Calvin Synod Herald, 1981 (81. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1981-01-01 / 1-2. szám

REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA

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ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING IS COMING SOON

The annual One Great Hour of Sharing all-church offering is coming soon. Most congregations will observe OGHS on March 29, 1981. Congregations of the United Church of Christ should j-eceive their automatic shipments of promotional materials for One Great Hour of Sharing during January. If your congregation’s shipment has not arrived by February 1, please notify the Distribution Service of the Stewardship Council, 1505 Race Street, Room 618, Philadelphia, PA 19102.

In promoting OGHS this year, you may wish to use a brand-new filmstrip, “The Road to Zapotal,” produced by Church World Service. The filmstrip tells about the work of CEDEN, a church agricultural and community development agency in Honduras. CEDEN is assisted with funds from the OGHS offering. If you wish to schedule a showing of “The Road to Zapotal,” arrange soon to borrow it from your Conference-related resource center or audiovisual library. Only a limited number of copies are available for circulation.

Clipsheet Jan. 81

THE PERFECT PASTOR

Results of a computerized survey indicate the perfect pastor preaches exactly 15 minutes. He condemns sin, but never upsets anyone. He works from 8:00 a.m. until midnight and is also a janitor. He makes $60.00 a week, wears good clothes, buys good books, drives a good car, and gives about $50.00 weekly to the poor.

He is 28 years of age, has been preaching 30 years. He is wonderfully gentle and handsome. He has a yearning desire to work with teenagers and spends all his time with senior citizens.

The perfeot pastor smiles all the time with a straight face because he has a sense of humor that keeps him seriously dedicated to his work. He makes 15 calls daily to parish families, shut-ins and hospitalized — spends all his time evangelizing the unchurched and is always in his office when needed.

If your pastor does not measure up, simply send this letter to six other parishes that are tired of their pastor, too. Then bundle up your pastor and send him to the church at the top of the list. In one week, you will receive 643 pastors .. . and one of them should be perfect.

Have faith in this letter. One parish broke the chain and got its old pastor back in less than three months. Copied-NEWS ITEMS —

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE

APPEALS FOR ITALIAN RELIEF CONTRIBUTIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. 1—Church World Service, the international relief and development arm of the National Council of Churches, has appealed to its 32 member church bodies for $100,000 in relief funds for earthquake-stricken Italy.

Donations from individuals or churches may be sent to: Church World Service, Italian Relief, 475 Riverside Dr., New York, NY 10115.

Church World Service has already air-freighted 4,100 blankets worth $16- 400 and one million water-purification tablets worth $13,000 to the Italian government. The $100,000 appeal will be used to pay for those goods and provide for subsequent relief and rehabilitation efforts.

According to CWS Assistant for Emergency Response Stanley Mitton, the agency hopes to send funds and future shipments to the Federation of Italian Evangelical Churches, a Protestant group. The federation is providing emergency aid in areas where

its member churches are able to coordinate the effort.

Church World Service may also send funds or goods to the World Council of Churches, which is active in the relief effort.

NCC NEWS, 12-1-80

MONEY FOR THE CHURCH'S MINISTRIES

Last March, the Stewardship Council of the United Church of Christ published an important new stewardship resource to aid congregations throughout our denomination in securing greater financial commitments from their members.

Since its publication, sales of this new five-booklet resource, entitled “Money for the Church’s Ministries,” have greatly exceeded expectations. And church leaders throughout the denomination have continued to praise it as a truly useful resource.

“A top-notch series!” writes a U.C.C. pastor from North Carolina. A U.C.C. Conference Minister has said: “It’s a super job.” And a U.C.C. Conference Chairperson for Mission and Stewardship has praised it as “Excellent for congregations of all sizes.”

The resource is intended for use beginning as early as possible in each calendar year.

If you want to know more in time to start using “Money for the Church’s Ministries” this New Year, you can order it for use in your congregation, at $6 per set, from the Distribution Service of the Stewardship Council, Room 618, 1505 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102.

CLIPSHEET. Jan. 81.

NEW REFORMED CHURCH IN

KOLOZSVÁR (CLUJ, RUMANIA)

It was in 1960 that the Kerékdomb Reformed parish, in one of the suburbs of Kolozsvár, became an independent mother parish. The parishioners first used a wooden stucture for their services of worship, but in 1977 they succeeded in beginning the construction of a new church. The work on the new church building has since been going on and has been financed mainly by the parishioners themselves with the help of Reformed congregations living in Transylvania and in other countries.

HCP Aug., 80