Magyar Egyház, 1990 (69. évfolyam, 3-6. szám)
1990-05-01 / 3. szám
MAGYAR EGYHÁZ 9. oldal NEW BRUNSWICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY GRADUATED TWO NEW HUNGARIAN MINISTERS Stefan Nyeste and Mihály Orosz received their Master of Divinity degrees at the May 14 Commencement exercises from New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Both young ministers have been under the care of and supported by the Hungarian Reformed Church in America and by the Calvin Synod Conference of the United Church of Christ during their years of theological studies. The Rev. Stefan Nyeste has been serving — up to now as student pastor — the Hungarian Reformed Church (Calvin Synod) of Columbus, OH. The Rev. Mihály Orosz has been pastoring the Hungarian Reformed mission church of Schenectady, NY (member of our New York Classis) while serving the Mont Pleasant Reformed Church in Schenectady, NY. At the Commencement Bishop Harsanyi had an opportunity to speak with Dr. Robert A. White, President of the Seminary and thank him for the special care accorded to the two new graduates and also in general for the special attention given to the Hungarian theological students who have studied in New Brunswick in the past. In his response, Dr. White praised the diligence of the Hungarian students and their fine academic progress. WORTH REMEMBERING The primary goal of international dialogues is not visible unity but mutual respect and right awareness of one another. + The church’s aim is to embrace and to renew the whole world, to transfigure it into God’s kingdom. FROM THE BISHOP'S NOTEBOOK I saw it, 1 heard it, I jotted it down: H* Could God have created the universe if He had asked us first? Hr“ Hugh T. Kerr quotes from J. Pelikan in the April, 1990 editorial of Theology Today: “Tradition is the living faith of the past,” while Traditionalism is the dead faith of the present. H" The Church’s mission does not happen “somewhere”; it happens in the congregation. H“ The misuse and destruction of the natural world is not simply technical mis-development but an explecit sin against what belongs to God. H* We need a God-fearing attitude to nature. H* Many Christians feel to be consultants in the business firm “Fellowship of God, Inc.” Andrew Harsanyi REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE The Bishop’s Office receives many requests for financial aid from churches and individuals. We are going to list them consecutively appealing to the generosity of our church people. The appeal announced early this year for donations to the Reformed General Fund for Erdély is still valid. Proceeds to this Fund are mainly appropriated to the needs of the Theological Seminary of Kolozsvár. For years under the oppressive Rumanian regime only an annual contingent of a few seminarians were admitted; now about 120 students-to-be who have been found qualified will be able to study. A large amount of money is needed for this purpose. Moneys are still needed (and lots of it) for the reestablishment of the high schools of Sárospatak, Budapest and Pápa. Further requests: The repair of the church-roof of the small Reformed church of Kisléta (close to Nyírbátor) will cost 5 thousand dollar; The pastor of the Reformed Church near the station in Kolozsvár (the Rev. Sándor Sogor) requests financial aid of any amount; Kolozsvár-Felsőváros is about to build a church edifice (Pastor Géza Pap, Chief Elder Sándor Bódi); Nemesócsa (in Slovakia) for bell and parsonage; The Kistemplom (“Small church”), a historical monument in Debrecen, unusable at present. Donations for the above causes, individually separated, should be, sent to the Mission Fund of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America, to the Synod Treasurer, Ms. Priscilla Hunyady, 50 Washington Ave., Colonia, NJ 07067. Checks should be earmarked according to the various causes on the “Memo” line of the check, as Sárospatak, Budapest, Pápa, Kisléta, Kolozsvár-Pastor Sogor, Kolozsvár-church building, Nemesócsa, Debrecen-Small Church. Donations will be acknowledged in Magyar Egyház.
