Calvin Synod Herald, 1980 (80. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1980-05-01 / 5-6. szám
6 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD may not find Him! We are challenged to be people who, individually and together, reflect Christ. The best way that we can meet this challenge is by being a believing and caring community! We need to be people who stand out as examples of concern for one another and for the people in the world around us. For this reason, public worship, adult education, and compassionate service must be stressed. What will the 80’s bring? I purposefully avoided gazing into a crystal ball to see what the next ten years would look like. Such predictions generally fail! Let us try to concentrate on the crucial issue which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What is really going on cannot be understood otherwise. May God anoint our eyes to see a new heaven and a new earth without the “sea” of separation between God and man. These are difficult times and they may be getting worse. But the future belongs to Him and in Him to us! Dr. John Butosi (Continued from page 4) Most people live the life of an elevator operator. They are always on the move and getting nowhere. Others are on the merry-go-round or on the track of horses in the threshing season on a farm. They are going in circles, working, eating, sleeping and back again, and getting also nowhere. This is the pay-off for living for themselves. God wants to give us the high purposes of His kingdom, a cause that is greater than ourselves. He wants to make our lives a high romance, a glorious adventure by giving us His big visions, big dreams, big commissions that can stir our imagination and blood alike, that can make us powerfully alive and put us on fire for Him. He wants to liberate us from our mediocre existence by giving us the Holy Spirit of power in order to be witnesses of His kingdom of love which He manifested in Jesus Christ our Lord. Dr. Eva M. Fabian MOTHERS There is no more beautiful sight in all God’s creation than the one of a child being held with adoring love in the caress of its mother. In its pure simplicity, it far outshines all the intricate products of mankind’s fertile imagination. No words of scripture ring out any more true of the privilege of woman to be a mother than the wisdom of the biblical Proverbs, “Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” What compliment could be more deserved, or offered more genuinely? Amid the brash harshness of an intemperate world, of unisex and screaming libbers, at this time of year a new song arises, more welcome than the robin’s’ trill. It is the spring song of the greatest majority in the nation, the sons and daughters, who for the joy of life and love sing out, “I love you, Mom.” Although it’s said so softly one by one, the sheer quantity of the voices builds to a crescendo of multitudes on Mother’s Day. Being a mother is an holy act of obedient service to God. For each new life is an act of the Divine will, and a woman becomes his gracious servant as he works his most magnificent miracle each time a child is conceived and cherished, both before and after birth. However, before we rush along, another word would be appropriate. We are privileged to have been blessed by many women in our lives, some of them mothers and others not. But these are those beautiful women whose works follow them, because they nurture the young in the church schools and choirs, scouting and sports, academic knowledge and nursing care. By their patient concern, first the child and then the adult receive woman’s most cherished blessing — her caring love. I cannot imagine a happy world without it. The Daily News, Bangor, Penna, Friday, May 12, 1978, P. 15 Rev. Albert Kovács A FAMILY A Family is People who: grow together in faith work together in hope worship together in love bear one another’s sorrow forgive one another’s faults share one another’s joy need one another love one another support one another look for God in one another see God in everyone live as individuals are separate yet one are joined by God’s presence living in each other. Copied The Consistory of the First Hungarian Reformed Church of Pittsburgh wishes to thank the many friends who have come from near and far to share in our celebration marking the 90th anniversary of our congregation. FILM DEPICTS AREA HUNGARIANS The premiere of “Searching for Wordin Avenue,” an hour-long documentarydrama about the Hungarian community in Bridgeport and Fairfield by filmmaker Steve John Ross of Bridgeport, took place April 27 at Sacred Heart University. Ross, an assistant professor of media studies at SHU, began working on the film over three years ago. Donald Coonley, chairman of the SHU media studies department, was film co-producer and Larry McConkey, of Philadelphia was cinematographer. The film showing and reception was sponsored by the university’s Center for Ethnic Studies. Funding for the film was through the U.S. Office of Education, The Connecticut Humanities Council, the Sacred Heart University Research and Creativity Council and Connecticut Public Television — WEDW. The film will be shown May 4 on Channel 49, at a time to be announced. Ross said he plans to submit the film in film festival competition throughout the country. He said he hopes that the film is evenually aired on the New York metropolitan area public television station, Channel 13. Bridgeport Press, April, 1980
