Presbyterian Church in Ireland - Mission Overseas - UKRAINE: Visit to the Trancarpathian Reformed Church

30th April 2010

At the invitation of Bishop Sandor Zan Fabian of the Transcarpathian Reformed Church (TRC), Rev Uel Marrs (Overseas Secretary) will be making a short visit to Transcarpathia in Western Ukraine next week, from Tuesday 4th to Saturday 8th May.

TRC is an ethnic Hungarian denomination which is linked with the Reformed Church in Hungary (HRC) and serves the mainly Hungarian-speaking population of Western Ukraine.

The purpose of Uel’s visit is twofold:

1. To meet Bishop Sandor for the first time and to consider together how PCI might develop and strengthen its links with the TRC, which in recent years has been mainly through various teams
   
   
2. To meet with Jenni Wolfe (from First Islandmagee) and staff at Nagyberegi Református Líceum (NBRL), the Reformed Church secondary school in the village of Nagybereg (Berehi), where Jenni has been teaching since last August. 

Please pray

• For safe and trouble-free travel.
  
  
• For Uel and Bishop Sandor as they meet and seek to find ways of strengthen the links between our two churches. Pray for discernment and wisdom to know what is practical and what would be a blessing and help in both our contexts.
  
  
• That Uel’s visit will be an encouragement to Jenni and to the staff and students at NBRL. Give thanks for Jenni’s faithful and fruitful service to date and pray for her as she looks to coming back home later this summer.
  

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