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Sharing America's Resources Abroad — SARA A Christian ministry offering medical assistance to improve lives around the world |
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Please consider including SARA in your
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See SARA in action on YouTube! • Roma settlement, Transcarpathia, Ukraine • Mental hospital in Transcarpathia, Ukraine • State orphanage for disabled children in Ukraine Related article from December 2000 United Church News • Dental Program in the Ukraine All
videos produced by Andrew J. Tonn |
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Children of the Mangroves
In El Espino, El Salvador, children must dig for clams and oysters several hours a day to provide their families' only income. Photo Album: The Children of the Mangroves Read their story and see what SARA is doing to help. |
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Steve Szilagyi publishes memoir |
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How SARA began — with one child and one doctor |
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This was the way SARA began. Helping one child and one physician. Today, the procedure to correct scoliosis is being done regularly in Hungary, and hundreds of children stand straight and tall because of it. Photo Album: SARA Ukrainian Orthopedic Surgery Program 2008
Since that beginning, more than $18 million of medical
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Financial support is needed to help SARA pay for the transportation costs of shipping supplies to various countries around the world. |
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To make a contribution, please contact: Conference Minister 1-800-282-0740 |
For information about
SARA's
mission and medical supplies, please contact: (440) 593-2021 |
| SARA is a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the Ohio Conference of the United Church of Christ, a 501c3 corporation. All gifts are tax deductible. | |
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SARA Officers, 2008-09 |
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President: Dr. Fleming Fallon ffallon@bgnet.bgsu.edu Vice-President: Mr. Robert
Chandler Treasurer:
Rev. Ralph Quellhorst |
Executive Director: Rev. Stephen Szilagyi szilsara@suite224.net Secretary: Ms. Jean Szilagyi |
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SARA Director Steve Szilagyi publishes memoir From Trafford Publishing website (www.trafford.com):
About the BookReverend Stephen Szilagyi encounters a boy with a crooked back on a street corner in 1988 Communist-controlled Hungary. The events which follow inspire him to found the SARA ministry and to write this memoir: From Habakkuk to SARA. Through his good works, not only one child but thousands have benefitted from the outpouring of medical equipment, supplies, and advanced medical techniques continuing to flow back to the region from which he escaped as a Hungarian refugee four decades earlier. Intertwined with the story of SARA, Reverend Szilagyi’s life unfolds as he escapes from oppression in his homeland, becomes a pastor in America by a curious route, and serves congregations throughout the Midwest for over forty years. He speaks of personal triumphs such as preaching at the White House in 1970 and accepting a medal from the President of Ukraine in 2008 for his humanitarian efforts. He also recounts heartaches and disappointments and, yes, miracles along the way. His memoir reflects not only an amazing life adventure but the loving presence of Christ in his ministry. 126 pages, paperback, $14.50 Copies are available in the Ohio Conference UCC office, 6161 Busch Blvd, Suite 95, Columbus OH 43229, 800-282-0740, ohioucc@ocucc.org. Also available from the publisher at www.trafford.com and at www.amazon.com About the AuthorIn 1952, Stephen Szilagyi escaped from Communist-controlled Eastern Europe, arriving in the United States as a penniless refugee. Ironically, he returned in 1953 as an American GI to the same area he left! Upon discharge he entered seminary and was ordained as a pastor in the United Church of Christ, serving congregations throughout the Midwest for over forty years. By curious circumstances, in 1988 he was moved to found the SARA ministry which flourishes today on an international scale. "Retired" at age 75, he resides with wife, Jean, in Conneaut, Ohio and continues annual SARA Mission trips unabated.
SARA News • Spring 2009 Update on Svetlana • April United Church News article Russian teen who received scoliosis surgery in 2007 has had two more operations to complete her treatment, and is now a happy 20-year-old looking forward to a career in travel.
Trip to Serbia • May 31 – June 8 For details, please contact Rev. Attila Szemesi at (440) 225-4450 or amherstintegrity@centurytel.net. Visit www.amherstucc.org to see photos and video clips from previous SARA trips to Serbia.
Trip to Transcarpathia • May 28 – June 11 Alan and Elaine Mikesell will lead the group. Work project at the Good Samaritan Reformed Children’s Home... The group will visit the Children’s Hospitals, the mental health hospital and orphanages in the area. The cost will be less than $2,000 and includes one day in Budapest before return to U.S. Contact Alan Mikesell for information: anemikesell@hughes.net or 419-568-8164.
Second trip to Transcarpathia after June 15 This group will be led by Dr. Jim Waite. He has been filling a container to ship to the Dutch who will then transport the goods to Transcarpathia.
September trip to Ukraine Medical teams will work at Good Samaritan Children’s Home, the orphanage at Ra't and other locations. Dates: September 4 - 22. Room for more team members. For information, contact Marty Siegel, martyot@hotmail.com or 419-483-5929 or Lana Sakash, sakash@bright.net, 419-927-2836.
Pediatrician to study in U.S. Csaba Orosz will coordinate a visit by a pediatrician from Romania. She will go to the University of Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center in October and/or November. SARA will underwrite her expenses. |
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