Magyar Egyház, 1960 (39. évfolyam, 1-9. szám)

1960-05-01 / 5. szám

MAGYAR EGYHÁZ

9

To bring you up to date as to the plans of our forthcoming Women’s Conference, to be held Sunday June 12th, in Perth Amboy, N. J„ we are herewith publishing the schedule of the day’s activities. Since upon arrival you will be asked to register for the workshop you would like to attend it would be most helpful if you read the workshop topics with this thought in mind and thus eliminate unnecessary confusion during registration. The list is varied enough to interest everyone and for those of you who find it difficult to make a choice, keep in mind that we shall all have an opportunity to hear what has been discussed in the other groups when we reconvene to exchange ideas.

THEME:

"WOMEN IN THE CHURCH - SILENT OR WITNESSES"

Registration: 2:00—2:50 P.M.

(At the Hungarian Reformed Church Center)

Devotional Service: 3:00 P.M.

(At the Church)

Separation into language groups:

Hungarian group — Remain in the Church building English group — Return to the Center

Speaker: 3:30 P.M.

Hungarian: Dean Gabor Csordás English: Mrs. W. Murdoch MacLeod

General Director of United Church Women

Workshops — 4:00-5:00 P.M.

1— Women’s responsibilities within the church itself.

2— Church Women’s responsibility to youth.

3— Church women and Christian Education.

4— Problems in our women’s organizations.

5— Mixed marriages.

6— Women’s responsibilities in the home and community.

7— Giving (Time—Talents—Money?)

8— Church women and missions.

9— Are we lacking in harmony?

10—Basic goal of our Women’s organizations.

Reconvene for

exchange of ideas: 5:10-6:00 P.M.

Moderators: Dean Gabor Csordás Mrs. Peter Dudich

Supper 6:15 P.M.

and

fellowship

Let us try to have a nice delegation from every church in the New York and Eastern Classis—the distance is not too great and the subject is indeed worthwhile. Remember women of all ages, whether a member of any church organization or not are most welcome.

See you then —

Elizabeth T. Dudich

WE QUOTE . . .

“We have persuaded ourselves that truth cannot survive without freedom, whereas it is freedom that cannot survive without truth”. Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg, president of the National Council of Churches speaking at the White House Conference on Children and Youth.

Origins of Pentecost

The title-page of our present issue shows the 1960 Pentecost poster of the World Council of Churches. Its theme is “One Spirit—One Body” and features the descending dove, simbolizing the Holy Spirit. It was designed by John Taylor, from the World Council of Churches in Geneva.

The Christian Pentecost had its origin when the Christian community of Jerusalem (120 people) gathered together, fifty days after the resurrection, to celebrate an age-old religious festival. At that time, according to the second chapter of the Book of Acts, the Holy Spirit which Jesus had promised His followers, descended upon them, and some 3,000 converts were made to faith in Christ. Many historians date from that event the beginning of the Christian Church, and in particular, its sense of world-wide mission and responsibility. It is a time of renewal and revitalization, a time of promise fulfilled and of setting out to share this good news with all one’s fellow-men, even in distant parts of the earth.

Pentecost is probably the most ancient religious festival which we celebrate today. In the early Jewish calendar, Pentecost, or the Feast of Weeks, was dedicated to gratitude to God for the gift to Noah of the “Covenant” (involving the regular and orderly sequence of events in the physical universe — “seedtime and harvest”). Later, Pentecost became associated with the giving of the Law to Moses at Mount Sinai. While most other Jewish festivals were just for their own community, this one paid a great deal of attention to including the stranger, or those of other faiths, who happened to be in the home or community at the time.

For the World Council of Churches, because of its ecumenical or worldwide nature, Pentecost has special significance. Many of its 172 churches in 53 nations use this day as an oportunity to help the local congregation better understand the world-wide fellowship of the local church.

ALGERIA

The Synod of the Reformed Churches in Algeria has approved the establishment of a Protestant study centre, which will concentrate on the question of Islam. The Synod appealed to the churches to realize that they had a special task of evangelism because of their situation in a Moslem society.

Attention til Women!