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and Savi or Jesus Chr i st t hr ough st r eami ng cont i nuous, upl i f t i ng, wor shi pf ul Ar meni an Chr i st i an musi c and scr i pt ur e 24/ 7. Our second mi ssi on i s t o hel p emer gi ng ar t i st s pr oduce cr eat i ve Ar meni an Chr i st i an pr ogr ams, musi c, and songs t hat wi l l gl or i f y t he One who shed Hi s bl ood so t hat we may have et er nal l i f e. In t hi s i ssue we f eat ur e:
Shushan Ghazar i an, who i s a young and emer gi ng Ar meni an Chr i st i an ar t i st . Bashde sponsor ed her new CD 12+1 wi t h many new and wonder f ul Ar meni an Chr i st i an songs and ar r angement s.
One of t hese songs Yel eer was wr i t t en and composed by Tamar Al bar i an. Tamar i s wel l known t o our Bashde audi ences and t hr oughout t he wor l d, wi t h many wonder f ul and or i gi nal composi t i ons especi al l y f or chi l dr en. We al so f eat ur e an ar t i cl e by Tamar on Yel eer and Tamar s new CD.
Gi l ber t Hovsepi an ( t he son of t he l at e Rev. Hai k Hovsepi an who was mar t yr ed i n Ir an and had composed Havadks chem mor ana ) , has a wonder f ul mi ni st r y bot h t o Ir ani ans and Ar meni ans. A wel l accompl i shed and known Ar meni an Chr i st i an Composer . We ar e al so pr i vi l eged t o f eat ur e an ar t i cl e by Gi l ber t .
Last , but def i ni t el y not l east , Rev. Gr eg Har out uni an, who i s a member of our boar d, shar es hi s i mpr essi ons on wor shi p made i n Ar meni a, f r om hi s l ast mi ssi onar y t r i p t her e. Gr eg met Shushan and ot her Ar meni an Chr i st i an ar t i st s who ar e f eat ur ed on Bashde. or g. Welcome to Volume 3
Bashde Newsletter November 2012 Volume 3 Bashde.org Listeners From All Around the World Bashde. or g st ar t ed i n 2007 and now we have l i st ener s f r om al l ar ound t he wor l d: f r om Nor t h Amer i ca t o Russi a; Fr om Ar meni a t o Aust r al i a; For m Eur ope t o Af r i ca; Fr om Chi a t o Indi a pr ai si ng t he Lor d t hr ough Bashde. or g .
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IlovetoworshipmyGod! There is only one thing that we do here on earth and will continue doing there, in heaven: its worshiping. What a great calling, what an unthinkable honor to stand before the throne of the One who has created the heavens and the earth and worship Him with the gifts granted us by Him. I thank God for teaching me how to worship from an early childhood. When I was only 7-8 years old, together with my siblings I would sing and worship God till midnight. Through this worship, golden verses turned into songs. This helped me learn about the God I worship, and love Him even more. Years later when I was a lead singer in our church worship team, God opened some doors for me to add knowledge to my worship experience. Through the Integrity Music and later Worship Central seminars I was able to praise God with more confidence and courage. Then my understanding on worship expanded due to the English books and videos. However, during these years I never even dared to dream of recording a CD of my singing. It was not in my plans. Well, it turned out that God had it in His plans. He likes to surprise His children. So He helped me - His little daughter - to make the songs that had spoken to my heart a sound for all His children to ear. My prayer is that this CD will be a blessing for everyone who hears it. Let every sound, every verse of these songs go deep into the hearts of those that hear it, and change their lives. I am so looking forward to the day when I will join with all Gods children and His heavenly hosts: to see Him face to face, kneel down before Him, and worship His glorious holiness. Until that day comes, I am going to sing the praises of my God and worship Him with everything He has given me. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long!
Shushan is a young Christian artist from Armenia blessed with many talents. One of Bashdes main objectives is to help promote new Armenian Christian talents. Bashde sponsored Shushans first CD. We are so encouraged we were able to help Shushan achieve this important milestone for His glory. She lives in Armenia, loves the Lord, and serves Him faithfully through uplifting worship songs. It contains many original songs as well as new arrangements of familiar songs. The CD was recorded in Armenia and also features other well- known Armenian Christian artists.
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Get Up! Yeleer
The song "yeleer" is one of the songs in the album 12+1. When my friend Shushan asked me to write a song for her upcoming CD, first thing I did was fast and pray. I prayed that God would give me a song by which he would be glorified and also would contain a strong message awakening His people.
