Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship

The Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship (HEF=Magyarországi Evangéliumi Testvérközösség – MET) is a Christian church of the Methodist confession.

It considers its duty to encourage the poor, needy, disabled and weak in society, and help the endangered to the best of its abilities.

[2] In the 1970s members of HEF, due to internal tension created by the dictatorial powers of the communist Hungarian government and its state security forces, and because the church leaders of the MME were collaborating with the party-state elements, were forced to take their ministerial activities to a new community, and so exposed themselves to police and administrative harassment: dislodgement, church premises taken away, suspended imprisonment sentences, etc.

However, the State Office for Church Affairs (Állami Egyházügyi Hivatal) refused to let them use that name, since there was already a Methodist denomination in Hungary.

So the initials of the name they chose, Magyarországi Evangéliumi Testvérközösség, form the first three letters of the word Methodist.