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Who we are
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Dr. Levente Horváth
B.A., Cluj Napoca, B.D., Edinburgh, PhD., University of Lampeter, Wales.
My wife and I have been in the service of the Reformed Mission for Addicts of the Hungarian Reformed Church from the very beginning and it has been a privilege for us. I am thankful that I’m still learning. However I’m thankful for our five children the most of all.
When in 1993 we founded the Reformed Mission for Addicts and the Bonus Pastor Foundation, I could hardly imagine that the start and the running of the Drug Therapy Centre would lead to such a wonderful story. Each breathtaking healing story of our addicted friends, who came to us during the years, makes a colorful complete story of the whole. This is a great privilege to me and a greater benefit of all my studies which I've had until now.
I believe that everybody has a tendency to addiction, including me (although it was hard for me to admit this, similarly for most people). However, since I came to realize this, the pastoral care of addicts does not seem to be a superhuman burden, because it’s like taking care of myself. If I, the most lost I’ve ever known, had the hope to recover, I consider that nobody else is a lost case. Under the aegis of this hope I’m struggling for everybody, whether considered lost by others or by themselves, with a serene understanding. |
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Endre Erdő
My name is Endre Erdő and together with my wife have been living in Târgu Mureş for four years. I have been working for the Foundation since April 2011, and I took over Sándor Magdó’s function as a Director on the 1st of June. My aim is to serve the mission of the Foundation with the management skills and talents I received from God, in other words to propagate the message that there are ways to get free from various addictions and to help people in this.
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Kálmán Adorján
I’m hoping to be, together with my wife Eva (and my companion forever), in the list of Christ’s redeemed, with our four children, with the addicted people I’m working among, as well as with my co-workers, many other acquaintances and people unknown to me (now). Although I’m not an addicted person myself, my chances for life are the same as for anybody among the addicts.
(Kálmán is the Program Coordinator at the Foundation.)
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Éva Adorján
I’ve been working for the Foundation since 2000. As a staff member of the Therapy Centre I gladly follow the progress of the residents who are entrusted to me. I’m also in the charge of the administration at the Centre.
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Mária Horváth
Originally I graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry and Physics at Babeş-Bolyai University. After taking part, along with my husband, in the work with the addicts a good few years, I enrolled in the Faculty of Social Work to re-certify myself. At present I’m working as a therapist at the Drug Therapy Centre in Ozd. I feel honored that I can go along with some people in their struggles for change.
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Éva Bartha
I've been working at the Foundation since 1996. I’ve been an office manager, have organized programs (mainly children camps) and since the Therapy Centre has been running (since 2005) I've been working there as a therapist. This year, in 2009, I will finish my studies in Psychology at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca.
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János Boros
I’ve been working at the Therapy Centre in Ozd since 2005. Before that, for approximately two years, I was trying to help as a volunteer in the local support group and in the short term therapy programs. Presently I’m serving as a leader of the Cluj Napoca support group, as a therapist in the newly formed local Romanian support group, in the Therapy Centre, in the short term therapy programs and individual counseling. In my leisure time I am doing self-study, attend the Faculty of Psychology, and continue struggling with life, which sometimes tramples me down.
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Ferenc Bálint
I was born in Harghita County, I found my way to the Therapy Centre in 2005, as a lost addict. My life has changed completely after that and now I belong to the staff of the Foundation as a recovered, content and happy person since 2007. I realized that I have life filled with God's grace, so I’m happy for every single day.
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Irén Bálint
I’ve been working for the Foundation since November 2010 as a cook. I’m doing my job and I’m happy that God led me to this community, together with my husband.
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Géza Geréb
Since 1996, after I finished my theological studies, I've been working at the Foundation. I’m doing the pre- and aftercare components in the course of individual and group activities. During my work I've seen that we should not give up hope about anybody, and there is no depth that one cannot come out from. Therefore, I think that the support groups and the individual counseling give great opportunities for that to happen.
My wife is also my co-worker. We have three children.
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Tünde Geréb
I’ve been working as a psychologist at the Bonus Pastor Foundation since 1998, first at the Cluj Napoca office, then at the Odorheiu Secuiesc counseling office. I have also been trained in Couple and Family Therapy. Along with individual counseling I also take part in the yearly programs of the Foundation: the short term therapy programs, aftercare conferences, the yearly aftercare summer camp, prevention programs for the children of addicts, etc.
I live with my husband and my children near Odorheiu Secuiesc, in Brădeşti.
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Laura Graur
(Laura has been doing the bookkeeping for Bonus Pastor since February 2010.)
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Ildikó Molnár
Since the beginning of 2009 I've been the Public Relations and Fundraising Coordinator at the Foundation. Previously I was doing similar work in the non-profit field for an international organization. I graduated from the Faculty of Letters in Cluj Napoca, and then from post graduate Project Manager Studies at the MUTF (College of Modern Business) in Odorheiu Secuiesc.
I like the diversity and the people at the Foundation. I think that we have one way out from our fallible nature: helping and trying to love each other.
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