{"id":1272,"date":"2013-07-02T20:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.avahost.ws\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2019-03-22T20:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:22:27","slug":"about-missionary-work-in-armenia-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/about-missionary-work-in-armenia-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"About missionary work in Armenia 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings our dear brothers and sisters!<\/b><\/p>\n

We praise our Lord Jesus Christ for His grace and participation in the spread of the Gospel.<\/b><\/p>\n

We are grateful to all who support us and our ministry in\u00a0Armenia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Everything is developing in our churches by God\u2019s mercy.<\/p>\n

The Tuesday Bible study was renewed in Kahtsrashan.<\/p>\n

Brother Suren is working in Ararat. We pray to start a children\u2019s ministry there. Suren is also helping brother Erem in Armavir. We want to renew regular worship in Armavir. To do this, we have to repair the first floor of Erem\u2019s house and make a separate entrance to the worship space. Please pray about this need. We want to do all work till the end of the summer and start worship in September.<\/p>\n

The ministry with special blessing and strengths is developing in\u00a0Erevan\u2019s new church. We think about naming this church. We have a small competition regarding it. We have three options: \u201cMasis\u201d (this is part of Ararat \u2013 one of the mountains is named Masis), \u201cLife\u201d, and \u201cAgape\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Worship in new Erevan church<\/i><\/p>\n

I previously mentioned that on 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0of March we had our first Sunday worship meeting . Before that, we met on Saturdays. Until April 7th<\/sup>, we had our worship meetings in the building of the church \u201cArarat\u201d. However, God has blessed us with the new place in the city center. We are able to rent a 70-80 people meeting hall for free!!! It is just a miracle, no one believes us\u2026 We don\u2019t understand why this happened! We are just quietly, peacefully, and gratefully enjoying the grace which God has given us! Let Him be praised for that!<\/p>\n

Almost every Sunday, the Lord brings new people to the church. Every Thursday, we have small groups. In August, we will have the first baptism in the church by God\u2019s mercy.<\/p>\n

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Currently, we are praying for the Lord\u2019s blessing with funds for camping in Nagornij Karabah in September.<\/p>\n

In May, Fedja Gulinjan and I were invited in Samara to the pastors\u2019 conference. The main speaker was Alex Montoja. The topic of the conference was \u201cRun to receive.\u201d Pastor Alex is Mexican and is pasturing a Mexican community inCalifornia. He was bringing God\u2019s truths in a very practical way. God has touched my heart with the question. We are running and ministering to our Lord, but \u201cWhere are we running?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alex Montoja and Artur Maradjan<\/i><\/p>\n

In May, the college \u201cArarat\u201d had an academic session (it was the second one this semester). Students were studying Hermeneutics. We have decided to invite our good friend Vadim Jakim to teach. In 2005, Vadim was an intern through the program \u201cMissionary internship\u201d in\u00a0Armenia\u00a0for 2 months. He revisited in 2006 and left a good impression. Later he became teacher in\u00a0Odessa seminary. He gladly agreed to teach a Hermeneutics course. He made this complicated class easy to understand. During free time, he was preaching in our churches.<\/p>\n

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As a part of the program \u201cHelp to the preacher\u201d, a three-day conference for the pastors and ministers on the topic \u201cFaithful\u00a0church of\u00a0Christ\u201d took place in\u00a0Armenia. It was a very useful and encouraging time not only for our team but also for all participants. Many pastors were testifying after the conference that the biggest issue in Christianity is FAITHFULLNESS.<\/p>\n

During the early church times, the horrifying persecutions were determining the faithfulness; money and earthly standards of life do it today.<\/p>\n

This year, the children\u2019s\u2019 ministry \u201cSis\u201d is celebrating 5 years of its existence.<\/p>\n

This is what Artak Marandjan, the, person who is responsible for this ministry, is writing: \"\"\u201cWe are grateful to God for the ministry of \u201cSis\u201d in\u00a0Armenia. It is hard to regularly meet, organize camps, and do after-camp work in these hard times. It is also hard to find other ministers. During these 5 years, over 1000 children participated in our club and camps.\u00a0 Part of the children joined our church teen ministry. We also consider it very important to contact parents and share the Good News with them. We plan to spread \u201cSis\u201d ministry all over\u00a0Armenia. Please, pray about this ministry.<\/p>\n

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One more news bite: Natasha and I are expecting a fifth child. It was unexpected for us because we are in our early forties. However, we accept everything as from the Lord and rejoice regardless of any troubles. We believe that the Lord will provide and everything is under His control!<\/p>\n

With love and prayers from Armenia, Artur Marandjan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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