Calvin Synod Herald, 2008 (109. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
2008-03-01 / 3-4. szám
CALVIN SYNOD HÉRÁI D 9 Bethlen Communities Update Bethlen Communities offers worship services every Sunday for the residents, their families, and staff, in the Linden Room of the Bethlen Home, at 10:00 am in English, and 11:00 am in Hungarian. Mrs. Helen (Ilonka) Rose provides the beautiful organ music. Every Tuesday there is a Bible study. All services are televised on a closed circuit TV system to every room. Rev. Gabor G. Nitsch, our new Director of Pastoral Care, leads these services. Average attendance is 50 out of the 96 residents, and many more follow the services by watching it on their TV. In the Ligonier Gardens, our assisted living facility, Rev. Nitsch holds the services on Sunday afternoon, English worship at 1:45 pm, and Hungarian at 2:30 pm. Average attendance is around 30. Bible Study is held every Thursday at 11:00 am. For our Roman Catholic residents, we have the Recitation of the Rosary every day, and Rev. Msgr. William G. Chamoki, PA, JCL, C’61 S’65, from Holy Trinity RC Church, leads masses regularly at both of our facilities. Every first Sunday of the month there is a Hungarian ecumenical service held in our historical Moriah Hill Chapel at 11:00 am, by Rev. Nitsch. Our attempt is to, once again, bring together the Hungarian community, and maybe re-start a congregation. We held a Christmas Day Holy Communion service, followed by refreshments and fellowship with 15 attending. On the first Sunday of January, 8 were in attendance. We invite all Hungarians from the greater Ligonier area to come to these services. We at Bethlen Communities would like you to think of this beautiful place, in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, as your spiritual home. You will always be warmly welcomed if you stop by for meetings, or just for a visit. Rev. Gabor G. Nitsch, Director of Pastoral Care Bethlen Communities (724)331-6575 gnitsch@bethlen. com Praise the Lord, O My Soul Autobiography of John Butosi “Few people are destined to be such a dedicated and faithful servant in Christ’s mission as John Butosi. By God’s grace, he is one. Bom in Hungary, he came to the Untied States to study at a time in history when World War II was ending and Eastern Europe was under siege of Soviet domination. Little did he know that he would be unable to return to his homeland because of the political climate. Moved from childhood to begin a journey in service in ministry, he was an exceptional student earning his Master of Theology degree from Princeton and his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. But never forgetting his Hungarian roots, he embarked on a life to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to the American Hungarian Reformed people. Serving in several congregations, he set the standard in service for pastoral ministry. He traveled throughout the world for conferences and mission work in the Hungarian Reformed Community. But he also made several trips back to his homeland in Hungary; in times of communist control and later in times of uncertainty, to do Christ’s work and teach at the University that he graduated from. This book not only tells the story of a blessed life, but also a history of the times and many places that Rt. Rev. Dr. John Butosi touched. It is no doubt that he continues to leave his mark on the lives of many.” Rt. Rev. Dr. John Butosi’s autobiography is finally finished and has been released by the publisher, www.lulu.com/observer. It contains over 500 pages with approximately 300 photos. It is available for purchase on the Internet (shipped directly to your address). The price is $24.51, plus shipping and handling. To order, go to www.lulu.com ID: 1476652. Dr. Chuck Baynard Clover EPC Clover, South Carolina www. cloverepc. org A Procrastinating Spirit? “There is something of this procrastinating spirit running through a great part of life, and it is of great detriment to the work of God. We know many things that should be done, and cannot in conscience directly oppose them; but still we find excuses for our inactivity. We quiet ourselves with the thought that they need not be done just now. “This plea...prevents us from undertaking any great or good work for the cause of Christ or the good of mankind. There are difficulties in the way, and we wait for their removal. We are very apt to indulge in a kind of prudent caution (as we call it) which foresees and magnifies difficulties beyond what they really are. It becomes us to beware lest we account that impossible which only requires such a degree of exertion as we are not inclined to give it. “Perhaps it requires concurrence, and we wait for everybody to be of one mind, which is never to be expected. Instead of waiting for the removal of difficulties, we ought, in many cases to consider them as purposely laid in our way in order to try the sincerity of our religion.” — Andrew Fuller We confess biblically that there is nothing we sinners can do to change the heart of another sinner. That change is strictly in the hands, so to speak, of the Holy Spirit. Yet as Fuller and Carey rightly pointed out, God has placed the treasure of the gospel in the earthen vessel of sinners saved by grace. American Christians have greater resources, greater education, and greater access to the world than ever before. To whom much is given, much is also required. God has appointed the foolishness of gospel preaching to save those for whom his dearly beloved Son died. Dr. Richard Bacon, Pastor Faith Presbyterian Church Reformed Mesquite, TX http://fbpminister. wordpress. com
