Bethlen Naptár, 1952 (Ligonier)

Church digest for our second and third generations

BETHLEN NAPTÁR

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cently in 1950 when a new organ was installed. Their pastor since 1950 is the Rev. Nicholas Wesselényi, a learned and conscientious minister, who is working hard for spiritual development and peaceful Christian life within the congregation.

PHOENIXVILLE, PA. This congregation celebrated its fiftieth anniversary last year. Looking into the future, the congregation wisely set aside $5,000.00 for a church school building for its youth. Their able pastor is the Rev. Dr. Tibor Csikesz, who just a few years ago was recalled from Hungary to take over this charge.

STOWE, PA. is affiliated with the Phoenixville congregation and served by the same pastor.

BRIDGEPORT, CONN. (First) is one of the oldest and largest congregations in the East. Under the guidance of its wise and hard-working pastor, the Rev. Emil Nagy and the diligent youth worker, Miss Ethel Egry, thriving life and excellent youth work can be found in this congregation. Their choirs are outstanding to such a degree that their annual sacred recitals stir up community-wide interest. The church is a fine supporter of our Bethlen Home. The Ladies Aid Society, after visiting Ligonier, presented the Bethlen Home with a fully equipped RCA sound projector. ($650.00)

NEW HAVEN - SHELTON - TORRINGTON - WARRENVILLE, CONN, are mission churches, organized and served by the Rev. James Kress up to last year, when due to ill health he resigned his difficult pastorate. This vacancy has not yet been filled. The fruit of his twenty years’ labor was the building of a centralized country church in Warrenville for the use of the congregations of the mission circuit.

NEW YORK, N. Y. (69th St.) This congregation has a history of more than half a century. Its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Géza Takaró has served his congregation for the last 25 years. He is one of the old leaders of our Hungarian church life, having served in many official capacities in synodical life. He and his congregation recently joined the New York Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church.

BUFFALO, N. Y. (First Church) Its present pastor is the Rev. Béla Szigethy, who came to the United States from an Austrian displaced persons’ camp. Besides his pastoral work he edits and publishes the monthly magazine “Evangelical World Service” which is sent to displaced persons of our faith throughout the world.