Service of Installation August 7, 2011

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.”