Ministries at IBCA
Every ministry at IBCA flows from the same call: to love God, love one another, and carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to Armenia and her neighbors.
Worship & Discipleship
Sunday worship at 11 AM, verse-by-verse expositional preaching, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper. Dr. Lisa Pursley helps lead congregational worship.
Mercy Ministries
Caring for widows, the poor, the sick, and those in need — in the pattern of the early church in Acts.
Theological Education
The Armenian Theological Academy, Bible institutes, cohorts, and small-group studies equip believers for ministry in Armenia and the wider region.
The Agarak Ministry Center
In 2019 Dr. Pursley took a scouting trip to Syunik Province, on Armenia’s southern border with Iran. Since then, IBCA has helped establish a ministry center in Agarak — now home to a sister church, the Hope Language Center (teaching English, Armenian, and Persian), evangelistic youth camps, and a theological library with resources in Armenian, Russian, Persian, and English.
The Agarak center serves as the strategic base for outreach to the thousands of Iranians crossing into Armenia each year — many hearing the gospel and receiving a Bible for the first time in their lives. Worship services and weekly home groups gather believers from the region.
Operation Announcing Freedom
Under the Islamic regime, conversion to Christianity is a capital crime in Iran, Persian Bibles are illegal, and public worship in Persian is forbidden. IBCA’s response is Operation Announcing Freedom — a long-term plan for evangelism, Bible distribution, and church planting among Iranians and Persians.
Each year at Nowruz (Persian New Year), when tens of thousands of Iranians travel to Yerevan to celebrate, IBCA mobilizes volunteers from our own congregation and partner Armenian churches to share the gospel, distribute thousands of Persian Bibles, and invite Persians into fellowship with Jesus Christ. Many have come to faith through this work, and a growing community of Persian believers now calls IBCA home.
Artsakh Refugee Ministry
In September 2023, more than 100,000 Armenians were forcibly exiled from their ancestral homeland in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). Many of those families were relocated to remote villages near the Iranian border. IBCA and our partner church in Agarak have served these families with weekly dinners, home visits, water-line construction, livestock and small-business support, and ongoing discipleship. The goal is not aid alone, but the restoration of hope and community in Jesus Christ.
The Republic of Armenia Prayer Breakfast
Through the IBC NGO (Individual Believers Club), IBCA hosts the annual Republic of Armenia Prayer Breakfast — a gathering of Armenian political, civic, and Christian leaders to pray for the nation. The third Prayer Breakfast was held on November 14–15, 2025, with participation from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and delegates from the European Prayer Breakfast fellowship.
“Christ is Lord over every office and every government official — elected or appointed — and they answer to Him alone.”
Partner With Us
If your church or mission organization is interested in supporting these ministries — through prayer, short- or long-term missionary deployment, financial partnership, or Bible distribution — we would love to hear from you.