Calvin Synod Herald, 2003 (104. évfolyam, 3-12. szám)
2003-05-01 / 5-6. szám
2 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD HERALD CALVIN SYNOD <P%*f 8 ■mi i v* CM* AMERIKAI MAOYAR REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA. Volume 104 May - June 2003 No. 5-6 Official Organ of the Calvin Synod United Church of Christ - Founded in 1900 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD (ISSN 0161-6900) is published bi-monthly for $10.00/year for individual subscriptions; $8.00/year for groups; $6.00/year for 50 or more copies Please make checks payable to the Calvin Synod Herald Editor-in-Chief: Rt. Rev. Louis Medgyesi, Bishop Co-Editor: Rev. Dr. Edwin P. Elliott 9400 Fairview Avenue • Manassas, VA 20110 Tel.: 703-335-2844 Co-Editor: Rev. György Cseh, Dean 344 East 69th Street • New York, NY 10021 Tel.: 212-734-5252 • Fax: 212-734-4803 Newsletters prepared by: Cathy Paksi 440-729-1765 Newletters printed by: Gazette Printers 724-349-3434 Periodicals postage paid at Butler, PA CALVIN SYNOD HERALD 264 Old Plank Rd., Butler, PA 16002-3810 Manuscripts and photographs are not preserved or returned. Send all correspondence to the Editor. The views and opinions of the writers are their own and do not necessarily represent the position of the magazine or Calvin Synod. CALVIN SYNOD HEADQUARTERS: Rt. Rev. Louis Medgyesi, Bishop 607 Plum Street, Fairport Harbor, OH 44077 Telephone: 440-357-5203 Fax:440-352-9256 OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS VACANCIES: Beaver Falls, PA Columbus, OH Lorain, OH Walton Hills, OH Gary, IN Kalamazoo, MI Manville, NJ Los Angeles, CA Interested ministers must contact the bishop’s office first, and an informative dossier for the church will be sent to qualified clergy. Live each day so that you will neither be afraid of tomorrow nor cishamed of yesterday! Second Century Donors $100 gifts donated to the CALVIN SYNOD HERALD REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA: Miss Lenke E Volosin Rt. Rev. Dr. Francis Vitéz Ms. Janet Vegh United Church of Christ, Bridgeport, CT Hungarian Reformed Church, Lorain, OH Hungarian Reformed Church, Woodbridge, NJ West Side Hungarian Reformed Church, Cleveland, OH Calvin United Church of Christ, Fairfield, CT Hungarian Reformed Church, Columbus, OH West Side Hungarian Reformed Church, Buffalo, NY M. Sgt. Andy Boros (Ret.) First Hungarian Reformed Church, Walton Hills, OH Lakeside Classis, OH Calvin United Church of Christ, Fairfield, CT Hungarian Reformed Church, Fairport Harbor, OH THANK YOU!!! Please, join us!!! WOODBRIDGE IOOtH ANNIVERSARY EVENT NEW HUNGARIAN FLAG DEDICATED A new Hungarian flag was dedicated on Hungarian Independence Day in the Woodbridge church. The third of the monthly events celebrating the centennial of the Hungarian Reformed Church began in the church for this brief service. Then, reassembling in the church hall, the congregation heard the Rt. Rev. Dr. Francis Vitéz reconstruct the ancient ethnic roots of the Hungarian people prior to settlement in their new homeland in 896, their early years of nation building, and glimpses into their cultural and religious life, concluding with recent efforts in seeking independence from Austrian and Russian rule. With the congregation assembled in the front of the church, the Service was opened by the Rev. Abert W. Kovács with the American National Anthem, as an expression of the congregation’s gratitude for one hundred years of freedom of worship, which was followed by the prayer in unison of the nation’s first President, George Washington: ‘Almighty God: We make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, and entertain a brotherly affection and love for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy and to