After couple of weeks the song was ready. The Lord inspired me with the theme, the tune, and the words. While putting the song together, I felt strongly the Lord calling his people out of bondage, bringing them out of their captivity, and setting them free to spread the Gospel. The picture was very clear to me. In Acts 12:7, while apostle Peter was in prison, sleeping between two soldiers and bound in chains, an angel of the Lord appeared, and he struck Peter on the side and WOKE HIM UP saying QUICK GET UP! - "Yeleer!, and quickly the chains fell off Peters wrists.
In the same way, God is freeing us and calling us, His chosen ones, TO WAKE UP, GET UP and spread His word, proclaiming the good news of salvation in any which way we can., for there are many who are suffering, blind, hopeless and unaware of His truth.
I Thank the Lord for this song. I often hear Him saying to me "yeleer","yeleer" and don't look to your circumstances and comfort. "Yeleer," regardless. It has been my joy and privilege to serve Him in Song and worship.
Lord, wake us up from different kinds of sleep and pump us up by your supernatural power so we may be able to say: My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise his holy name forever and ever. Psalm 145:5.
Dear Setrag and Bashde committee, thank you for allowing us (Christian musicians, singers and composers) to get heard and advertised through Bashde.org. It's a great Christian service, bearing a holy vision which can give birth to many other ministries.
May Bashde enter every Armenian home, bringing peace and salvation to many.
God bless Bashde
Your sister in Christ Tamar Albarian
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Tamar serves the Lord with her husband Rev. Sam Albarian at the Armenian Evangelical Church of Toronto http://www.hayavedtoronto.com/
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Tamars Latest CD Kahit Mode It was t wo o cl ock i n t he mor ni ng; God woke me up wi t h a song. I qui ckl y j umped out of my bed and r ecor ded i t . As I sang t hi s song Sour p es Der , Hi anal ee es Der dur i ng my qui et t i me wor shi pi ng hi m, t he Lor d mi ni st er ed t o me and my r el at i onshi p wi t h Hi m gr ew. Thi s ver y speci al exper i ence dr ove me t o ask f or mor e i nt i macy. I had t ast ed hi m and hi s goodness, and woul d not set t l e f or l ess. Ever y now and t hen He woul d gi ve me ot her songs and I woul d si ng t hem t o hi m i n wor shi p.
One mor ni ng, as I was r eadi ng Psal m 96: 6 spl endor and maj est y ar e bef or e hi m, and st r engt h and gl or y ar e i n hi s sanct uar y, ascr i be t o t he Lor d Gl or y t o hi s name, I st ar t ed aski ng God t o r eveal hi msel f t o me, pl eadi ng wi t h hi m t o t ake me t o hi s t hr one so I woul d enj oy hi s spl endor and gl or y i n a mor e r eal way. I pr ayed t o hi m wi t h my whol e st r engt h and bei ng. My hear t was beat i ng, and I kept r epeat i ng t he phr ase Take me t o your t hr one, t ake me t o your t hr one . ( Kahi t mod dar i nt z ) It was amazi ng t hat whi l e I was beggi ng hi m t o make hi msel f known t o me, he t ur ned t hi s pr ayer i nt o a song and I st ar t ed si ngi ng i t t o hi m.
Af t er t hi s exper i ence, I coul d not keep t he songs f or my pr i vat e wor shi p onl y. I st ar t ed si ngi ng and shar i ng t hem i n di f f er ent wor shi p gat her i ngs. I f i nal l y sensed t hat t i me had come f or me t o compi l e al l t he songs t hat God had gi ven me over t he year s. The CD Kahi t mod i s a col l ect i on of t hi r t een wor shi p songs, and each song has a st or y.
My pr ayer and gr eat er desi r e now i s t hat t hr ough t hi s CD, wor shi per s wi l l be abl e t o ent er i nt o hi s sanct uar y and wor shi p Hi m near hi s t hr one. What a pr i vi l ege we have at hi s t hr one.
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Gilbert Hovsepian
For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:5
This is the reason of my worship; because He is good.
I am Gilbert Hovsepian, 36 years old, born and raised in Iran. I have seen Gods goodness and faithfulness in my personal life. I grew up in a home full of love and passion for the Lord as well as one another. My dad was the superintendent of Iranian Assemblies of God churches in Iran. His ministry caused me to see Gods goodness from very early age as I saw many Muslims come to Christ. Some of those Muslims were very fanatic in their faith, but the Lord opened their eyes to see the truth. Some of them are now my dearest friends and coworkers. I also saw many miracles that the Lord did in my life and the life of our church.
