FIRST ARMENIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
430 SOUTH FIRST ST -² FRESNO, CA 93702-1056
TEL. (559) 237-6638 -² FAX (559) 237-9528
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PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Annie Baroutjian
July 29, 2011Telephone:
(559) 237-6638
AEUNA TO INSTALL ASSOCIATE PASTOR AT CALIFORNIA’S OLDEST ARMENIAN CHURCH
The Armenian Evangelical Union of North America will install Reverend
Mike Mekredijian as Associate Pastor of Fresno’s First Armenian
Presbyterian Church. The Service of Installation will take place at 6
p.m. on Sunday, August 7, at the Church Campus, 430 South First Street
at Huntington Boulevard. A fellowship reception will immediately
follow the service.
A graduate of Philadelphia University and Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary in Massachusetts, Reverend Mekredijian most recently served
as Senior Pastor of the Armenian Euphrates Evangelical Church of
Providence, Rhode Island. He is married to the former Tamar Abadjian,
a native of California’s Central Coast. Reverend Mekredijian succeeds
Interim Associate Pastor Eric E. Thompson, who has served the
congregation since September 2010.
The Glendale-based AEUNA is an ecclesiastical confederation of
Armenian Protestant churches, missions, and fellowships in the United
States of America and Dominion of Canada. Reverend Joseph Matossian is
the Minister to the Union and Reverend Mgrdich Melkonian is Moderator.
The Fresno Congregation marked its 114th Anniversary on July 25,
2011. The Church’s theme for 2011 is `A New Community.’ -30-