Calvin Synod Herald, 1997 (97. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1997-11-01 / 6. szám
CALVIN SYNOD HERALD- 7 -AMERIKAI MAGYAR REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA IN MEMÓRIÁM REV. EMERY S. JUHASZ 1923-1997 % The Rev. Emery S. Juhasz, who immigrated to the United States in 1948 to escape Communist rule in his native Hungary, came to Cleveland in the summer of 1956 as pastor of the West Side Hungarian Evangelical Lutheran Church. A few months later, he welcomed more than 75 refugees of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution to the city, helping them find jobs and housing. In 1956, Rev. Juhasz began conducting Hungarian-language church services on the radio in Cleveland and serving as secretary of the Hungarian Conference of the United Lutheran Church in America/Lutheran in America. He continued those duties after retiring from his pastorate in 1991 and moving to what had been his vacation home in Hide-A-Way Hills, a gated community outside of Lancaster, Ohio. Rev. Juhasz served churches in Portland, Oregan, Gifford, Ohio and Buffalo, New York, before coming to Cleveland. From 1963 to 1991, Rev. Juhasz was editor of the Eros Var, a monthly Hungarian-Lutheran publication. He belonged to the Magyar Club, while living in Cleveland. Services were held at the West Side Hungarian Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3245 West 98th Street, Cleveland, on November 22, 1997. Rev. Juhasz is survived by his wife Edna (nee Papp), 3 children and 2 grandchildren. The widow is the daughter of our late Rev. Charles Papp. Dr. Rttila Kalman's Visit The lay-president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church of Hungary, on his official trip to the U.S.A., I made an infor- 5 mal visit to his * brother, Rev. Szabolcs Kalman, at Cleveland’s West Side church, on November 7th. A very informative friendship gathering was held in his honor. A productive report was given by the highly important leader in Hungary’s church as well as governmental life of the Nation. Gun, ...To Mr. Steve Hunyadi, owner of Precise Tool and Die Company in Willoughby, Ohio and Elder of Cleveland’s First Church, for the generous gift of $500 for the global service of our Publication. ...A very special thank you is indeed in order once again to Lili Volosin for her greatly appreciated annual $400 “gift of color” to ur paper. We also thank her immensely for her most generous $5,000 donation to the Kazinczy-Volosin Fund establishment in the past in care of our Synod’s Treasurer. The American Hungarian Foundation held its thirty-fifth annual George Washington Awards Dinner in honor of the 1997 Laureate, Bruce S. Gelb, New York City Commissioner, on December 4,1997 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Promise Keepers Continued from page 6 mitment, sacrifice and virtue.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10,5/97, p. C4) Although both of us couldn’t make the trip to Washington this October, Warren did, and he describes what was a genuinely moving experience: “What was it like: ‘Standing in the Gap’ in Washington, D.C. 10/4/97”? It was, I believe, a glimpse of what heaven will be like: A million men, all focused on Jesus Christ; praising and worshipping Him, and humbling themselves before Him. It was unlike anything I have ever experienced before. Bill McCartney challenges the critics of Promise Keepers to “ask the wives and children of men who attend our conferences if they resent or are troubled by the husbands’ determination to follow Christ, our supreme model for manhood.” PK believes in working through the local churches in enabling men to strengthen their relationships with each other, building integrity and accountability to God and each other, as the authors of the Bible so well understood: “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”. (Prov. 27:17) The Promise Keepers ministry is anticipating events in all 50 state capitals for the year 2000, but the real story of this great movement is in changed lives as this growth in the Lord is shared for the long term back home!
