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return visit delegation march 2006

The following pictures express something of the sharing that was part of the visit of a delegation from the Reformed Church of Hungary in March 2006

The Hungarian Delegation is welcomed to the meeting of the Scottish Synod in the north-eastern seaside town of Nairn

Presiding Bishop dr. Guszt�v B�lcskei addresses the Scottish Synod of the URC

A cake of friendship - from the congregation in Nairn, where the Scottish Synod meeting was held

A meeting with the Youth Advisor and College Principal in the Moderator's office in Glasgow

A meeting with the College Principal in the Moderator's office in Glasgow

Ben Lomond a few days before the outing

Highland repast at the Coach House in Luss after a very snowy outing

Zoltan Tarr preaches from the high pulpit of Barrhead URC

General Secretary Zoltan Tarr at the door of Barrhead URC on a very snowy morning.

A Scottish welcome on the cultural evening in Barrhead URC church hall

"get me a guitar..."

Dr Kadar leads a rousing Hungarian folksong with la-la refrain

JOHN HUMPHREYS

A lot of UK/Hungary contacts seem to have flowed from the work of John Humphreys' time in Hungary, following which he was moderator of the Wales Synod of the URC. he has just been appointed moderator of the National Synod of Scotland. Pictures from the induction are to be found at :
http://induc.blogspot.com/

A Transylvanian experience: Rev Kirsty Thorpe

In summer 1992, Jennifer Davies and I went to a theological conference in the village of Ilieni in Transylvania, having travelled with a coachload of Hungarian ordinands from Budapest.

The conference centre had been built with financial help from Reformed Christians in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Germany. The minister, Kato Bela, was running a project to foster orphan families long term with childless couples, and had great plans to get a medical centre and other facilities to the village.

We got to know quite a few of the students, both Romanian and Hungarian, and had a rich taste of Eastern European styles of worship, theological education and the way Romania was soon after the fall of the old regime.

I had already got to know quite a few Hungarians from the period when John Morgans had been Moderator of Wales in the 1980's and made his first visit there, which resulted in the choir from Debrecen coming to sing.

Last summer Tamas Sugar anda Marta, who had been in ministry in Darwen near here, came to lunch and when I showed them photos of the Transylvania trip they knew a lot of the people I'd met. They were amazed that I'd had that experience.