The Hungarian Reformed Church presents its services in a year-round campaign

"This is also Reformed" - a campaign by the Hungarian Reformed Church

By: dailynewshungary.com

Jan 06 2025
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The Hungarian Reformed Church

In 2024, the Hungarian Reformed Church will be hit by unprecedented shocks. This year, hoping to resume its ministry on the path of building, the church is launching an information campaign to show the religious and social service Reformed people are providing at home and abroad.

This is also Reformed – this is the motto the Hungarian Reformed Church is using to draw attention to its service in 2025. Through the year-long information campaign, the general public will learn about the Reformed Church’s work in building bridges, healing and uplifting the fallen.

To give just a few examples, the Hungarian Reformed Charity Service helps hundreds of thousands of people in need across the Carpathian Basin, and since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, it has helped more than 400,000 refugees with donations, accommodation, Hungarian language instruction, and pastoral care. In the Bethesda Children’s Hospital, 190,000 young people are healed with Christian spirituality every year, various missions have already helped tens of thousands of people to free themselves from addiction, Reformed kindergartens, school,s and universities are also teaching and educating the future generation by the tens of thousands, and in the Bárka camps for disadvantaged children, children from incredible deprivation are encountering the joys of life and the love of God. In addition, the Church naturally sees it as its mission to be a strong support for hundreds of thousands of people who long for God but are still searching for the way to Him, for answers to the big questions of their lives. As they say, “our churches and communities are open to them”.

“2025 is the year of youth ministry in the Hungarian Reformed Church. Only through authentic living and committed service can we be worthy of becoming an example for future generations,” said József Steinbach, Pastoral President of the Synod. He added: