)
111
Történetünk: (angolul)
The Presbytery of the Reformed Church in Majosháza has established a diaconial committee with 14 volunteers in November 1995 with the purpose of serving those who are in need. The biblical guideline for starting this work follows: „ Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”(Gal.6.2) There isn’t more appropriate way than this biblical passage to express how wholehearted started these volunteers the diaconial work. In starting this work receiving hospital beds, wheelchairs and other means for homecare from communities with whom we are in partnership in The Netherlands and in Germany (Our Sponsors: The Reformed Churches of Baarn, Utrecht, Rotterdam and the Karmel International Foundation from Netherlands, the Reformed Churches of Regensburg, Bielefeld and Schlangen from Germany) was of great help. Most of these parishes are supporting us with handout and donation of different kinds up till now. Some of these congregations let us get to know and be acquainted with the crafts of senior’s homecare by inviting volunteers into their institutions for professional education. This enabled us to provide appropriate care to the indigent at his/her own home. The help what we received in this way gave us the opportunity to a well-grounded work and their ongoing support ensures the self-part for those tenders by which we are to work among those in need. So their presence in this project promote our secure work in terms of financial means. The diaconial service transformed to Union form in 1996, and later in 2004 we changed our form into a Public Benefit Organization in order to attend on more tenders for being able to finance our social and medical work. At the beginning the volunteers split up the village of Majosháza into several parts and started to visit the old members of the congregation in pairs. Later, the need of those who were ill and living in indigence of the village made them to visit others as well. Paying attention to these people proved itself at many times to be enough as a mean to give relief. This gave them encouragement to welcome our volunteers as many time as possible, and it gave them the confidence of trusting on them in their social or medical problems. More and more people borrowed the home-care means, too. These visitations and the trust in each other are fixed the togetherness of the congregation’s members and the community of the village. By now it resulted in a consensus on what they would ask for from us as it follows: Home-care - backing up the families with home-care means - trying to assure the families that they can be eligable for the home-care/support of their loved relatives. - giving guarantee to the presence of either volunteers or paid special nurse, or both for them. - accompanying the moribunds - prevention - organizing filtering for diabetes, cholesterol and hypertension in every year. - providing clothes and food for the needy people. - doing laundry for the needy lonely people - visiting ills who are under medical treatment in the hospitals We have made a contract with the local government in which from January 1, 2006 we took over the home-care work duty from them. Hospice home-care As we obtained more and more experience in caring for people at their home, accompanying the moribunds and visiting our ills in hospitals the idea formulated in our mind, that there is a need for such a form of provision (maybe for a hospice-house) which assures the conditions for helping moribunds to pass away with dignity. Our aim is to give the chance to the people in the region of the little Danube for hospice home-care/provision, so their families can stay together until the last minute. Starting at January 1, 2006 our Diaconial Service has to provide this task in our little region: Áporka, Délegyháza, Dunaharaszti, Dunavarsány, Kiskunlacháza, Majosháza, Szigetcsép, Szigethalom, Szigetszentmiklós, Taksony. Hospice is such a form of provision, which provides a better quality of life for incurable - first of all cancerous – patients with extinguishing or alleviation of pains meanwhile providing assistance for the families and the mourners as well. The goal is that the patient could receive the best possible catering according his/her somatic-spiritual demands, helping to preserve human dignity until the end of life. We would like to be with them as they get more and more into the presence of God, seeing face by face, by holding their hand and satisfying their somatic-spiritual necessity until the very last minute. In hospice-catering we consider the dying person’s demands, desires and hopes, we try to disperse their fears and to offer help to their family. Each member of the hospice-team – the doctor as well – pays attention to the least complaint of the patient, they intend time to listen to them and to talk with the patient. We try to give emotional support to the patients and to their families as well. The voluntary hospice-helpers are essential associates of the hospice-team, who are giving their whole personality to the service of dying people beyond their spare-time. The mentality of the paid and voluntary co-workers are the same, everybody from them executes his/her work from internal vocation as a certain mission in life. Their togetherness is expressed in that loving community in which the dying people and their family are always in focus. Every co-worker of the hospice-team has to attend special training. The doctors and the nurses acquire the hospice methods of pain’s alleviation and symptomatic treatment, but every member of the team is to be acquainted with the principles of it and with the methods of the dying patient’s loving and commiserating care. The hospice-care is available for anybody regardless of the nation, ethnic unit, religion, solvency, but it depends on the physical, spiritual and social demands of the patients. Each form of the hospice-caring is free of charges, tipping is prohibited, if someone receives, it causes her/his renunciation at that certain state. In the summer of 2005 we attended to the tender called by the OEP (Nationwide Health Counter) for the extension of hospice homecare. In November we’ve got to know that we were among the little number of candidates who have won. From January 1. 2006 we are responsible for hospice home-care in the region. It is an extremely great obligation, but at the same time it is a chance for mission and a large step to our great dream – to build a hospice-house. “What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has no works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it is no works, is dead.” (James 2,14-17)