This is a bit of an unusual year for Balázs Scholars, the Unitarian ministers and professors from Transylvania studying at Starr King School for the Ministry. This year there are two, each visiting for a semester. Rev. Dr. Szabolcs (Szabi) Czire has departed and Rev. … read more.
The people have spoken! They like goulash, and Hoa’s sandwiches, too. The Partner Church Committee has brought in over $300 at each of our last two snack tables. Thank you for enjoying delicious food and helping support the students from Homoródújfalu.
If you check the kiosk … read more.
The Transylvanian Partner Church Committee sent $4,000 to Homoródújfalu in December. $3,700 was directed to scholarships for students from the village, while $200 went for gifts for the children and $100 went to Reverend Arpad Ilkei to help defray his expenses. The $4,000 came directly … read more.
In an effort to elicit a response from Arpad, minister of our partner church in Transylvania, we asked this year’s Balazs Scholar at Starr King to send him an email. Here is what Szabi Czire sent:
Kedves Árpád!
Szeretnénk gyakrabban hallani felőletek! Jó … read more.
Thanks to all of you who have made contributions to our Village Education Fund. Whether you made a direct cash donation or bought goulash or other treat at our snack table it will all end up supporting students in our partner village. Right now we … read more.
When you received your latest statement of your contributions to UUCB, did you open it or set it aside? If you opened it, did you read the yellow insert? If you read it, did you make a contribution to the Village Education Fund? Perhaps you … read more.
Those of us on the Transylvanian Partner Church Committee are fresh out of ideas, and I’m not so sure that fresh is the right word. Stale out of ideas? There’s only a handful of active members, and contributions to the Village Education Fund are not … read more.
Are you hungry? Got a yearning for some gulyas? (That’s goulash in Hungarian) Or maybe you want one of Hoa’s sandwiches, and maybe you want to support the students from our partner church in Homoródújfalu. Not hungry, but still want to support the students? How … read more.
I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy a piece of cake or some fruit on Father’s Day when we bade farewell to this year’s Balázs Scholar, the Rev. Karoly Vass, and his family. The children went home wearing blue and gold Cal t-shirts to … read more.
As we bid farewell to our ministers, Revs. Barbara and Bill Hamilton-Holway, we’ll take time to remember their visits to our partner church in Homoródújfalu. They made pilgrimages in 1998 and 2001. We have two big binders of pictures and much more that Barbara and … read more.
