There is much to pray for the Pursely’s Ararat Gateway ministry, both in thanksgiving but also in intense intercession. Here are some recent highlights from this summer:
Successful meeting of Love Camp, a bi-annual gathering of children with disabilities. Both Lisa and Jacob are involved in planning, teaching, and ministering at the camp.
Monthly meeting of the Ararat Missions School, not only for encouragement and ministry, but to send teams out to nearby areas for Bible distribution, sharing of testimonies, meeting with local missionaries, and establishing new relationships.
Successful meeting of the Agarak Camp hosted by the Hope Language Center. The staff of Hope Language Center along with 23 volunteers hosted 100 children to teach English, build connections to local government, and bring hope through new relationships.
Assisting a local family to establish a small chicken business for a self-sustaining source of income.
Continued steps toward establishing a University in Yerevan called the “Armenian Theological Academy.” The goal is to offer four-year courses of study in Pastoral Studies, Biblical Counseling, and Missions to the Muslim World.
Exploration of a new church plant in Yerevan.
In addition, here are two areas for fervent prayer:
Jacob has been involved with the start of a church plant in area that has not had a church for over 100 years. The vision to plant this church has seemed almost miraculous in the way it developed, but the first couple to begin the work there met with extreme resistance from local authorities that included physical torture. Pray for God’s power and protection to be at work for this couple and for the ministry.
The attack of Azerbaijan on Armenia on Sept 13-15 has wrought destruction as well as killing and unspeakable atrocities on Armenians, some of them connected to the Ararat Gateways ministry. Jacob reports on the horrors of the most intense spiritual and physical warfare and his trust that God’s work will be accomplished.
There is opportunity to support their ministry financially:
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