When I was just 5 years old, the Lord did an amazing miracle in my life. Since my brother, sister, and I loved music but didnt have any instrument and didnt have not enough money to get one, we prayed to God to give us a piano so we could learn how to play. My dad didnt share this with anyone but was fasting and praying also. Couple of months after our prayers, we received a letter from an Iranian pastor from USA. In his letter, this pastor was asking for a favor from my dad. The favor was the following: I have a very good piano that stays in my brothers house in Tehran/Iran. He is moving into a smaller apartment and doesnt have any space for that piano. Would you PLEASE take the piano? I promise it wont be long until I come to Iran and sell it.
God is good and his love endures forever. This pastor didnt have a clue about our desperate prayers for a piano, but God did. I learned how to play the piano with the talent that God himself had given it to me, on a piano that God himself gave it to me. I learned playing the piano in a short time. Years later when that pastor came to Iran and saw us playing that piano and heard the testimony behind it, he was so moved by it that he gave that piano to us as a gift from the Lord. Years later when I grew up I would always pray and I would tell him Lord I love you, I worship you, I adore you, I am crazy for you, etc. But that was not enough. I wanted to express myself more, but the words were not efficient. Thats when I started making music for the Lord. I noticed that when I worshiped through music, I was entering into his presence and I was enjoying his presence so much that sometimes I would be playing and praying for hours. I should mention that I had a great role model in that area since sometimes even in the middle of night when I would wake up, I would hear my dad, singing and playing the guitar and making new songs to the Lord. Sometimes he would go for hours. So, Music and worship became part of who I was and I felt This is what I was created for. To worship Him.
I am going to fast forward to 1994 when my dad was martyred because of his faith to Jesus Christ and his ministry among Muslims. I knew that God was good but I couldnt see His goodness in my dads
Bashde.org Newsletter Volume 2 Page 9 martyrdom and the persecution that followed. A year later I was beaten a couple of times, I was put in prison couple of times and I was ridiculed in public so many times.
It is very easy to praise and worship, when things are going well; when God answers prayers, when safety and security are provided, when health and comfort are in its place.
Worship was not the most natural thing that I wanted to do. Nagging and complaining was the first natural thing that I wanted to do. I have to confess that I did that for a short time and it just made me more bitter. One day something very special happened to me and I believed God was trying to speak to me. From that day on I decided to worship and give thanks in ALL circumstances. Sometimes we think the Bible teaches us to give him thanks FOR all things, but its IN all things. I started to praise him in the midst of my persecution. I remember writing songs and singing songs with many tears. I remember my intimate prayers in the prison cell. I remember the moment I was on the ground in the streets of Mashad/Iran, being beaten by the 3 government policemen in front of our underground church group. I remember how in my anger I prayed Lord, forgive them. They really dont know what they are doing. I remember how I would cry for hours and at the same time I would praise Him for who he is and how he can rescue me. God showed up many times in the midst of my worship. I have so many intimate experiences of how God changed my mood, how he spoke to my heart, how he gave me dreams and comforted me. God is good and his love endures forever. In that period of time when I couldnt see his goodness, I had to believe and see his goodness with the eyes of faith.
Worship is the only thing that took me out of my situation, it took me to heaven. The first time the word worship is mentioned is in Genesis chapter 22 when Abraham was going to sacrifice his son, knowing that God would provide. That is true worship, when you are ready to sacrifice your best for the Lord, yet you know that God will provide. God brought me out of the ashes; he turned my sorrow and pain into joy and dancing. God is good. Thats why I worship him.
I never desired to be a singer or a musician or a recording artist or a songwriter. All I desired was God himself and in order to get closer to him I used music and singing and writing. I still have the same desire. If one day my ministry is taken away, I dont think its going to affect me much, since my ministry is not my joy. The Lord himself is my joy and my salvation and no one and nothing can take him away from me, not even death.
I believe worship starts with the heart of a worshipper. If your heart is full of love, then true worship in spirit and in truth will rise from your heart and that kind of worship will satisfy Him. The Bible teaches us that the joy of the Lord is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10). When there is true worship, there is strength, since God is joyful.
To me, worship is reflection of His love. Gods love shines through our hearts and when we comprehend the width and length and depth and height of His love we reflect it back to him. Love from top to bottom (heaven to earth) is called grace and love from bottom to top (earth to heaven) is called worship. There will be no worship, if there is no grace. There will be little worship when little bit of his grace and love is being received. There will be true worship, when the fullness of his grace is truly received and grasped.
