New milestone
June 30, 2016 at 12:00 pm
It
is not very often that I would say: “it is a milestone in the history of HMI,”
but this is what I proclaimed yesterday when I addressed my audience at the
opening ceremony of the new office for our ministry in Budapest. On the included name plate you can see two
logos: one for HMI and one for The Budapest Institute for Contemporary
Christianity (Budapest Kortárs Keresztény Intézet). The latter one is the subsidiary of HMI,
headed up by our new missionary Tamas J. Gyori.
This new Institute was created after the model of The London Institute
for Contemporary Christianity, founded by John Stott. Tamas visited John Stott several years ago
and studied his theology and ministry and was so deeply impressed by his
personality and accomplishments that he wanted to introduce a similar work in
Hungary as well. The time has come, and
following several years of preparation and the establishment of the leadership
group of this new organization, yesterday we were able to officially open our
new office. About thirty people attended
the ceremony representing most of the major denominations and Christian
organizations of the country. We give
thanks to God for this new initiative as we are looking forward to His blessing
our growing ministry. – Joseph Baranyi