Tip of the Arrow

Coming here it was prophesied over us on two different occasions that Armenia would be like the tip of the arrow. Our outreach started broad in ministry and this will really pin point a lot. And also, YWAM Budapest has never sent a team to Armenia so we are kinda paving the way. Hal, our director back in Budapest really has a heart for Iran and wants to get involved with the Iranian people. His hope for us coming here was that we would get in contact with some Iranian refugees - and that we have.

My conception of “refugee” has always been of poor people displaced in a foreign country for reasons unknown to them. But I have been very wrong in this idea. A refugee is just someone living in a country outside of the one in which they belong - so I guess I am a refugee. We hooked up with a small Persian church (Iranian) and are trying to get in good relationship with them. They only have about 15 members and the majority of them have been Christians for only a few years. It is so interesting to start to understand their culture more, to hear them sing the same songs we sing but with a twang in their music that we could not duplicate if we tried. We invited a group of them to our house and had fellowship time with them, that was cool. Sure nice to have a place where we could have someone as our guests, for once to not be the guests.

I love finding more out about the Iranian culture, they are not all Muslim’s, they are nothing like the pre-conceived ideas that America has placed upon them. They are a people, many of whom are in love with God. They are persecuted for their faith daily by their neighbors, family and nation, yet they choose still to worship God whole heartedly. I think we have a lot to learn from their example. And I hope I do.