Mission

Historically we have been referred to as "The Scottish Mission," and mission is at the heart of what we do.  Early after our founding, this meant evangelical publishing and outreach to the Jewish community in Budapest. Later, it was expressed in the founding of a girls school where Jewish girls and Christian girls could live and learn together. That school also became a shelter for Polish Jews leaving for safety.  Under Communism, the mission was carried on by Hungarian Reformed ministers who occasionally held services for the international community.  In recent decades, the church has reached out to refugees, whether they were from neighbouring Romania, distant Iran or, recently, Syria.  We also have cooperated with groups like the Salvation Army or mission agencies within the RCH for one-off projects

Refugee Connections

Working with refugees is not just something that we do; it is part of who we are.  As a gathering of people from other countries, it is only natural that some of our members will include people forced to flee their homeland.  

Members of our church were instrumental in the launching of the Refugee Mission of the Reformed Church in Hungary around 2005, and since then we have cooperated on multiple occasions.

More recently our main partners in this outreach has been the Kalunba Charity Group, who set up the Salaam Overnight Shelter in our space in 2015 to welcome families who would have otherwise slept at railway stations. We have also given space for their language lessons, social support services, clothing drives and community programs.

As a mixture of foreigners and Hungarians in Budapest, we take to heart the words of scripture: And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19)

Giving

YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MISSION HERE.

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