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Tertig, April- Issue IV - Year 2, 2008
Below, is the 4th issue of the newsletter of the Armenian Evangelical Cultural Association (Հայ Աւետարանական Մշակութային Միութիւն) of the First Armenian Evangelical Church, Beirut.
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Haigazian Herald April 2008 Issue
The Haigazian Herald - Students Magazine
You can read this issue, by clicking on the following link: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/HeraldVolXVIN2_Ap08.pdf
Principal of Haigazian University: Rev. Dr. Paul Haidostian
Website: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb
You can read this issue, by clicking on the following link: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/HeraldVolXVIN2_Ap08.pdf
Principal of Haigazian University: Rev. Dr. Paul Haidostian
Website: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb
Rev. Krikor AghabalOghlu, in FAPC, USA
An Armenian pastor whose ministry is based in the Republic of Turkey will speak at the oldest Armenian Church in the State of California.
Reverend Krikor Aghabaloghlu will keynote the Spring 2008 Dinner of the First Armenian Presbyterian Church Men’s Fellowship.
The dinner event, honoring the faith and sacrifices of the Armenian Martyrs of 1915, will take place on Tuesday evening, April 29, 2008, at the church campus, 430 South First Street at Huntington Boulevard in Fresno.
The evening will begin with ethnic appetizers at 6:30 p.m. and continue with a barbecue steak and chicken dinner at 7 p.m. The event is open to the public and reservations, at $10 per person, may be made by calling George Karkazian at (559) 434-9009.
The keynote speaker was born in 1957 in Arapkir, Turkey near the confluence of the Eastern and Western branches of the Euphrates Rivers. After receiving his early education in his native city and Malatya Province, Aghabaloghlu matriculated at the University of Istanbul, a state institution dating to A.D. 1453. He majored in the history of Turkey as an undergraduate and received a Bachelors of Education Degree in 1979.
Reverend Krikor Aghabaloghlu will keynote the Spring 2008 Dinner of the First Armenian Presbyterian Church Men’s Fellowship.
The dinner event, honoring the faith and sacrifices of the Armenian Martyrs of 1915, will take place on Tuesday evening, April 29, 2008, at the church campus, 430 South First Street at Huntington Boulevard in Fresno.
The evening will begin with ethnic appetizers at 6:30 p.m. and continue with a barbecue steak and chicken dinner at 7 p.m. The event is open to the public and reservations, at $10 per person, may be made by calling George Karkazian at (559) 434-9009.
The keynote speaker was born in 1957 in Arapkir, Turkey near the confluence of the Eastern and Western branches of the Euphrates Rivers. After receiving his early education in his native city and Malatya Province, Aghabaloghlu matriculated at the University of Istanbul, a state institution dating to A.D. 1453. He majored in the history of Turkey as an undergraduate and received a Bachelors of Education Degree in 1979.
NEVER AGAIN!
THE TURKISH GENOCIDE OF THE ARMENIANS
In gratitude to Mr. Mihran Jizmejian
Dear Mr. Jizmejian,
Thank you for your act of appreciation and encouragement. The EQUIP training program in Harissa was definitely a blessing to all of us who participated for the purpose of becoming mature leaders. Thank you for your book. It will surely benefit all of us who want to serve the Lord as leaders.
Anita Andonian
Dear Mr., Jizmejian,
It is very encouraging to see that there are people overseas who do care for our spiritual and leadership development.
It is very surprising and encouraging to me that not only have you followed up our news from our humble website (blog) but also you have decided to send us a gift that will encourage our development further and further.
Thank you for this wonderful gesture, it is good to be surrounded by proactive leaders in our large community.
Serop Ohanian and Jimmy Kozman-Ohanian
A great endeavor indeed Mr. Jizmejian.
I deeply appreciate your recent undertaking to strengthen the spiritual lives of the Armenian leaders of Lebanon.
