Espoir pour L’Arménie (Hope For Armenia)



President: Serge Kurkdjian
Vice-President: Pastor Gilbert Léonian
Secretary: Annie-Claire Vahanian
Assistant Secretary: Ari Topouzkhanian
Treasurer: Boros Haladjian
Advisor: Pastor Joel Mikaelian

Founded in 1989, following the terrible earthquake that struck the Spitak region, it is one of the few non-governmental organizations represented there, and enjoys a reputation for thoroughness and skill that opens many doors.

Hope for Armenia already has to his credit several major successes in the first emergency required by the humanitarian situation, and in the perspective of autonomous economic development.

Some achievements
* Provision of two mobile clinics and medical facilities in Yerevan Gyumri.
* Installation of a dental hospital Erebuni in collaboration with UMAF (Medical Union of Armenians of France) and "Aznavour for Armenia".
* Provision of two ovens for the construction of two industrial bakeries.
* Sponsorship of orphans 1,700 children each month who receive significant aid. (depuis 1992) (since 1992)
* Acquisition and shipment of 100 stoves and fuel during the winter of 1993-94 and repeated in 1994-95.
* Creation of craft workshops, units simple and productive, that achieve results quickly and create jobs, including in disaster areas.
* Poultry Farm at Vanatzor in partnership with the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur.
* Construction of the Franco-Armenian Spitak in collaboration with the Fund for Armenian France

Hope for Armenia has a team of twenty permanent employees recruited locally who inspire intense social activity through direct visits to families in difficulty.

The assessment of needs on the ground, the controlled distribution of aid and material support, the follow-up to all actions launched from the France, have enabled the association to acquire a great experience that reinforces its reputation every day and contributes to a better efficiency.

Hope for Armenia has on-site, in Yerevan, its own correspondent Pastor Rene Leonian, which provides management, compliance and quality of all actions initiated from the France of maintaining a permanent contact with the Armenian authorities . This presence enables effective intervention both in the short term emergency in the long term.

Hope for Armenia was also designed to meet the spiritual demands of a population from culturally weakened and trying to reconnect with its Christian roots. The dissemination of Christian literature, support for local churches, organizing camp activities and catechesis, are among the goals and emphasize the specificity of Hope for Armenia.

POUR TOI ARMENIE - Making off - FOR YOU ARMENIA (video)





This clip is a Making off of the song of Charles Aznavour and Georges Garvarentz «For you Armenia» , recorded in the urgency to help the disaster victims of the earthquake which has occurred in Armenia on December 7, 1988. Thank you to all the French artists to have taken part in this surge of generosity.
Jean Eckian

Interview with Rev. Krikor AghabalOghlu About His Encounter With Jesus Christ, the Armenian Evangelical Church and the Armenian Community in Turkey

  • How is the condition of the Armenian Community in Turkey in general and the Armenian Evangelical Church in specific?
  • At what age did you learn Armenian and why?
  • In what conditions and circumstances did you meet Jesus Christ? Can you tell us the very difficult situations that you went through?
  • What are the difficulties that the Armenian community faces in Turkey today?

Rev. Krikor answered and shared many other testimonies and God's work in Turkey, even among the Muslims who come to church to get blessings and to get help in getting the evil spirits out.

Track 14 - Interview with Rev. Krikor AghabalOghlu on the Armenian Evangelical Church in Turkey
Chanaghouyr

CHANAGHPOUYR Team

 

Alpha Course - Is there more to life than this?

The Armenian Evangelical Emmanuel Chanitz has taken up the internationally know Alpha Course. We are going to study this course as a youth group, all of us together in three groups.

Everyone is invited every Wednesday at 8:00 pm to come and participate in these studies.

We'll start with sandwiches and snacks, after which we will watch a video. Then distribute into the 3 groups and ask our questions about life and the meaning of life related to Christianity and the Bible.

Bring your friends with you :)





Dr. Ari Topouzkhanian from France Will Be Giving Two Lectures



Organized by the Executive Body of the CE Union of Lebanon, Dr. Ari Topouzkhanian will be arriving from France and will be giving two important lectures with the following titles:

1) On Friday, 27, November, 2009 in the Armenian Evangelical Emmanuel Church >> «Հայ Աստուածաշունչի շահեկանութիւնը. պատմական ակնարկ եւ ներկայ օրերու հրամայականը» (The essence of the Armenian Bible: Historical reflections and the present day challenges)

2) On Tuesday, 1, December, 2009 in the Armenian Evangelical Church of Marash >> «Հաւատք եւ գիտութիւն՝ 21-րդ դարու հայ քրիստոնեայ երիտասարդին փնտռտուքը» (Faith and Science: The Christian Armenian youths’ search for identity)

The Last Kchag Café for the Summer of 2009

This year, the last Kchag Café was simply amazing. While the whole organizing team had planned the Armenian event outside, under the sun, the weather surprised everyone and it rained, and we found ourselves running for cover and shelter. Fortunately, the church building of Kchag was very close. In ten minutes, the place was prepared to contain around 100 participants.

Mrs. Yester Kilaghbian, the yeretzgin of the Armenian Evangelical Church in Ashrafieh, presented about the Ladies Camp in Kessab, Syria, with Rev. Krikor AghabalOghlu as the speaker from Turkey.
Then, Ms. Nanor performed several Armenian songs.
We had a guest from the Danish-Armenian Mission from Denmark, Mr. Mikkel Bandak, who also shared about the mission's history and the relationship of the Danish people with the Armenians, and how it all started during 1915 and after the Genocide.

All in all, we've never had a Kchag Café like this before. It surely is a year to be remembered.




















EQUIP LEadership Training, Volume II, Notebook 3 - THINKING FOR A CHANGE

EQUIP (founded by John Maxwell) did it again, this year!
The participants came from Syria and Jordan to Lebanon, to Harissa, where the sessions took place on October 2 and 3.
Rev. Camille Melki, is the coordinator of the event and his team had the event well organized. Mr. Tom Atema, the speaker presented most of the lessons, and assisting him was Rev. Khalil, from Jordan, who presented some of the lessons.

The title of the Chapters were:
1- Change Your Thinking and Change Your Life
2- Focused Thinking and Creative Thinking
3- Realistic Thinking and Strategic Thinking
4- Possibility Thinking and Reflective Thinking
5- Popular Thinking and Shared Thinking
6- Unselfish Thinking and Bottom-Line Thinking

Participating from Lebanon were:
Ms. Shake Geocherian (Emmanuel Church),
Mr. Serop Ohanian (Emmanuel Church),
Mrs. Jimmy Kozman-Ohanian (Emmanuel Church),
Mr. Mano Chilingirian (Emmanuel Church),
Mr. Raffi Chilingirian (Emmanuel Church),
Ms. Silva Chilingirian (Marash Church)
Rev. Hagop Sarkissian (First Church).

Participating from Syria were:
Pastor Datev Basmajian (Damascus Church),
Mrs. Sirag Karagoezian-Basmajian (Damascus Church),
Pastor Sevag Trashian (Kessab Church).










* Some of the pictures are the courtesy of Mrs. Sirag Karagoezian-Basmajian

The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren's Bestselling Book


Rick Warren's bestselling book, THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE.

Price: 15,000 LBP (10 USD)

Reviews:
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The Purpose Driven Life is an OUTSTANDING book that will impact your life. This is truly a must read."

"With so much confusion and even hate in the world. With so few people knowing what to do or where to go and considering that I am writing this on the Eve of the Resurection of Jesus Christ, I cannot think of a better, more appropiate time than right now to read and apply the concepts in this book."

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