EASTER PROGRAMS

We just completed our Easter programs throughout Armenia and Karabagh.

Thousands of children and their parents participated in AMAA organized Easter programs, held in over 30 locations, where the powerful message of the resurrection was "preached" through drams, music and poetry.

AMAA organized special Easter visitations to the homes of elderly people living alone, and to needy families. Small groups of Sunday school children, accompanied by their teachers visited four hundred such homes to sing, pray and encourage with the resurrection message. In addition, the families were given gifts of food items. This experience brought great joy to the families that were visited. The elderly, who were pleasantly surprised by the visit, were very grateful for this expression of love. Most important though, the Sunday School children were greatly encouraged by the fact that they were able to channel God's love to these needy, suffering people and bring smiles to their otherwise sad faces.

APRIL 24 ­ GENOCIDE MEMORIAL DAY
On April 24 members of the Armenian Evangelical Churches (The Evangelical Church of Armenia, The Armenian Evangelical Baptist Church and The Pentecostal Church) together with the church leaders visited the Genocide memorial monument to pay their respect and to lay flowers to the memory of the one and a half million martyrs of the genocide of the 1915.

THE EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF ARMENIA
Esther Yeung (librarian at Fuller Theological Seminary) and David Holifield (librarian at Azusa Pacific University) visited Armenia for helping enhance the services of the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Armenia library. They shared some methods of systematizing the literature of the library, as well as introduced some modern techniques of using computers, specifically the Internet, for receiving information and literature.

The Theological Seminary also had guest lecturers, Rev. Grigor Haleblian, lecturing on "Church Growth" and Dr. Gerard Seigwalt, lecturing on "The Holy Spirit".

VISITORS FROM ABROAD
Some members of the Armenian Evangelical Church of France visited Armenia under the leadership of Rev. Gilbert Leonian. This was a great opportunity for them to get acquainted with the work and projects of the AMAA and of Hope For Armenia of France. These type of visits enable people from outside of Armenia to see everything with their own eyes, to get a closer feel of it all and to support the work.

AMAA President, Mr. Andy Torigian and AMAA Executive Director, Rev. Jirair Sogomian and his wife Lorraine visited Armenia for a one-week period, starting April 30, 2001.

PRAYER REQUESTS
We covet your prayers for the following:

- Please pray that the resurrection of Easter would be a great victory for the Armenian nation, as we celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as state religion in Armenia

- Pray for all the children and teenagers, who heard the Easter message during the different celebrations in Sunday schools

- Pray for a spirit of understanding to be present between Armenia and all its neighboring countries

- Pray for the students and lecturers of the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Armenia