The following report is from Rev. Fred Hartley, III, President of College of Prayer.
I and my team had significant ministry in Armenia, serving several churches in the capital city of Yerevan. The people were hungry for God, highly responsive, and ready for the College of Prayer training. We found Armenia to be a land of God's favor. Let me give a little background to this little known nation.
Armenia is a land of God's favor because the Gospel of Christ came to their land as early as the first century. History records that two of Jesus' apostles, Thaddeus and Bartholomew, traveled to Armenia to make disciples and plant churches before they were both martyred.
Armenia is a land of God's favor because it was the first Christian nation on earth. In 301 AD, Gregory, a Persian (Iranian) missionary, came to Armenia and had a significant impact, leading many to faith in Christ. The king resented the people's enthusiastic response to Gregory's message, persecuted him, and eventually threw him in a pit thinking he would die there. However, Gregory was miraculously sustained, thanks to an unknown woman who daily threw a piece of bread into his pit. When the king later grew deathly sick, the king's sister had a recurrent dream that, against all odds, Gregory was still alive. She told the king that if he would ask Gregory's forgiveness, Gregory would pray for his healing, and God would restore life to the king. Against his better judgment, when the king humbled himself and went to the pit, he found that Gregory was, in fact, miraculously alive. Gregory forgave the king for the years of persecution, and prayed for his recovery. God mercifully healed the king and he declared Armenia a Christian nation—the first fully Christian nation on earth.
Armenia is a land of God's favor because their nation is still thriving although they were the victim of the first, and one of the worst, genocides in the twentieth century. In the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire in Turkey initiated the genocide of the Armenian people, capturing the Armenian-owned land of Mount Ararat. They proceeded to mercilessly kill 1.5 million Armenian people.
Armenia is a land of God's favor because Armenia remains the only Christian nation full of peaceful people, surrounded on every side by adversity, with Iran on the south, Russia and Azerbaijan to the northeast, and Turkey on the east. It is an honor for the College of Prayer to serve the church in Armenia, a land of God's favor. Thank you for your prayer and financial support that makes possible our extended partnership with the church in Armenia.
I and my team had significant ministry in Armenia, serving several churches in the capital city of Yerevan. The people were hungry for God, highly responsive, and ready for the College of Prayer training. We found Armenia to be a land of God's favor. Let me give a little background to this little known nation.
Armenia is a land of God's favor because the Gospel of Christ came to their land as early as the first century. History records that two of Jesus' apostles, Thaddeus and Bartholomew, traveled to Armenia to make disciples and plant churches before they were both martyred.
Armenia is a land of God's favor because it was the first Christian nation on earth. In 301 AD, Gregory, a Persian (Iranian) missionary, came to Armenia and had a significant impact, leading many to faith in Christ. The king resented the people's enthusiastic response to Gregory's message, persecuted him, and eventually threw him in a pit thinking he would die there. However, Gregory was miraculously sustained, thanks to an unknown woman who daily threw a piece of bread into his pit. When the king later grew deathly sick, the king's sister had a recurrent dream that, against all odds, Gregory was still alive. She told the king that if he would ask Gregory's forgiveness, Gregory would pray for his healing, and God would restore life to the king. Against his better judgment, when the king humbled himself and went to the pit, he found that Gregory was, in fact, miraculously alive. Gregory forgave the king for the years of persecution, and prayed for his recovery. God mercifully healed the king and he declared Armenia a Christian nation—the first fully Christian nation on earth.
Armenia is a land of God's favor because their nation is still thriving although they were the victim of the first, and one of the worst, genocides in the twentieth century. In the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire in Turkey initiated the genocide of the Armenian people, capturing the Armenian-owned land of Mount Ararat. They proceeded to mercilessly kill 1.5 million Armenian people.
Armenia is a land of God's favor because Armenia remains the only Christian nation full of peaceful people, surrounded on every side by adversity, with Iran on the south, Russia and Azerbaijan to the northeast, and Turkey on the east. It is an honor for the College of Prayer to serve the church in Armenia, a land of God's favor. Thank you for your prayer and financial support that makes possible our extended partnership with the church in Armenia.
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