AMAA News - May/Jun 2008


The 78th Synode of the Armenian Evangelical Union of France (8-10 May 2008) at the Armenian Evangelical Church of Issy Les Moulineaux which celebrated its 80th Anniversary this year.

New, Easier Commenting System!

After much await for the new commenting system, I am happy to announce to our readers the launching of the brand new and simple commenting feature.

There's no more need to write special characters, that sometimes would give you a headache and will be non-readable.

We will try this new system and hopefully this will be a feature to remain...

Here's a snapshot of the commenting box. You only need to write your comment and then select a profile. The fastest and simplest one is Name/URL. A box will show up in which you can fill you name and you can also leave the URL empty. And voila! That's it!

Take your family and friends to KCHAG!

Kchag Cafe kick-started this year already, with their new committee working hard to make Kchag the place for all to come together and enjoy their summer time.

Every Sunday, starting from 6:00 pm, the Kchag Cafe is open for all!

The new committee has come up with a plan to build a new canteen, and they've achieved it. More will be written about it in the coming posts.

Everyone: youngsters, elders, families, singles, chanitz, badaniatz, ladies and friends are invited to go up to kchag, where you will have a time of relaxation, fellowship, at the same time enjoying the cool weather and breeze during the night.

There will be food served and music played. There will also be special program that will be announced as planned.

Oh, and ping-pong fans, don't forget to come prepared :)

Below are some pictures from Kchag in different occasions.



Soccer lovers in Chanitz room following the EuroCup games passionately

Chanitz-agan soccer lovers and followers gathered together in Chanitz room and watched the games very passionately. The supporters of German and Italian teams were not very few among the chanitz-agans.

The pictures below were taken from one of the matches of Germany and one of the matches of Italy. The pictures describe their passion, and some were even showing their music skills too :)

Rev. Hovannes Svajian (church pastor) and Mr. John Sagherian (YFC Director) were almost consistently watching the games with the youth.












Summer Vacation for Chanitz.com

Blogging and administering the regular release of the newsletter of Chanitz.com has been fun, exciting, and rewarding at the same time. We’ve had specific purposes for this blog, many of which we were able to achieve, through the joint efforts of many supporters.

We would like to thank our sponsors, whom we consider our partners in ministry. We consider them our partners because most of them saw the need, saw the vision and shared it with us, and supported us morally and financially.

Here, I would like to tell you the story of one of our partners, who cheered our efforts but who also exhorted us to prepare ourselves well for what's coming.
I praphrase: "You will be faced with various obstacles and tough decisions. But don’t forget that the One who gave you this vision will not depart you. There will come many who will put different motives into your actions and initiatives, but stay firm in God's direction."

Losing our focus, we did not. And as we worked more and put further effort into this project, namely, Chanitz.com, we saw the need for more regular time and effort needed in order to keep it up and running. The more we gave ourselves up for this ministry, the more it soaked up our energies like a sponge, and the faster the website grew and matured.

As months went by, we came to realize that Chanitz.com has the potential to become a bigger project and to grow more. And seeing this potential, we know that this can be achieved only through the joint efforts of dedicated people.

Now, it's Summer time, and we are all tired and in dire need of vacation, the reason why I will announce here that Chanitz.com will take a break starting from the month of July till August and perhaps September, only to return to you with renewed efforts, new news, new ideas, new pictures, new articles, new games and surprises.

Enjoy your Summer and the Camps,
and enjoy your time with God :)


Cheers!
Chanitz.com, admin
Raffi

Armenian Evangelical P. & E. Torosian’s Elementary and Intermediate Graduation

Our Lord’s love is so great. He led us all throughout this year until we reached its end with our graduating students. Saturday 21st of June 2008 was the end, the happy ending. It was the graduation of 13 grade 9 students who are preparing themselves to go a new school with new teachers, new administration, but we know that Torosian has prepared them well. Also 21 grade 6 students graduated and turned a new page in their academic life preparing to go to grade 7.
The commencement started with the entrance of the graduates, the national anthems, rev. Hovhanness Sevadjian’s prayer, the guest speaker, Mrs. Seta Pamloukian directed her word to the graduates, the school choir enchanted the audience with 2 songs, and then the grade 9-ers took their part in the commencement. The diplomas and prizes were distributed followed by principle; Mrs. Seta Karageozian’s ending word, the Rev. Sevadjian’s prayer and the exit of the graduates.
In the outer yard the graduates were congratulated, a cake was cut in their honor, balloons were sent flying up and all were invited to a reception at the end of the “big day”.

Torosian