Janosfalva -- Our Partner Church Our most distant outreach this past dozen years has been to Parochia Unitaria in the tiny village of Janosfalva, Romania. Money raised and contributed by our members has enabled that congregation to purchase farm machinery, repair a deteriorating school to make it useable by the village children, renovate the parsonage, and continue buying computers and other school equipment.

Each spring we celebrate the Festival of the First Bread with a Romanian dinner prepared by our members and an auction of clothing and decorative items made by members of the Parochia Unitaria congregation, with the proceeds sent directly to that Partner Church for good works in the village and surrounding farms. Several of our members have visited Janosfalva, and the minister there, Rev. Sandor Simo and his wife Melinda, have visited us here in Iowa City.

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Pilgrimage to Janosfalva, September 2013