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Mission: To unconditionally love everyone.
Goal: Pray for the Holy Spirit to show us ways to help others discover their unique gifts of grace.
Action: Model compassionate care.
Call: Share ministry with others by encouraging everyone to exercise their relational ministry. First, with family, then close friends, and then those in the community who are not connected to someone in a spiritual relationship.
World View: Local churches make up the spiritual heart of a community. However, all local churches are connected with the global universal church. The global universal church is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit on the earth. This fleshly dwelling place is the treasure in earthly vessels. The global universal church is a spiritual body, made without hands. The church is God's new governmental system on earth. The global universal church is made up of all nations, all people, all kindred, all tongues, is God manifested in the flesh. It is the Nation of Jesus Society.
Sacramental View: A sacrament is an outward sign of an inward influence of God's grace. Therefore, everything we do is a result of God's mercy and grace working in us to bring peace and non-violence into the world. Although God calls some to live a life of single devotion to the sacred heart and work of Jesus. Marriage, Conception, Birth, Baptism, Preventing Grace, Repentance, Confirmation of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Communion, Communion of Saints, Healing, Miracles, Anointing of oil, Laying on of hands, Witnessing, Confessing our faults, Encouraging one another, and Restoration are all a result of our responding to the immeasurable Grace of God and the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
The Kingdom of God: The teaching of Jesus is represented in the Aramaic prayer that he taught his disciples to pray.
"Our Father in Heaven, Our heavenly Father, hallowed is your name.
Your Kingdom is come. Your will is done,
As in heaven so also on earth.
Give us the bread for our daily need.
And leave us serene,
just as we also allowed others serenity.
And do not pass us through trial,
except separate us from the evil one.
For yours is the Kingdom,
the Power and the Glory
To the end of the universe, of all the universes." Amen!
Eashoa (Jesus) our King-Priest continually representing humans on earth, both dead and breathing from his parallel Universe of higher frequency. Jesus teaches that "all live unto me". Jesus our King-Priest sits at the right hand of Allaha, Our Father, continually mediating mercy and grace. Gifting "gifts" to both men and women, at His discretion, to those who cooperate and respond to his spirit-voice and written Word. Jesus is continually mediating his Seven Spirits to humans as we need them to be more than conquerors. His Seven Spirits are: "there shall rest and settle upon him the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Wisdom and Knowledge, the Spirit of Providence and Greatness, the Spirit of Understanding and Submission to the Lord;3. And he shall ascend from the East* with his Lord's assumptions,*" The spirit of Eashoa, is pouring out healing, joy, knowledge, understanding, peace, justice, mercy, oil of gladness into this global community. If you interested in becoming a partner with us contact us by filling in your contact information on the Home Page. |
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Joseph Plumb Cochran, M.D. (January 14, 1855, Urmia, Iran – August 18, 1905, Urmia, Iran), was an American Presbyterian missionary. He is credited as the founding father of Iran’s first modernMedical School.[1]
Joseph Cochran's father, the Reverend Joseph J. Cochran, and his mother, Deborah Plum, were first-generation American missionaries who travelled to Iran in 1848. They settled in Urmia, WesternAzarbaijan, Iran, home to the people of the ancient culture of Urartu and of one of the earliest Christian churches, the Assyrian Church of the East. The family devoted their missionary zeal to the well-being of the local population, many of whom were devout Christians.
The young Joseph was one of the eight children of Cochran's family. He had an happy childhood in the company of his large family and friends. He learnt the local Assyrian, Azerbaijani andKurdish, in addition to English and Persian. He left for America as a teenager in 1868, staying there with family's relatives. He studied medicine at New York Medical College, from where he graduated in 1876. Subsequently he did two years of practical hospital work in surgery, infectious diseases and gynecology. During a travel to Minnesota he met his future wife, Katherine Hale.
The young couple went to Iran in 1878. Upon their arrival in Urmia they surveyed the medical and health needs of the community and found the existing small health clinic, which was working under the auspices of the Iranian Red Lion and Sun Society, inadequate. On Joseph's earnest request, the Board of Assyrian Missionary purchased a 15-hectare garden which was soon to become the site of a 100-bed hospital, named Westminster Hospital. The building of this hospital was completed within one year from its original planning and the hospital opened its doors in 1879.
Cochran resolved the problem of shortage in the local medical professionals by establishing a modern Medical School, the first of its kind in Iran. For this purpose he erected a wooden building, which included a research laboratory, near the hospital, where the future medical personnel were to be trained. Remarkably, this original wooden building, near the present-day Urmia Medical School, is still intact. An adjoining maternity hospital was built later, for which the required medical equipment arrived from America.