Thank you in advance,
ManoChil
Dear Mr.Mihran Jizmejian,
It was nice to read your encouraging words! We are thankful...i want to thank you for the gift "your book", and I'm eager to read it! Blessings from the bottom of my heart.
Silva Chilingirian
Mr. Mihran Jizmejian
Thank you very much for following up our news here in the Middle East, and thank you very much for the generous gesture of giving out a copy of your book... i hope and pray that we and the ministry here would be blessed through your book and such gestures.
thanks again
Rev. Datev Basmajian (Damascus)
Dear Mr. Jizmejian,
It was a pleasure to read your encouraging words and for your gift which you are going to send.
Thank you and God bless you.
I am sure we would love reading the book and discussing it together .
God bless you
Shake` Geotcherian
Standing at the back (left to right): Anita, Silva, Raffi, Tom Atema, Jimmy, Serop, Rev. Datev.
Standing in the front (left to right): Mano, Shake
Thank you for your act of appreciation and encouragement. The EQUIP training program in Harissa was definitely a blessing to all of us who participated for the purpose of becoming mature leaders. Thank you for your book. It will surely benefit all of us who want to serve the Lord as leaders.
Anita Andonian
Dear Mr., Jizmejian,
It is very encouraging to see that there are people overseas who do care for our spiritual and leadership development.
It is very surprising and encouraging to me that not only have you followed up our news from our humble website (blog) but also you have decided to send us a gift that will encourage our development further and further.
Thank you for this wonderful gesture, it is good to be surrounded by proactive leaders in our large community.
Serop Ohanian and Jimmy Kozman-Ohanian
A great endeavor indeed Mr. Jizmejian.
I deeply appreciate your recent undertaking to strengthen the spiritual lives of the Armenian leaders of Lebanon.
Thank you in advance,
ManoChil
Dear Mr.Mihran Jizmejian,
It was nice to read your encouraging words! We are thankful...i want to thank you for the gift "your book", and I'm eager to read it! Blessings from the bottom of my heart.
Silva Chilingirian
Mr. Mihran Jizmejian
Thank you very much for following up our news here in the Middle East, and thank you very much for the generous gesture of giving out a copy of your book... i hope and pray that we and the ministry here would be blessed through your book and such gestures.
thanks again
Rev. Datev Basmajian (Damascus)
Dear Mr. Jizmejian,
It was a pleasure to read your encouraging words and for your gift which you are going to send.
Thank you and God bless you.
I am sure we would love reading the book and discussing it together .
God bless you
Shake` Geotcherian
Standing at the back (left to right): Anita, Silva, Raffi, Tom Atema, Jimmy, Serop, Rev. Datev.
Standing in the front (left to right): Mano, Shake
Widening our Tent
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Raffi
Or, you can forward them the newsletters.
Or, you can send us the email addresses, and we will send them the newsletters joyfully. Of course, the email addresses will not be used for spam or junk.
Raffi
From Scandinarvia, with love
It was very interesting to listen to Tom Hoglind sharing about his vivid experiences he has had throughout 4 decades with fellow Christian sects from one hand and fellow Muslims from the other.
Tom Hoglind, a young Swedish guy, had the vision of finding a country to make it his home. He had heard of the Middle Eastern countries where not many people had any idea of the Good News of Jesus Christ. When he first arrived in Lebanon in the year 1969 and saw the picturesque mountains, the magnificent climate and the hospitable people, he decided to make Lebanon his own home. He was adopted by the late Reverend Vahram Salibian and his wife as their second son after they lost their own son in a tragic accident.
Before the civil war erupted, he asked a young Armenian girl’s hand in marriage and Tom and Annie were married in the year 1974. He began to learn Armenian and Arabic through books and now speaks both languages better than me. He currently works for Bible Society in Lebanon and travels to all the Middle Eastern countries spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ, the savior of the whole of humanity.
