Church in Brunswick Maine Where Children Were Tortured Shiloh Road
Luther Burbank, Calif. (BP)–Roubik Hoospianmer was tortured in his native Iran for his Religion faith, and his brother was murdered.
"God for His purposes chose to spare me," helium says. "I ne'er forget that."
Immediately 41, he is bivocational as a social actor for Iranian and Armenian language refugees, pastor of terzetto immigrant churches, television preacher with weekly programs in tercet languages, husband of Odet Hartoun and Padre of three children.
Hoospianmer's life of ministry started when he was 14; he started passing out Bibles to Muslims on the streets of Teheran. Inside hours he was arrested. That didn't stop him.
By the time he was 22 he had started his first church — it took four days of weekly, 200-nautical mile, round-trip visits. Not long after that church building start, he was remanded by his civilian employer to one-year mandatory service in the Iranian army, which kept him from the weekly trips.
Merely he was shoed out of the military after managing to debate the merits of Christianity with the local mullah (priest) in the presence of the entire Tehran army base.
His noncombatant employer, the telephone company, sent him to the head-on of the Iran/Republic of Iraq war to repair cables, but after work he would bike 10 miles each path at night to town, where he searched until he found Assyrian Christians.
"I started with them my original church," Hoospianmer said. During the seven years he and his married woman grew the church in the war geographical zone, they endured daily bombing, fitful supplies of water, and continual torment from the Secret Police.
Fifty people had been baptized and 10 known as out as ministers when Hoospianmer conventional a cry for assistance from his presently-to-be-martyred comrade, Haik Hovsepianhehr. His wife and two daughters already were along their right smart to Tehran when the Secret Constabulary arrived and hauled Hoospianmer off to solitary confinement broken only by overrefinement.
"One Nox I was full of bitterness against Islam and totally enemies," Hoospianmer said. "I couldn't forgive them for what they do to me. I tell to God, 'I don't want any more Muslims to come to know you.'"
That midnight a bodyguard came with a soft-voiced request.
"I tell him, 'I don't lack to tell you more or less Jesus.' 'You have to,' he tell me. 'You are pastor.' After four hour, he standard Jesus. I repented from my gall and the Lord saved me from it."
Hoospianmer had been in the administrative district put away for 28 days. The day after the guard's rebirth, two members of the Secret Patrol horde Hoospianmer through a blinding snowstorm and over a notch to a Tehran jail. Unrivalled became a Christian that night.
Eight more years of torture later, Hoospianmer was placed on probation, providing he reported every two weeks on all Christian church activities, and that he did not speak to Muslims about Jesus.
"He was harassed for three age and was well-marked for death because despite the rules, Muslims were converted after coming into contact with him.
"This is Islamic law," Hoospianmer said. "Converts die, especially if they are a pastor who brings others to Christian religion."
Subsequently attending the funeral of a Monotheism-born pastor who had been killed, and seeing the unperceptive widow and quatern infantile children, Hoospianmer arranged to give everything he had in central for refugee status in FRG for him and his family.
While at that place, he started three churches among Armenians and Iranians, but stirred to California because "The Creator showed me in California one million Iranians," Hoospianmer said. "Hither we sack comprise much useful."
Helium baptized 66 Iranians within his freshman ternion years, then was called to Centennial State to set out an Iranian-language church. He's been back in California for deuce-ac years.
"Since '98 to now I decide to serve the Southern Baptists," same Hoospianmer said, WHO previously had been breakaway of a appellative. "I met Southern Baptists in Colorado. I researched and see that IT is the right denomination and solid floor for starting churches."
Three things he liked about Southern Baptists, the pastor said: its balanced theological system that was neither extreme nor emotional; its global outreach that matched his vision; and its polity that allowed every church its independence.
In increase to protrusive churches for Iranians (1998), Armenians (1998) and Person Iranians (1999), Hoospianmer for sextet years has had a thriving, three-program ministry on public access television. Helium preaches in Armenian alphabet, Farsi and West Germanic.
At least 750 families have contacted him because of the telecasting ministry; many go to non-Southern Baptist churches because of the lack of Iranian or Armenian SBC churches.
But Hoospianmer has a plan to address that.
Persian Christian Church service in Glendale consists of 100 members, 98 of whom are refugees; he's baptized 26 in the last class. Armenian Christian Church in Glendale (they parcel the same building) consists of 25 Muslim converts. The newest congregation, Iranian Christian Church of Los Angeles, consists of nearly 50 Jewish and Muslim converts who subsist in the Westwood area. He has identified 26 budding leadership among the congregations; sextuplet are attending the Brea Campus of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
His plan is to identify leaders, train them, and send them knocked out to start new congregations.
Hoospianmer has other plan.
He envisions a training center where people called to work with Muslims can spend hexa months in ministry with him in Los Angeles. Daily infusion of the language and culture of the Near East would help acclimate missionaries so they are available to start work when they reach their overseas assignment area, he said.
"My desire is to be a missionary in the US Government for Southern Baptists to strive the Muslims," Hoospianmer said. "My elder chum died to reach Muslims. God has called me to live to reach them."
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Church in Brunswick Maine Where Children Were Tortured Shiloh Road
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