Calvin Synod Herald, 1984 (84. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1984-04-01 / 2. szám
CALVIN SYNOD HERALD — 4 — REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA Easter greeting to our churches Easter comes again as a reminder, experience and living hope. We are reminded every Sunday, but especially on Easter Sunday that God raised His Son not only from physical death, but also from the grave of misunderstanding, evil blows and deadly apathy. While this grave digging is still going on in the world, we urge you, dear brothers and sisters, to remember that “Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures” {I. Cor. 15.3—4). It is the facts of facts that Jesus of Nazareth is both Lord and Christ. Dezső Ábrahám, But our witness will be credible only if Easter is not only a memory, but also a dynamic experience today: if we demonstrate that the power which raised Him from the grave, raised us also to a new life; no longer do we live according to the “flesh”, but the Spirit of the Living Lord makes us children of the resurrection. Especially as we, the fragmented members of the same Hungarian Reformed Church look at the new challenges of the Hungarian Reformed Church Uniting, may we rise above doubts, old feuds and new apathy, sectarian spirit or provincial mentality. “Let us cast of the works of darkness and put on the armor of light” (Rom. 13:12). Of course, “while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord” (2. Cor. 5:6), but we know that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence (2. Cor. 4:14). May this lively expectation fill you with good courage, joy even in tribulations, and a firm conviction that in the Lord your labor is not in vain (I. Cor. 15:58). In this hope we send our prayerful greetings to our congregations in this Easter season of 1984. John Biitösi, Bishop of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America Bishop of the Calvin Synod, Conference of United Church of Christ Installation in Columbus, Ohio Pastors participating in the installation service on April 1st. From (left to right) Rev. Stephan L. Nagy (Cleveland, OH), Rev. Paul Kantor (Columbus, OH), Fr. John Cody (Columbus, OH), (second row) Rev. Nicholas Novak (Pittsburgh, PA), Dr. Zoltán Szucs (Lorain, OH), Rev. Aaron Elek (Cleveland, OH), Rev. Louis Medgyesi (Fairport Harbor, OH), (third row) Dr. Stephen Szabó (Cleveland, OH). Rev. Imre Bertalan (Washington, D.C.), Bishop Dezső Abraham (Allen Park, MI), Rev. Imre A. Bertalan (Toledo, OH), Rev. Bela Pohoczky (Dayton, OH). I Rev. Imre Kovács died | Rev. Imre Kovács of Springdale,PA died March 7th after a long illness at age 74. Rev. Kovács was born in Pancsova, Torontal megye, Hungary. His elementary education was completed in Hungary, his secondary education in Yugoslavia, and he began his seminary studies in Rumania. His undergraduate education was completed at Lancaster Theological Seminary in 1931 with a Bachelor of Divinity degree. Later for one year he continued his studies at Yale Divinity School and then for another year at Princeton Westminster Choir School. His musical training was completed at The Juilliard School of NYC. In 1936 he returned to Yugoslavia to work as a travelling youth minister. Two years later, while on a YMCA lecture tour in the USA he was invited to serve a Hungarian church at Trenton, NJ. In 1940 he began to serve in Phoenixville, PA, where in the same year he married Emma Fecsko, a music teacher from Trenton. Rev. Kovács' service in New York City's 69th Street Hungarian Church ended in 1965 when he was called to his last post in Springdale, PA.
