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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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Sándor Magdó
I’ve been working at the Bonus Pastor Foundation for seven years now and since 2005 I have been the Executive Director.
It’s an excellent team (although they don’t always display this all to the director…!)
It is a God blessed work, but it also tries us hard, and without faith (and humor) it would be impossible to do.
A few statistics about me: I’m living in Târgu Mureş with my wife (she is also working at a Foundation) and our four kids, along with two dogs, one cat, four guinea-pigs, a turtle... |
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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 have life with grace...
(Ferenc is a therapist at the Therapy Centre in Ozd.)
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János Tánczos Csíki
I was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc and presently I live in Târgu Mureş with my wife. During my career I’ve been an electritian, a joiner, a sanitation assistant. I have been practicing the latter for ten years. My favourite hobby is woodcarving.
Both my past and my present life have been very colourful. I have had the chance to look at the Portage therapy model from inside, since I was also affected personally. I like this therapy model very much and I enjoy working within it. In the Therapy Centre are my "faith-mates"!
I believe in God...
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László Szalcer
I was born in Cluj Napoca and have lived in Ozd since 2002. I love animals and plants. At the moment I’m the gardener and the chauffeur at the Foundation - more precisely in Ozd.
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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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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 are expecting out third child to be born.
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Emese Tánczos Csíki
I've been the Office Manager at the Foundation for almost two and a half years (since 2007). Still I would not like to become an “office slug”, that’s why I gladly take part in any programs where I can meet the clients, my co-workers, or the people outside our work. It’s a unique experience to take part in a work which means revival and recovery for many people. Also for me...
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Teréz Fülpesi
I’ve been doing the bookkeeping for Bonus Pastor since 2005, and I’m also in charge of several financial and administrative aspects of the work. I serve with pleasure for an organization where the emphasis is on human values, relationships and community with God, rather than on financial and profit-making issues.
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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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