Welcome, dear brothers and sisters!

Really, our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom we have it all, is good! Praise Him for His mercy and grace that we undeservedly get every second of our lives.

By the grace of Lord our ministry in Armenia continues and develops as well. Thank God in our churches, regular worship continues, the Lord brings new people. Parents of one of our sisters have begun to visit “Ararat” church recently. They strongly resisted their daughter to go to church and they never accepted us. But the Lord has miraculously touched them, and now it has been 3 month they regularly attend worship together. We do not know, what will happen next, but we thank God for his mercy and patience and savings sinners.

In March, on the basis of our church two sessions at the “School of preachers” took place. “Old Testament” session conducted Alex Prokopenko and “To Gal” session conducted Michael Ait-Sura. Also between the sessions in our church was Pastors Conference on the theme “Gospel in Old Testament.” The conference attended about 70 pastors and ministers from Armenia.

 

Artak, except children’s ministry “Sis”, is closely involved in pastoral work of the Kaghtsrashen Church. During this time, there are already tangible changes. Besides the new people, youth has started attending church and they already want to start youth meetings. We can say thet the Church hassay awaken from the hibernation.

In March, our sister Narco from Kaghtsrashen got married. Her husband is from Novorossiysk. In the beginning of April Narco moved to Novorossiysk, and we miss her very much. But they were joined by God and we are just happy for them.

In the new church, where mainly me and Edik are serving, God has so raised up the ministry, that now here are gathering more people than in “Ararat” (central church). We are thinking to move into a bigger hall after this summer.

This year in March the three-day conference was held in the new church. We had a very good time  to communicate and to get closer. Every morning and evening sounded biblical preaching on the theme “What is the Church.” The main speakers were Edward, Fyodor and me. On the last day Alex Prokopenko from Samara joined us, he came to Armenia in the framework of the program “To help the preacher.”

Now the church is going through the graceful time of “formation” and we understand that this time should be use dproperly, so we do not stop praying and asking Lord for wisdom and strength.

This year, we have particularly celebrated the holiday of Resurrection of our Lord. All churches gathered together andrented a large hall for worship. At the service were many guests and unbelievers.

Now we are industriously preparing for summer activities (camps, hiking). If the Lord wills, we are planning Baptism in the beginning of July. This year we have many baptized (about 30 people), mostly they are believers from our new church.

 

On January, 25-th by the grace of God out fifth child was born, he was named Daniel.

Despite the financial difficulties and the fact that we, as citizens of another country, had to pay for everything (large amount of money for us), the Lord blessed us with a healthy and happy child. This Easter we brought Daniel to church for prayer of blessing.

Our family is praying for a trip to Ukraine (this summer) to register our son Daniel. However, due to the situation in Ukraine, we can not decide what to do with the trip. Friends, please, remember this need in your prayers, that the Lord would give us wisdom to make the right decision.

Dear brothers and sisters, we thank you for your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Great Commission.

We thank you for going with us through these years and for doing one thing together – the matter of our Lord. Thank you all who is praying and contributing to the ministry in Armenia.

We want to encourage you, friends, – your contribution is a contribution to the everlasting kingdom … and our Lord will fill all your needs according to His riches (Philippians 4:19).

We ask you to continue encouraging and praying for us and those to whom we are bringing the Gospel.

Prayer needs:

– For summer activities;

– For the baptized;

– For our family summer trip to Ukraine;

– For my health.

With love and prayers, Arthur Marandyan