Jacob Pursley

Freedom and democracy is important.

And it's giving hope to a lot of Christians that this connection is now being made.

That's a great question.

So the Armenian Apostolic Church was founded in 301 AD.

So it's the largest state church, longest going state church in the world, which we have great respect for.

I mean, missionaries came to Armenia.

Actually, some of them had Persian ancestry.

And the oldest coming back from Jesus' disciples, Thaddeus and Bartholomew, came to Armenia.

So they are, they're our brothers and sisters, right?

I mean, as Protestants or Catholics, we have one Jesus, one Bible, one faith, one baptism.

And so I think what I've seen is I have great relationships within the Arminian Apostolic Church.

We've worked together on projects.

So I think if we're focusing on the majors, it's great.

And specifically, when you face persecution from other nations that are not

friendly to Christianity, it gives us another reason to come together as one body.

So I've been doing ministry in Syria since 2005, when the Qamishli massacre took place, when Bashar al-Assad's soldiers came up to massacre the Kurdish population.

This is before ISIS.

So I've been very involved in Syria.

hoping that the Kurds would not find their hope necessarily in a politician or an army, but in Jesus Christ.

I'm a missionary.