Learning to Fly (aired previously) - Bonus Episode

In this episode of Chai Time, we’re wrapping up our last series of 2023, “Many Threads, One Tapestry.” Jennifer and Dara Lynn have a conversation about what it means for our individual stories of meeting and following Christ to be a part of the larger story that God is writing for His church.

So, pour yourself a cup of tea and join us for another episode of Jesus Speaks Farsi.

For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story. And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.

In this third episode of our “Many Threads/One Tapestry” series, Hannah has a conversation with Hessam, a well-respected pastor and teacher in the Iranian church who has been a follower of Jesus for 40 years. Years after his life was transformed by the Gospel, Hessam continues to train and equip the next generation of leaders in the Iranian church.
For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story.
And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.

In this second episode of our “Many Threads/One Tapestry” series, Dara Lynn has a conversation with Darya, a German/Iranian worship leader whose songwriting and worship ministry has had a significant impact on the Iranian church in recent years. She shares about God’s restoration of her family, what living and ministering across two cultures is like, and why Iranians value their freedom to worship through song so highly.

To hear Darya’s music, you can find her on Spotify under her name Darya and on YouTube at Darya Music.

 For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story.

 And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.

In this first episode of our “Many Threads/One Tapestry” series, Dara Lynn and Jennifer chat with Dani, a young Iranian man whose unique story includes growing up in a Christian family inside Iran. He also shares about his mother's work as a Bible translator, his miraculous escape from Iran as a teenager, meeting his wife Niloofar, and working in ministry full-time with her today.

Dani’s story highlights how each of our unique stories of coming to Christ are all part of the larger story God is writing for His Church.

For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story.

And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.

In this episode of Chai Time, we’re wrapping up our most recent series, “Church planting in the Iran region.” Joe, Jennifer and Dara Lynn have a conversation about what planting a church in the Iran region looks like as well as how that differs from our Western understanding of church planting. So, pour yourself a cup of tea and join us for another episode of Jesus Speaks Farsi.

For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story. And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.

In this third episode of our “Planting churches in Iran and Beyond” series, Dara Lynn talks with Keyvan, an Iranian man who came to faith as a teenager and now plays a significant role in helping train church planters in the Iranian church. If you’ve ever wondered how church planting works in the Iran region or how church planters become church planters, this is the episode for you.

For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story.

And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.

In this second episode of our “Planting churches in Iran and Beyond” series, Joe talks with Samuel, an Argentinian pastor and evangelist, about God’s calling him to minister to people across the world from his home country, specifically in Iran. His unique church-planting story includes smuggling Bibles into a closed country, meeting and marrying his Iranian wife Sara, and serving as a senior leader in the Iranian church movement.

For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story.

And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.

In this first episode of our “Planting Churches in Iran and Beyond” series, Joe talks with Kambiz about his story of encountering Jesus as a young soldier in the Iranian army and ultimately becoming a prolific church planter in the Iranian church. In this conversation, Kambiz shares his on-the-ground experience of what planting Persian-speaking churches in the Iran region actually looks like.

For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story.

And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.

In this episode, Joe sits down with David Yeghnazar, Executive Director of Elam Ministries, to talk about the recent growth of the Iran church and the lessons the global church can learn from what God is doing among Iranian Christians today. They also share compelling testimonies of ordinary Iranians being transformed by the Gospel and going on to impact the Iran region through evangelism, discipleship and church planting.

In this episode, we’re wrapping up our most recent series, “Life After Prison.” Joe, Jennifer and Dara Lynn get together to chat about this series’ conversations with Anahita, Ladan and Sara. They talk about what it means or doesn’t mean, to be “on fire” for Jesus, how being young (in life or in faith) doesn’t exclude believers from the call to ministry, and how persecution is never the end of the story. So, grab a cup of tea and join us for another episode of Jesus Speaks Farsi.

 To hear Anahita, Ladan and Sara’s persecution stories, check out episode two and three from our Persecution series and episode 4 of our Women In Iran series.

For more information about the recent history and incredible growth of the Iranian church, please visit elam.com/iran-story.

And for more information about our organization, please visit elam.com.