Calvin Synod Herald, 1977 (77. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1977-01-01 / 1-2. szám
REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA 5 One Great Hour of Sharing — March 20 The One Great Hour of Sharing all-church offering supports a wide variety of service and development projects undertaken all around the world. The World Service Division of the United Church Board for World Ministries serves as - “conduit” for this expression of your compassion. Last year, more than $1.5 million was contributed to OGHS over-and-beyond the amount given to Basic Support of Our Christian World Mission. While the OGHS offering may be taken at any time of the year as determined by the congregation, the suggested time is the fourth Sunday in Lent, which in 1977 falls on March 20. The OGHS theme this year is “More than Bread.” Materials which can ISTVÁN CSÁKÁNY DIES HEROIC DEATH IN BRAZIL The Rev. István Csákány, minister serving the Reformed Christian Church in Rrazil, died a tragic but heroic death on January 10, 1977. He gathered the Hungarian young people for the Annual Conference at “Fecskefészek” (Swallow’s Nest), the seashore conference camp of the Hungarian churches. The under-tow carried a young girl toward the open sea, Mr. Csákány went after her, saved her life, but he himself drowned. The Rev. Csákány spent years as a missionary in Kenya. He started his work in Brazil in November 1975. The funeral was a moving ecumenical affair. Mrs. Csákány, herself a minister, will continue the missionary work. “There is no greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13 MAGYAR THEOLOGIAN TEACHES IN KENYA A minster-theoliogian of the Reformed Church in Hungary has just begun a three-year period of service with the Presbyterian Church of East Africa. He is Dr. József Pungur, pastor of a Budapest city congregation and an official of the Church’s Foreign Relations Department. Dr. Pungur who will be teaching systematic theology at St. Paul’s United Theological College, Limuru, Kenya, succeeds another Hungarian theologian, Dr. Janos Pásztor, who has returned to his home country. A valedictory worship service in Budapest last month was conducted by Dr. Tibor Bartha, presiding bishop of the Reformed Church, and by Bishop István Szamosközi. (RPS) be used to promote this offering in the local church were mailed to each congregation in January. The national goal for 1977 is 2,000,000. The One Great Hour of Sharing funds are used for disaster relief, refugee (or displaced persons) service, and programs of social service and development. When your congregation’s leaders call upon you for your support, be prepared to support OGHS to the full. Millions are in need of bread for their daily sustenance. They also need more than bread: medicines, vitamines, clothing, bedding, sewing machines, seeds, fertilizers, tools, loan funds, training, education — all brought with hope and dignity and in a witness to the love of God for all humanity. HUNGER - SOME FACTS 1. The great plains of North America provide 60 % of the total wheat of the world’s trade markets. 2. Sixty percent of the world’s 4 billion people are estimated to be malnourished, physically underdeveloped and poorly educated. 3. Twenty percent of the world’s people are believed to be starving at this moment. 4. Two years ago, the people in underdeveloped nations were paying 80% of their incomes for food. The price of food has tripled in the last year. 5. The poorer % of the world’s population eats only % of the world’s protein — mostly in cereals. 6. If you choose not to eat a hamburger to conserve some of the U.S. consumption of beef, but do not divert the money you would have spent to world hunger, you have not helped the world hunger crisis. 7. Cutting back on luxuries and diverting the money to world hunger will do as much as not eating beef and other protein products. 8. The people in the U.S. use annually 3 million tons of fertilizer on its lawns, golf courses and cemeteries — enough to produce food to keep several million people alive. 9. For every dollar of fertilizer that Bangladesh cannot buy this year, it will have to spend $5 to import food next year. 10. Harvard nutritionist Jean Mayer has estimated that the same amount of food that is feeding 210 million Americans could adequately feed 1.5 billion Chinese on an average Chinese diet.
