{"id":1286,"date":"2014-07-16T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T20:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.avahost.ws\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2019-03-22T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:42:09","slug":"about-missionary-work-in-armenia-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/about-missionary-work-in-armenia-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"About missionary work in Armenia 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome, dear brothers and sisters!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Really,\u00a0our Lord Jesus Christ,\u00a0in whom we have it all, is good! Praise Him for His mercy and grace that we\u00a0undeservedly\u00a0get every second of our lives.<\/p>\n

By the grace of Lord our ministry in Armenia continues\u00a0and develops as well.\u00a0Thank God\u00a0in our churches, regular worship continues, the Lord brings new people.\u00a0Parents of one of our sisters\u00a0have begun to visit\u00a0“Ararat” church\u00a0recently. They\u00a0strongly resisted their daughter to\u00a0go to church and\u00a0they never accepted us. But the Lord\u00a0has\u00a0miraculously touched them, and\u00a0now it has been 3 month they\u00a0regularly attend worship together.\u00a0We do not know, what will happen next, but\u00a0we\u00a0thank God\u00a0for his\u00a0mercy and patience and savings sinners.<\/p>\n

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In March, on the basis of our church two sessions\u00a0at\u00a0the “School of preachers\u201d took place.\u00a0“Old Testament”\u00a0session\u00a0conducted\u00a0Alex Prokopenko\u00a0and \u201cTo Gal\u201d\u00a0session\u00a0conducted Michael Ait-Sura. Also between\u00a0the\u00a0sessions\u00a0in\u00a0our church was Pastors Conference on\u00a0the theme\u00a0“Gospel in Old Testament.” The conference\u00a0attended\u00a0about 70 pastors and ministers from Armenia.<\/p>\n

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Artak,\u00a0except children’s ministry “Sis”, is\u00a0closely involved in pastoral work of the Kaghtsrashen\u00a0Church. During this time, there are already tangible changes. Besides the new people,\u00a0youth\u00a0has\u00a0started attending church and\u00a0they\u00a0already want to\u00a0start\u00a0youth meetings.\u00a0We can say thet the\u00a0Church\u00a0hassay awaken\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0hibernation.<\/p>\n

In March, our sister Narco\u00a0from\u00a0Kaghtsrashen\u00a0got\u00a0married. Her husband\u00a0is from\u00a0Novorossiysk. In\u00a0the beginning of\u00a0April Narco moved to Novorossiysk, and we\u00a0miss her very much. But they were\u00a0joined by\u00a0God and we are\u00a0just\u00a0happy for them.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0new church, where mainly\u00a0me and\u00a0Edik\u00a0are serving, God\u00a0has so\u00a0raised up the ministry,\u00a0that now\u00a0here are gathering\u00a0more people than in “Ararat” (central church).\u00a0We are\u00a0thinking to move into a bigger\u00a0hall\u00a0after\u00a0this\u00a0summer.<\/p>\n

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This year\u00a0in March the three-day conference\u00a0was held\u00a0in the new church. We had a very good time \u00a0to communicate and to get closer. Every morning and evening sounded biblical preaching on\u00a0the theme\u00a0“What is the Church.” The main speakers were Edward, Fyodor and\u00a0me. On the last day Alex Prokopenko from Samara joined\u00a0us,\u00a0he\u00a0came to Armenia in the framework of the program “To help the preacher.”<\/p>\n

Now the church is going through\u00a0the graceful\u00a0time of “formation” and we understand that\u00a0this\u00a0time\u00a0should be use dproperly, so\u00a0we\u00a0do not\u00a0stop\u00a0praying\u00a0and asking\u00a0Lord for wisdom and strength.<\/p>\n

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This year, we\u00a0have\u00a0particularly\u00a0celebrated\u00a0the\u00a0holiday\u00a0of Resurrection of our Lord.\u00a0All\u00a0churches\u00a0gathered\u00a0together andrented a large hall for worship. At the service were many guests and unbelievers.<\/p>\n

Now\u00a0we are industriously\u00a0preparing for summer activities (camps, hiking). If the Lord wills,\u00a0we are planning\u00a0Baptism\u00a0in the\u00a0beginning\u00a0of\u00a0July. This year\u00a0we have\u00a0many baptized (about 30 people), mostly\u00a0they\u00a0are believers\u00a0from\u00a0our new church.<\/p>\n

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On\u00a0January,\u00a025-th\u00a0by the grace of God\u00a0out\u00a0fifth child was born,\u00a0he was named\u00a0Daniel.<\/p>\n

Despite the financial difficulties and the fact that we, as citizens of another country, had\u00a0to pay for everything (large amount\u00a0of money\u00a0for us), the Lord blessed us with a healthy and happy child. This Easter we brought Daniel to church for prayer\u00a0of\u00a0blessing.<\/p>\n

Our family is praying for a trip to Ukraine (this summer) to register our\u00a0son\u00a0Daniel.\u00a0However,\u00a0due to the situation in Ukraine,\u00a0we\u00a0can not decide what to do with the trip. Friends, please,\u00a0remember this need in your prayers, that the Lord\u00a0would give us\u00a0wisdom to make the right decision.<\/p>\n

Dear brothers and sisters, we thank you for your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Great Commission.<\/p>\n

We thank you for going\u00a0with us through\u00a0these years\u00a0and for\u00a0doing\u00a0one thing\u00a0together\u00a0– the\u00a0matter\u00a0of our Lord. Thank you all who\u00a0is\u00a0praying\u00a0and\u00a0contributing\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0ministry\u00a0in Armenia.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0want to encourage\u00a0you,\u00a0friends,\u00a0–\u00a0your contribution\u00a0is\u00a0a contribution to the everlasting kingdom …\u00a0and our Lord will fill all your need<\/em>s\u00a0according to\u00a0His riches (Philippians 4:19).<\/em><\/p>\n

We ask you\u00a0to\u00a0continue encouraging\u00a0and praying\u00a0for us and those\u00a0to whom\u00a0we are bringing the\u00a0Gospel.<\/p>\n

Prayer needs:<\/p>\n

– For summer activities;<\/p>\n

– For the baptized;<\/p>\n

– For our family summer trip to Ukraine;<\/p>\n

– For my health.<\/p>\n

With love and prayers,\u00a0Arthur Marandyan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome, dear brothers and sisters! Really,\u00a0our Lord Jesus Christ,\u00a0in whom we have it all, is good! Praise Him for His mercy and grace that we\u00a0undeservedly\u00a0get…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1297\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hopetopeople.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}