Today I met with Pastors George and Shamuel, the pastors of our Armenian and Assyrian outreaches respectively, to begin the process of planting full-fledged churches out of their groups. To say it was exciting would be a vast understatement. On Pentecost Sunday we expect to launch both churches. We have been working with Pastor Shamuel and the Assyrian group for five years now and Pastor George and the Armenian group for about a year and a half. Both have made significant inroads in their communities and we expect both to be come full-fledged, vibrant churches in their own rights eventually. I count it a singular honor to have been allowed by God to have a small part in helping them, by providing oversight and counsel, along with bookkeeping and insurance in these extended periods of planning and start-up. Both of them are from Iran and came to the US as religious refugees, as have most of their core groups. Stay tuned for more about these two soon-to-be churches as they seek to transform first their communities here in the US and, through them, the nation of Iran itself.

Pastor Ken