The most striking and soul-enriching concept shared by Tom with the Armenian Evangelical Emmanuel Church senior youth team on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 was that people - both Muslims and Christians - want to know that our love for them is genuine and we're not there just to evangelize to them, but to build wonderful friendship with them. It is a great blessing for Tom to have friends from all walks of life - Sunni, Shiite, Druze, Maronite, Orthodox, and others. As it is written in the Bible, our faith is futile even if one can perform miracles, but has no love.
Tom’s information about Jehovah's Witnesses was quite intriguing. I always thought all were being paid to go from door to door to talk to people about their faith. I didn't know that some of them were once Christians who had left the church because of continuous tension and divisions among the believers.
However, tensions and lack of love towards fellow believers are a constant threat for the church. But it is at those very hard moments that one should “stick around” and try to work things out with fellow believers. Growing out of tensions, and not by leaving the church, makes the group of believers stronger and more mature in their faith.
Manochil
Tom Hoglind, a young Swedish guy, had the vision of finding a country to make it his home. He had heard of the Middle Eastern countries where not many people had any idea of the Good News of Jesus Christ. When he first arrived in Lebanon in the year 1969 and saw the picturesque mountains, the magnificent climate and the hospitable people, he decided to make Lebanon his own home. He was adopted by the late Reverend Vahram Salibian and his wife as their second son after they lost their own son in a tragic accident.
Before the civil war erupted, he asked a young Armenian girl’s hand in marriage and Tom and Annie were married in the year 1974. He began to learn Armenian and Arabic through books and now speaks both languages better than me. He currently works for Bible Society in Lebanon and travels to all the Middle Eastern countries spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ, the savior of the whole of humanity.
The most striking and soul-enriching concept shared by Tom with the Armenian Evangelical Emmanuel Church senior youth team on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 was that people - both Muslims and Christians - want to know that our love for them is genuine and we're not there just to evangelize to them, but to build wonderful friendship with them. It is a great blessing for Tom to have friends from all walks of life - Sunni, Shiite, Druze, Maronite, Orthodox, and others. As it is written in the Bible, our faith is futile even if one can perform miracles, but has no love.
Tom’s information about Jehovah's Witnesses was quite intriguing. I always thought all were being paid to go from door to door to talk to people about their faith. I didn't know that some of them were once Christians who had left the church because of continuous tension and divisions among the believers.
However, tensions and lack of love towards fellow believers are a constant threat for the church. But it is at those very hard moments that one should “stick around” and try to work things out with fellow believers. Growing out of tensions, and not by leaving the church, makes the group of believers stronger and more mature in their faith.
Manochil
Armenian Brotherhood Bible Church
How Armenians Are Viewed in Lebanon
Revisiting Artin in Beirut: How Armenians are viewed in Lebanon
By Arda Arsenian-Ekmekji
Taking a taxi from Haigazian University to my house in Qoraytem, Ras Beirut, the taxi driver suspiciously asked me "You are not Armenian? When I answered positively, he replied, "How come? You speak Arabic well and you are not heading towards Bourj Hammoud”, referring to that northern suburb of Beirut highly populated with Armenians. I believe the third unvoiced question which remained lurking in his mind was "You don't wear a distinct basterma fragrance.”
If you'd like to read it full click on the following link: http://static.scribd.com/docs/c6l4o7k6p07gj.swf?INITIAL_VIEW=width
By Arda Arsenian-Ekmekji
Taking a taxi from Haigazian University to my house in Qoraytem, Ras Beirut, the taxi driver suspiciously asked me "You are not Armenian? When I answered positively, he replied, "How come? You speak Arabic well and you are not heading towards Bourj Hammoud”, referring to that northern suburb of Beirut highly populated with Armenians. I believe the third unvoiced question which remained lurking in his mind was "You don't wear a distinct basterma fragrance.”
If you'd like to read it full click on the following link: http://static.scribd.com/docs/c6l4o7k6p07gj.swf?INITIAL_VIEW=width