According to the information provided by the official website of Urmia University,[2] Joseph Cochran has been [the first] director of the Medical School in Urmia, established in 1878. In the course of Cochran's 27 years of directorship, 26 medical students graduated from this School. This School was closed on Joseph Cochran's death in 1905 and remained in this state until sixty years later when it was opened as one of several Schools of Urmia University. The historical archives of Urmia University is in the possession of documents that show that Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar and Joseph Cochran have personally signed and handed certificates to graduating students during the graduation ceremony of 1898 (1277 AH).
During the above-mentioned period, Joseph Cochran was joined by other American medical doctors, including Dr Wright, Dr Homlz, Dr van Norden, and Dr Miller, who remained permanently in Iran.[3] Their resting places are in Urmia.
Joseph Cochran died in Urmia at the age of 50, on 18 August 1905, on the second floor of his wooden house in the Medical School. His death was mourned by many. According to reports, his funeral was attended by more than 10,000 mourners. He was buried in the Assyrian Missionary Cemetery located on the side of Seer Mountain in Urmia facing his wooden house, close to the resting places of his wife Catherine and her parents. His epitaph reads: "He came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." [4]
His son, Joseph P. Cochran, Jr, returning to Iran in 1920, followed in his father's footsteps through his services in the American Mission Hospital. His daughter, Dorothy Cochran-Romson, served for a short time as a missionary nurse in Tabriz, the capital city of the East Azerbaijan Province.
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There was a Bible man named Joseph born to a faithful man who loved him very much. His brothers disliked him from the beginning but around the house could say nothing. Dad was listening and would not stand for any talk about Joseph. But one day Joseph went to visit them at the work location.
In Joseph's excitement he began to tell them of the fantastic things that God was going to do and they could all be a part of it. But they were already doing okay by the standards of the day and he was just a dreamer anyway. They took one look at the beautiful coat of many colors that his Daddy had bought him and jealousy took control.
The tongues wagged behind the poor boy's back and he knew nothing. But it was decided that he was not their speed. He could not run with them. He had nothing tooffer. After all something must be wrong with him for his Daddy to love him so much.
So the plot was laid. They would silence his voice. See him no more. Have no awkward moments when he came into their presence. And the house would be the same again, like before he was born!
Springing on him like a cheetah on zebra, they stripped him of his beautiful earthly assets. They flung him in a pit. They killed a goat. Dipped his coat in the blood. That's it. We will call him dead.
Yes, Daddy would sorrow for awhile but after a while the killing by an animal story would stick. They would be through with him. No more dreams. No more Joseph. But what do we do with him?
Now they were not murderers of flesh. Just assassins of character, intelligence and good works. They had to get rid of him. Down the dusty road came their answer.
Slave traders. Sure, why did they not think of it before? Let's make some money off of him. Take him for what he's worth. No one will ever know.
Sunlight flooded into the pit where Joseph had been cast. Drug by ropes up the side until feet landed upon the ground. Bound hand and foot his fearful eyes took one last, longing look at those he loved and those he thought loved him and then it was over. He was gone. Gone to a place called Egypt to be a slave!
Money exchanged over and over for this intelligent, sharp favored son until he landed in the house of a ruler. He began to do well. He began to make friends. He began to find favor again. Wealth reappeared and he was making do.
I don't how often he thought of his brothers and their deeds but I am sure he thought of his dear old dad and how he must miss him! But can't go there too much. Got to keep thinking his way out and moving up where he was enslaved. And then it happened again.
The old gal who he worked for desired him. He had far too much integrity to fall for the soft words again and he fled. She lied. Her husband believed her. Joseph had tried to rape her and now he was headed to another prison to pay for someone else's ladder climbing, backstabbing, ungrateful ways.
Down in the jail house he started moving up again. Made some good friends. When they dreamed he told them what it meant. The favor was still on him and he was accurate so he was gaining ground when somebody told somebody who told somebody that he was good at what he did. That somebody happened to be the King or the Pharaoh as he was called.
Out of prison. Into the Palace. Moving on up. Now he's over the national warehouse and because of his way with dreams he knew the famine was coming and had stocked up so good that the Pharaoh could feed all of his people pretty good and then it happened.
Back at home Daddy could not supply food for his sons and daughters and their wives and children and so he made a decision. Calling them in, he told them to get their trucks and trailers and go to Egypt and buy some food. Off they went and when they got there they showed up at the Pharaoh's warehouse. And guess who was there?
Well, they did not remember him. It was so long ago. We have no more obligation. But Joseph remembered. Cried a bit. And sold them food. But he had to find out about Daddy and is this a brother he had never seen before?
What a heartache. What a sadness. But to see Daddy again he had to put up with the boys. What would Daddy want him to do?
I can identify with Joseph...
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