Persian Language Worship Services
Carroll Wynne posted a few days ago about this new ministry in our city. Here is more information from Len Stewart, Assistant Pastor at Proclamation Presbyterian in Bryn Mawr. We have some flyers in the Delancey lobby about the services.
A couple of years ago in God’s Providence, my wife Julie and I stumbled into a small Kabob restaurant on Chestnut Street, to discover that the owners were Iranians who were happy to meet a Persian speaking American and quite interested in spiritual questions. Helen and her Mother Fatima became our very good friends as they studied the Bible with Len and eventually made professions of faith. Their first contact with PPC was when they catered our Mission Conference dinner and sensed the warm welcome and joy of Christian fellowship. How can we forget the glorious day they were baptized here at our church? Since then Pastor Stewart has had a weekly Bible study at the restaurant and had conversations with many Iranians who have heard the Gospel. God has used Fatima and Helen to give Bibles to many Persian speakers, and we know of those who have subsequently come to Christ. Most Iranians know English, but some do not, and none of these converts have been to a service where there is worship, singing, and preaching in their mother tongue.
On Sunday, September 3rd we will hold our first Persian language worship service at the Aromatic House of Kabobs at Chestnut Street at 10:00 a.m. God has provided our worship leader and primary preacher: Mansour Khajehpour, a Ruling Elder from the Evangelical Church of Teheran, (a church started by Presbyterians in the 1800’s). Mansour has experience in Persian Church planting in Washington State and is now in seminary. He and his wife Nahid have two children and are U.S. citizens, having come here as spiritual refugees a few years ago. We are keenly aware that God has brought us together for this new start of a Persian language witness.
Praise God we have the privilege to reach into the mission field right here at our doorstep. Please be in constant prayer for all involved.
A couple of years ago in God’s Providence, my wife Julie and I stumbled into a small Kabob restaurant on Chestnut Street, to discover that the owners were Iranians who were happy to meet a Persian speaking American and quite interested in spiritual questions. Helen and her Mother Fatima became our very good friends as they studied the Bible with Len and eventually made professions of faith. Their first contact with PPC was when they catered our Mission Conference dinner and sensed the warm welcome and joy of Christian fellowship. How can we forget the glorious day they were baptized here at our church? Since then Pastor Stewart has had a weekly Bible study at the restaurant and had conversations with many Iranians who have heard the Gospel. God has used Fatima and Helen to give Bibles to many Persian speakers, and we know of those who have subsequently come to Christ. Most Iranians know English, but some do not, and none of these converts have been to a service where there is worship, singing, and preaching in their mother tongue.
On Sunday, September 3rd we will hold our first Persian language worship service at the Aromatic House of Kabobs at Chestnut Street at 10:00 a.m. God has provided our worship leader and primary preacher: Mansour Khajehpour, a Ruling Elder from the Evangelical Church of Teheran, (a church started by Presbyterians in the 1800’s). Mansour has experience in Persian Church planting in Washington State and is now in seminary. He and his wife Nahid have two children and are U.S. citizens, having come here as spiritual refugees a few years ago. We are keenly aware that God has brought us together for this new start of a Persian language witness.
Praise God we have the privilege to reach into the mission field right here at our doorstep. Please be in constant prayer for all involved.
posted by Christiana at 8/24/2006 11:52:00 AM
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