Diaconia:
The Diaconia Department of the Synodal Office supervises 13 homes, 5 for old people, 6 for handicapped children, a house for retired church workers, and a pastors' resthouse. The Institute for Training Deacons has been functioning for a few years in order to provide recruits among church workers. After the change of regimes in 1989 9 further diaconia homes have been founded in the care of the congregations
.Social Mission:
This extends to large areas of everyday life. It has 12 branches (missions among alcoholics, drug addicts, young people thrown about in neglect, gypsies, prisoners, lepers, etc. and pastoral care through telephone).
Refugees:
Unfortunately, in consequence of the tensions in the area and the war in former Yugoslavia, Hungary has since 1988 become a reception state for refugees. Therefore the Reformed Church in Hungary also had to set up a new branch of service where refugees or displaced persons from beyond the frontier (especially from Transylvania) are received, helped and given medical treatment. The centre of this service is in Budapest, but, in consequence of the war in former Yugoslavia, stations for the reception of and relief for refugees have been established in the southern counties (Baranya, Somogy, Bács-Kiskun).