Arpad and Andrea Horvat Kavai
Country:
Hungary
Ministry Name:
golgota11 (calvary11) - Calvary Chapel, 11th District of Budapest, Hungary
Reménység Pastoral Counselling Centre, Budapest, Hungary
Pentacostal Theological Seminary, Budapest, Hungary
Mailing Address:
Hadak útja 39.
1119 Budapest
Hungary
Ministry Description:
Árpád served as the pastor of Calvary Chapel Pécs, Hungary between January 2000 and April 2007 while teaching at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe. In 2007 God called Árpád and Andrea to serve at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe full-time, first in Vajta, and then in Budapest. As of August 2019, Árpád is the senior pastor of golgota11, a Calvary Chapel church plant in the 11th district of Budapest, an assistant professor at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Budapest, and a counselor at a pastoral counselling centre. Andrea translates books and The Bible Project videos into Hungarian and leads the ladies' ministry.
Árpád was born in Subotica, Serbia in 1973. He grew up in a Catholic home, but he did not know Christ personally until he was invited to Calvary Chapel Subotica during his high-school years. After a couple of years, in 1997, God called him to study at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe. After finishing college, as part of my internship there, he co-lead an outreach team to Southern Hungary. During this mission trip the team visited Pécs (Hungary) as well, where they found themselves welcomed by a team sent out by Campus Crusade for Christ to minister at the University of Pécs. After the outreach, some of the team members (including Árpád) felt the Lord calling them back to Pécs to preach the gospel and to start Bible studies for the students they were introduced to by the Campus Crusade for Christ team. Árpád served as the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Pécs between 2000 and 2007, and as a teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe between 2002 and 2019. In 2017 Árpád and his family moved to Budapest and they have been involved in different church ministries there. He and his wife Andrea (you might know her as Andi) have two beautiful daughters, Nina and Zoé.