Hungarian Church Press, 1957 (9. évfolyam, 14-15. szám)

1957-12-31 / 15. szám

HCHP XII.SI,1957, Vol-iX/15-16- 21 -199

Át Szentes in the 150 years old "Big Church" the local three Reformed Congregations held, a common tharlcsgivirg feast. At the festival there were present the Delegates of the Lutheran, Roman Catholic and Israelitic congregations,

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The oongregation of Kazincbareika in the county of Borsod feasts its 580 year anniversary of its existence«, On the congregation day and on the previous evangelising evenings several, next door pastors derved, headed "by the senior and two of the elders of the local congregation as well.

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István Czecrlé jv having been appointed to Dean of the Budapest Theological Academy, BeHint Kova.cs s former pastor in Kecskemét v»as installed into the vacant pastor’s office of the Bvdapest-Jézsefvdros oongrog;t?on ea.the 8th, The new'fellow-pastor was greeted by several pastors in the name of the seniorate, the Church District and the congregation«

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Kálmán Senke9 Pastor at Cnd, Chief Not cry of the Senior ate of Zemplén till now, was elected Senior by the preponderant majority of the congregations to %the vacant Senior’s Office in consequence of the election to Bishop of Lajos Darányi,

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The mnewed and enlarged oratory at the cost of 110,-000 Fe ints of the Miskolc-Csnbai-kapu congregation was dedicated by the services cf Bishop Lajos Darányi aM Senior Sándor Virá^h,

The CistisGian Pastor’s Choir organised-a church ccncert with great success in Miskolc*

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On the " Qi.jd.et -Day" organised in the Sátoraljaújhely congregation and on the elders’ conference of tlae region-. among the pastors of the congregations in the same region, one of the elders and the lay curator of the Sátoraljaújhely bore witness to Jesus. Christ in their services,

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In the near past a choir of three, congregations in Budapest-Pestimre and a choir of four congregations in Szentendre church organized er. encounter and a common church concert,

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On the "Quiet'* Day" organized for the pasters’ wives in the Zemplén Seniorate Bishop Lajos Paránya preached the ’lord,. . A lecture entitled "The Service of the Pastor and his Wife in the Congr^gaticn" was delivered which was followed by a discussion. The quie to-day ended with the evangelization of a pastor’s widow named Mrs0 Gyula. Major.

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The ''Refcsaiiátusak Lapja" published articles on the devoiopping life of the Polish Reformed Church and the Belgian Protestants in the Christmas Issue*

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