Bonus Pastor Foundation

ORGANISATION Fundatia Bonus Pastor

ADDRESS Str. Ponorului Nr. 1
400075 Cluj Napoca,
Jud. Cluj
Romania 

TELEPHONE / Fax 0040-264-441969
Mobile phone: 0040-0742-574841

CONTACT PERSON/S: Rev. Levente Horvath

Purpose
Bonus Pastor Foundation (BPF) is a Christian organisation in Romania. Its aim is to speak and act out the love message of Jesus Christ to people who suffer from alcohol and drug addiction in Transylvania. BPF seeks to help all people in need - irrespective of their national or ethnic origin, political beliefs or religious affiliations.

History
Since 1993, Christians from the Transylvanian Reformed Church have evangelized amongst alcoholics. In 1996 Bonus Pastor Foundation was officially established.

Current Outreach
To date, BPF reached out to over 700 alcoholics and their families through treatment camps. Many have been converted and overcome their addiction with thanks to God's grace. Twelve BPF Bible study/support groups are held weekly or biweekly across Transylvania for recovered and recovering alcoholics. Prevention work, regular children activities and summer camps, follow up camps, mail-outs, personal visits and regional conferences are other programmes.

Planned Programmes
BPF plans to set up a long-time rehabilitation programme. The aim is to provide help for people recovering from addiction to adapt themselves to the everyday life and find their role in the society. To achieve this, BPF envisions a three to six-month period in which the patient lives in a community with other recovering people and helpers, and is given meaningful work to do.

Together with CE Union, BPF works out the plans of a missionary training institute.

Castle of Ozd
There is a real need to base the planned future work at a suitable centre. God has provided a wonderful opportunity. BPF gained the ownership of an eight-hectare property in Ozd, a small village in central Transylvania.

This site includes a small renaissance castle, granary, stables, barn and shed. The ideally situated Castle needs urgent repairs and renovation before it could be used. The granary serves as a Christian rehabilitation centre and site for camps after being renovated. Renovation work started in autumn 2003. Similarly the stables on the property have been renovated and serve as a dairy farm project - providing both income for the Ozd site as well as providing work therapy and training for the people in rehabilitation. The castle itself will be used as a conference centre, not only for BPF work, but possibly for the missionary training institute and also to hire out. This will also provide income to make BPF activities self-sufficient.