Iran: From Misery to Ministry

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 January 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert Hovsepian's father, Pastor Haik Hovsepian, was a church leader in Iran with an outreach to Muslims and a voice that wouldn't be silenced. He was threatened many times. Then he disappeared. For 12 days Gilbert and his family searched and worried. Gilbert says those 12 days were the hardest of his life. Then Haik's body was found, stabbed repeatedly. Listen to VOM Radio this week as Gilbert shares how his family responded, and how the prayers and care of the Body of Christ around the world encouraged and carried them. He'll also share how God has taken the misery of those days and used it to shape a ministry that still reaches into Iran today, strengthening the church and leading Muslims into fellowship with Jesus.

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0:00.0	God has healed the wounds of course but the scars are still there.
0:12.6	We'll kill you right in the airport.
0:14.3	In Islam, there is no forgiveness.
0:16.1	It's all only revenge.
0:17.9	That's what God did, turned the misery into ministry.
0:22.3	Imagine one of your parents disappears.
0:25.0	You don't know where they are.
0:27.0	They're just gone.
0:29.0	That's what happened to Gilbert Hosepian,
0:32.0	whose father, Pastor Hike Hosepian, was the leader of the Assembly of God
0:36.4	Church in Iran. For 12 days, the family didn't know where Hike was, and then his body was found, bearing 28 stab wounds.
0:49.6	Even two decades later, Gilbert says, those 12 days were the hardest days of his life, but God
0:56.9	has turned those days of misery into a lifetime of ministry.
1:02.8	Gilbert will tell us how this week
1:05.6	on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network. Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact he told his disciples the world
1:21.3	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
1:24.6	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles and they're still coming true today
1:29.2	in the lives of his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories
1:35.4	and learn how we can help right now
1:37.5	on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome back to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. This is Todd
1:45.6	Nettleton in our studio here in Bartlesville. We have a very special guest
1:50.6	today. He is Gilbert Hovespian. He's a filmmaker. He's a
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