Page 10 Bashde Newsletter Volume 3 The more I understand and experience his love, the more I reflect. I now travel all over the world and God has given me a praise and worship ministry to glorify His name. I clearly see the same pattern in the churches. Those churches that are alive in their relationship with the Lord are usually very passionate in their worship, and those churches that are sleeping have almost no worship or what I call dead worship. Its all about love. I have two little girls (4 and 1.5 years old). Every day I express my love to them; I tell them how much I love them, but in most cases I am not satisfied until I grab them, squeeze them, and kiss them so tightly. Thats when they start to laugh and giggle.
Praise and worship is the kissing and squeezing part. If there is not enough love towards him, there is no worship to him.
12 years ago when I came to United States, I would pray and worship for hours each day. I remember many times I had this desire and prayer: God, would you please use me I didnt know exactly what I wanted, but I knew who I desired. It was Him. Gods goal for us is to know him first, and then make him known. I knew him and now I wanted to make him known.
God used me soon after in ways I never could have imagined. He opened so many doors for me. I and my family started the nonprofit ministry of Hovsepian Ministries. Through that ministry God used us and is still using us to proclaim the good news to Iranians in Iran through satellite by making short movies, documentaries, music videos, youth programs, teaching programs, etc. I had written more than 100 songs for the Lord. I didnt write them for people to hear it. I wrote them to personalize and vocalize my prayers and worship to God, but what was done in secret, God rewarded openly (Mathew 6:18).
With His grace I produced 8 Persian and 4 Armenian worship albums. My new Armenian album is coming out in November and it can be found on www.Hovsepian.com.
My purpose is to lead people into His presence, thats why I called the series of my albums Hallelujah (Hallelujah 1, 2, 3, 4, ..). All the songs in these albums are congregational songs and my prayer and hope is that people will be led to His court and would meet the king of kings.
It has been a great encouragement for me to see many Armenian and Persian churches around the world using those songs in their time of worship.
At the end I want to thank Bashde.org for the amazing work it does in peoples lives. Psalm 66:8 says let the sound of his praises be heard. Bashed.org is doing exactly that. I have heard so many testimonies of how people were down and how the sound of the praise and worship from bashed.org lifted them up. I have had the same experience and thats why I am one of the great fans of this ministry. I believe in this ministry because I believe in the power of praise and worship.
ALL the glory and honor and praise to Him and Him alone.
Gilbert Hovsepian
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Rev. Gr eg Har out uni an
I had t he pr i vi l ege of j oi ni ng Si l va Khoshaf i an, Her mi ne Get zoyan, Ar pi Sar i an, Zar a Nal bandi an and Loi s and Mour ad Kar akashi an t hi s l ast Jul y t o par t i ci pat e i n a ser i es of one- day r et r eat s t hr oughout Ar meni a.
Ar r anged by Rev. Samuel Ki r akosi an, t he t eam went t o 14 di f f er ent chur ches l eadi ng women s mi ni st r y, as wel l as par t i ci pat i ng i n a yout h conf er ence and a Coupl es Conf er ence f or Past or s & t hei r wi ves.
One of t he hi ghl i ght s was wor shi ppi ng t oget her . When I went t o Ar meni a t went y- one year s ago af t er t he ear t hquake ever y song or hymn we sang wer e t r ansl at i ons of west er n hymns or chor uses. God has been at wor k! Of t he mor e t han t hi r t y songs we sang as we went f r om chur ch t o chur ch maybe one or t wo wer e t r ansl at i ons. The r est wer e wor shi p songs t hat wer e i ndi genous t o Ar meni a.
The sheer vol ume of t hei r voi ces uni t ed i n pr ai se f r equent l y over whel med me. Thei r passi on t o wor shi p t oget her and t o be l ed i n wor shi p was i ncr edi bl e! Led by Badvel i Gi van and hi s t eam of t hr ee ot her vocal i st s, t he gat her i ngs of women, yout h and past or s & t hei r wi ves f i l l ed t he sanct uar i es wi t h Ar meni an musi c whose l yr i cs of f er ed bot h j oyf ul pr ai se and hear t - f el t cr i es f or God t o mani f est Hi s pr esence, l ove and power .
We went t o Ar meni a t o encour age, t each and bl ess t hem; God r ever sed i t i n my case by gi vi ng me t he pr i vi l ege t o wor shi p wi t h my br ot her s and si st er s who know how t o wor shi p wi t h al l t hei r hear t , soul , mi nd and st r engt h!
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