltán Szucs, Rev. Albert Kovács and Rev. Szabolcs Kalman.

Back Row: Rev. István Geczy, Rev. Frank Endrei, Rev. Csilla Geczy, Rev. Dr. Jake Wagner, Fr. Bryan Eyeman (Byzantine Rite), Rev. Zoltán Sutto, Rev. Gabor Nitsch, and Rev. William Nyerges. Also participating: Rev. Shirley Mälzer and Rev. Charlotte Brown.

The Lunch Program is strictly our own project serving the needs of grammar school children since the school system does not provide the service. Our church derives a monthly income from the effort.

Numerically, the church is stagnant. A few people may come and join the church fellowship but not enough to offset the loss of membership due to death or moving away. Even though there is a sizable younger group who bring their children to Sunday School, the church membership is aging. There is not only a generational but a cultural change taking place; spoken Hungarian is not as commonplace as it once was and the younger generation identifies with its roots through the ethnic foods and the annual Grape Harvest Dance. Sentimentality for the past and intermarriages between members are two tangible proofs for cohesion in the church which tends to polarize and fractionalize the fellowship. As a result, there is

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