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Our sweet, adorable failures
Are we a society of failures? There are so many signs of this around us. Our lives revolve among a never-ending back and forth so much that we often have the feeling we are in a perpetual roundabout… Let’s face this Human D(evolution) through time and find a spiritual transition to a better vision of…
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Ukraine Between East and West
Dr. Don Cooper will give an overview on the history, politics, and culture of Eastern vs. Western Ukraine, plus a video presentation from Rev. Zsolt Solymosi of our partner church in Romania.
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Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself . . . The Real Test
Rev. Solymosi will speak to us from Romania via video recording.
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Connecting with Transylvania
Rev. Zsolt Solymosi is the minister of the Unitarian Church in Beszterce, Romania, our partner church. This service will include participation by the UUCC Partner Church Committee along with Zsolt and his congregation.
In-Person Services, Columbia, SC Sundays 11AM
Speaker: Rev. Zsolt Solymosi
Rev. Zsolt Solymosi is a Unitarian minister in Transylvania, Romania, who has been serving from 19 years the Beszterce Unitarian Congregation, partnered with UUCC, and living in the second largest city in Romania, Cluj-Napoca, where he is a vice-principal and teacher at the János Zsigmond Unitarian Highscool, one of the oldest academic school institutions in Eastern Europe, and actually one of the best-rated schools in the country.
Zsolt is very involved in organizing extra-curricular activities for the students, such as bike expeditions, study visits to Holocaust memorial sites, international student-exchange programs and choir tours.
He encourages volunteer and social justice work in his community, in recent period organizing fundraising, shelter- and study-support for the Ukrainian refugees living in the city, and he also coordinated a large humanitarian aid transport for the Turkish-Syrian earthquake survivors.
In 2018, he received the Pro Cultura Hungarica award for the unique way of organizing bike expeditions that open the mind and heart of the future generations, and recently in 2023 he was awarded with the Gold Cross Merit of the Hungarian Republic for his teaching work.