Appreciation Gathering

Tonight, an appreciation dinner took place in the kindergarten of Torosian school. All the volunteers of the Church were invited, mainly, the Sunday school teachers, the junior youth group leaders, the youth group leaders, the Band, the choir, the ladies group leaders, and members of the two Church boards.

Rev. Hovannes Svajian talked about serving and appreciated everyone's work within the Church, telling us that God will appreciate everyone in the end, and that we are stewards in His field.
After the pastor's prayer of thanks for the food, we ate, and later on, each group's head leader shared a small summary about their team ministry work.

Football Competition in Dar el-Awlad

Today, our football team went up to Dar el-Awlad in Mansourieh to participate in a football competition for adults. The participating teams were from different ages, and churches. Some of the churches that were participating were: the Alliance Church, a Baptist church, Ras Beirut Church, All Saints (website and blog), Dar el-Awlad, Arm. Evang. Ashrafieh, ...
Jay, Mano and Koko Ian with the kids of Dar el-Awlad Arm Evang Ashrafieh team
The event was organized mainly by Alister. From Dar el-Awlad we already knew Ian. The referees from our church were J. Baghboudarian, and J. Sagherian.
Alyster on the right while praying J. Baghboudarian Arm Evang Emmanuel team
The finalists were the Dar el-Awlad and Arm. Evang. Ashrafieh teams.
Emmanuel and Ashrafieh teams
The Armenian Evangelical Ashrafieh team won the cup.

Ian Visiting Emmanuel Chanitz

Name: Ian
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Age: 28
Occupation: Carpenter

Ian - who has a mixed British accent – always wanted to serve other communities outside the UK. So the British outreach program enrolled him on a 6-month program to work with the junior youth at Dar al Awlad, Mansourieh, Lebanon.
His 6-month visit is coming to an end, and he would very much like to come back again for a longer period of time.
Ian visited the Armenian Evangelical Emmanuel Church youth group on Friday and played football with the guys.
The photos were taken with the Christian Endeavor senior youth during a social outing to a cocktail restaurant.


M. Chilingirian

The Ups and Downs of the Blogging Path

It was only yesterday, on March 30, that the idea of having what resembles a newsletter that would combine and help us stay connected and informed, was a wild dream.
Out of a dream came out an idea, the idea tranformed into a vision, a vision formulated into a prospect, the prospect a project, then the project came to life!

We went through different stages, through mishaps and blogsome days. Today, we are a year old, and we're still learning to walk in this cyberworld, trying to learn by trial and error, sometimes falling, but having the vision in front of us, we try to stand up and walk again.

On May 2006, Kohar and Jano joined and the Blog Team was founded.

Initially, the blog was exclusively about Chanitz. Later, with time, we also started covering Church and School activities, in which the chanitzagans participated. We also posted about International news, as need be. And many other news and activities.

All these would not be doable if it wasn't for our Church's digital camera. We thank the Church leaders for providing us with one that is very handy and useful!

We want to tell our readers that we have new ideas that we are looking forward to implement. Stay on alert!

Football Competition!


The Emmanuel Chanitz Sports Committee has decided to participate in a football tournament that will take place in Dar el-Awlad Orphanage, on Saturday 31/March, from 1pm to 6pm. Our chanitzagans are getting ready and they are looking forward to participate with high spirits, good moral, and come back with good results.

Everyone is welcome to encourage our team(s).
Sports Committee

More Than a Visit…

It was a very nice for me to go and visit the elderly in KAHL. At first I hesitated either to go or not, because I personally don’t feel comfortable around older people but later I thought that there is something else behind it. The idea is that they need young people who are full of life to come and visit them, talk to them, encourage them and make them feel happy. Having that in mind, I changed my mind and I decided to go and I had a great time actually and I felt that they were glad that we visited them and for a short period of time they forgot that they are alone or nobody cares for them. Hope that we can do this kind of stuff more often J

A Special Valentine's Message

Today a special Valentine's messages comes from God, our father who is God of LOVE, different from the "worldly" LOVE...

  • Satan wants to steal our joy

  • Satan wants our faith to be unattractive

  • Satan wants us to doubt about God
  • Satan wants us to stand for nothing

  • Satan doesn't want us to care

  • Satan wants us indecisive

  • Satan does not want us to grow in Christ

  • Satan wants us unsure of our salvation

To set the Christian Alarm system against Satan's Attacks:

  • BE right with God for He knows all that is in your heart and mind

  • BE morally pure by not allowing any immoral thought to take control of your thought life
  • BE honest for God abhors hypocrites

  • BE awestruck, for God is Holy

  • BE avoiding for everything that is evil

  • BE responsible for all that God has given you

  • BE praying for yourself and others

  • BE ready for Satan's attacks
  • BE worshiping even you do not feel like it

  • BE believing anyway, no matter the circumstances

And Finally HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL CHANITSAGANS, Remember that God LOVES you for who you are, whatever you have done or doing =)