Global Gourmet Buffet
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2011 at 6:00 pm | Fellowship Hall
Guest Speaker: David Yeghnazar
We are privileged to hear from David Yeghnazar, the US Director of ELAM Ministries. David will be updating us on those being persecuted, and how God is Building His Church in Iran. A buffet of foods from around the world will be served.
This is a
free event, but tickets are required for food count. A freewill offering will be taken at the dinner.
David Yeghnazar was born in Iran in 1974 into a family parented by Christian ministers. When he was three years old, as part of the Lord’s work, his family moved to Lebanon where they lived for six years during a time of civil war. While there, David experienced the Lord’s faithfulness and protection in a way that impacts him to this day.
As a child, David gave his life to the Lord in 1983 – just before his family moved to the United Kingdom.
Hailing from the Middle East, David has a deep understanding of the region, and has a great passion and burden is to see the Gospel reach the over 1 billion Muslims in the world. After graduating from the City University in London where he studied Management Science, David spent one year with the UK based Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) training Christian students to reach out to the Muslim community. Subsequently, David worked for a London law firm for two years.
In 1998 David joined Elam Ministries, a leading Christian mission to the Iran region. His addition to the leadership team has been invaluable in increasing the scope and effectiveness of the entire ministry. Elam specialises in training Christians from the Iran region for ministry; producing and distributing key Christian resources in the region; and taking the Gospel to the people in the region through various mission and relief efforts. Elam has played a significant role in the recent unprecedented growth of the Iranian church.
In 2004 David moved to the United States where he now serve’s as Elam’s US Director based in Atlanta, GA where he resides with his wife, Louise and their four children, Grace, Theo, Hope and Beata.
ELAM Ministries was our Reach Global half of the Thanksgiving offering for November 2010. The offering went to purchase Persian New Testaments to be distributed in Iran.
During Christmas week 2010, the Iranian government arrested 70 Christians. Thirty are still incarcerated, including the young pastor who has planted over 50 house churches, which were distributing more than 5,000 New Testaments a week. Over 500,000 have been given out to Iranians over the last year. Pray for the release of our persecuted brothers and sisters.