Bethlen Almanac 2001 (Ligonier)

Kanadai Magyar Református Gyülekezetek

commandment both locally and overseas. Our Lord has enriched us with opportunities to participate in mission works in Africa and South America, as well as in the Old country, particularly in Transylvania and in the Sub-Carpathean territory of the Ukraine. In 1976 Rev. Szabó accepted a call to become the minister of the Livingstone Presbyterian Church also, and since that time every week there is a full scale Hungarian and English ministry, that is Sunday worship services, mid-week Bible study and prayer meetings, counseling, and pastoral care in both languages. Youth work, confirmation classes are mostly lead in English by the same pastor. The church building is located in a very poor and transient district of Montreal, so our work also includes a regular monthly outreach dinner, where we try to satisfy first the empty stomach and warm up the cold feet of those we invite in from the street, then we share “the food for the soul”, and try to share the love of Christ. We call our work a “railway station ministry”, because immigrants are coming and going, but our goal is that all those who spend even a short time with us may hear about the Creator, who became our Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus, about the Savior, about the responsibility of the coming judgement and the reality of eternal life. The Hungarian community is rapidly shrinking in Montreal due to aging and severe nationalistic French politics, but we strive to reach as many of our compatriots as possible. Our church and the pastor was one of the founders of the Montreal Foyer Hongrois, a Hungarian Senior Citizens Home, and from the beginning we provided spiritual care to the aging residents of the Magyar Otthon.

For all this may the Lord be glorified.

Rev. Peter Szabó

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