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Janosfalva -- Our Partner Church
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 Festival of First Bread
Saturday, January 28, 2012
6 PM in Channing Hall
Join us for our annual
celebration of the Festival of
First Bread, a dinner and
auction to benefit our partner
church, the
Parochia
Unitaria in Janosfalva,
Romania.
A fun and important evening with
delicious Hungarian
food, music and
conversation. All
profits from the event
and all donations on
Sunday January 29 go
to support our Partner
Church. Tickets are
$20, and will be on
sale between services
each Sunday until the
event and at the door.
Be generous in your
support. Come! If you
have questions, please
contact
Mary Kathryn Wallace.
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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.
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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.
Pilgrimage to Janosfalva, September 2010
Learn more
about our
UU Partner Church
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Unitarian
Universalist
Society
of
Iowa City