2009 Advent Season Dinner December 8, 2009

The Men’s Fellowship of Fresno’s First Armenian Presbyterian Church will open the Congregation’s 112th Christmas Celebration with its 2009 Advent Season Dinner.
The Dinner will take place on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, at the church campus, 430 South First Street just west of the Historic Huntington Boulevard Candlelight Christmas.
The evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with ethnic appetizers and will continue at 7 p.m. with a barbecue steak and chicken dinner. Reservations are $10 per person and may be made by calling the Church Offices at (559) 237-6638 or e-mailing fapc@fapc.net.
The evening will culminate with special Advent solos by vocalist Brandyce Esajian and group caroling in the Fellowship Hall with direction by Elder Ronald F. Karabian and piano accompaniment by Susan Khushigian. Every guest will receive a complimentary copy of the 2009 Men’s Fellowship Christmas Carol Booklet.
The Men’s Fellowship Dinner is the first of more than a dozen ministry events set for the Congregation’s 112th Advent Season. A complete Christmas Season Calendar is available at www.fapc.net.
Forty immigrants from Marsovan chartered the congregation in a rented Fresno hall on July 25, 1897. The congregation formally joined the family of Presbyterian Churches in October of that same year.
The boyhood church of authors William Saroyan and A.I. Bezzerides, FAPC today is a multigenerational evangelical congregation drawn from the Old and New Worlds.
Reverend Mgrdich Melkonian is the Senior Pastor of the congregation, Reverend Aren Balabanian is the Associate Pastor, Shant Barsoumian, M.Div. is the pastoral intern, and Dennis Shamlian D.D.S. is Chair of the Men’s Fellowship Executive Committee.
FAPC is a member congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America. The 2009 theme of the congregation is “All Things Are Possible with God.”

Official Website: http://www.fapc.net