Calvin Synod Herald, 1976 (76. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1976-09-01 / 9-10. szám
8 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD suitably dressed to eliminate any necessity for heating or cooling the building. This will dispose of the fuel bill. Each person will come to church with broom and dust mop to keep his part of the building presentable. Then a paid custodian will not be necessary. Those who wish to use water will bring it in their own bottles; those who wish more light will bring their own flashlights — or candles. Each member will bring materials and tools to remodel and repair the building. Here we can really save! Each member will spend some time working in the church office. If anyone desires a copy of the church bulletin or newsletter, he or she will bring supplies for printing same. This eliminates the expense of office help and equipment. Each member will take a turn preaching, leading services, conducting funerals, performing marriages, calling on new members and new people, visiting the sick and guiding the administration of the church. This will save expense of a minister. Each must agree to spend at least a year as a missionary at one’s own expense in some foreign field. This will dispense with the need to support any work outside the local community. Thus we can be known as the “church that needs no money.” What a spectacle it will make as men and women, boys and girls, bundled up head to foot, walk dutifully to church carrying water bottles, brooms, dust mops, sheet music, sermon manuscripts, flashlights, saws, hammers, and other baggage. Isn’t this a great idea? A new day is dawning for the “church that needs no money.” Would you really wish it this way? If not, give God ten percent of your income, and the church can operate in the Scriptural manner, with a tithe of its members’ income. But actually — your church needs no money! YOU are the one who uses the heat, lights, water, and music. YOU are the one who makes use of the pastor, the custodian, organist and secretary as you sit in your pew, comfortable and happy. You are the one who sends others to minister in mission. So . . . which will it be? The brooms and mops — or the weekly envelope with your tithes? Penn Central News Spring 1976 Official Communications (Continued from page 2) Lapja was also received. We struggle with many problems here. BETHLEN NAPTÁR is in final preparation. Pastors are urged to send report and pictures directly to the Home without delay following the specifications of Supt. L. Nagy. DR. ROBERT V. MOSS, president of our denomination underwent a very serious operation. Council urges congregations to raise their prayers to God on his behalf. THE REV. ZOLTÁN SZABÓ was elected pastor of the South Norwalk Church on Sept. 12, 1976. Thus he resigned as pastor of the Columbus church, effective Nov. 1, 1976. Persons interested in the Columbus vacancy are to call the Bishop’s Office as soon as possible. DAYTON, Ohio is the other member church which is still vacant (in addition to Columbus, Ohio and Coatesville, Pa.). Interested persons must call the Bishop. Dr. S. Szabó is the administrator. THE NEW CHURCH BUILDING of the Calvin Reformed Church at Lynwood, 111. was dedicated on Sept. 12, 1976. Bishop Butosi and area clergy participated in the impressive service and banquet. In ten years this is the second time that this congregation erects edifice to the glory of God; in 1966 it cost them $309,798.17, and in 1976 $322,000.00. Mr. L. Bojtos was the architect of the air - conditioned edifice. Rev. Victor Orth is the pastor. The whole Synod congratulates! THE CHURCH BUILDING of Cleveland East Side has been declared historical edifice by the U.S. government’s proper agency. The event will be celebrated in November. DR. JOSEPH PIRI whose cantata award ($500.00) was won by Dr. L. Szathmary, is visiting his mother in the old country. He is also trying to get 100 copies of the new Hungarian bibles. CONGRATULATIONS to Grace Community Church at Bethlehem, celebrating their 70th anniversary on Sept. 19; to the Ladies’ Aid Society of our Gary, Ind. church celebrating their 60th anniversary on Oct. 17; let us share our joys and sorrows by notifying the Bishop’s Office! THE NEW PENSION PLAN of the United Church of Christ is under way. Participating pastors received information about it. Read it and return the “green” sheet before Oct. 31, 1976! WEDDINGS in the parsonages: two daughters of Rev. and Mrs. Zoltán Kovács (Munhall, Pa.) and a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Ludwig (Ind. Harbor, Ind.) were married this summer. (Rev. and Mrs. Imre Bertalan’s daughter was also married.) May God bless them all! IN BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 55 persons worked for 37 days, a total of 1,800 hours (225 working days) in preparing the parsonage for the new pastor and saving approximately $3— 4,000. In addition, 25 men in four trucks accomplished the moving from Norwalk to Bridgeport. MINUTES OF THE SYNOD MEETING which was forwarded one way or another to every church should be studied by consistories and recommendations implemented by congregations! MISSION is the heart beat of the church, yet only one congregation has submitted payment to O.C.W.M. Let us remember our synod appeals in Erdély, South America, also the Bicentennial Monument in Washington, D.C. and the Galley Slave plaque (costing more than $1,000). DO YOU KNOW that the UCBHM Bonding Program is available to our congregations : commercial blanket bond of $10,000 cost the churches $9.00 for three years!
