In celebration of Armenian Cultural Month St. John Armenian Church of Milwaukee, WI, will host An Evening of Classical Concert featuring Yeghishe Manucharyan (Tenor, Metropolitan Opera) and Victoria Avetisyan (Mezzo – Soprano, Boston Opera)
Archangel is a title given to an angel of high rank in the celestial hierarchy. Michael, which means “who is like God,” is one of the principal angels. Gabriel, which means “strength of God,” is one of God’s chief messengers…
Texas is famous for its overpass bridges and highways. Roads going one way, lanes curving another direction, some rising high, others dropping low. It’s a maze of concrete and confusion, and yet somehow, it all works. Cars are moving, people are getting where they need to go, and even though it looks chaotic from the outside, there’s a design behind it.
That’s how God works in our lives. You may be in a season where things feel out of order. One moment you’re headed straight, then life curves left. You thought you’d be further along by now, but you hit a detour. You see someone else on an overpass flying by, and you wonder, “God, did You forget about me down here in this parking lot?”
Cyrus Melikian was an Armenian American coffee industry pioneer credited with several inventions, like the coffee vending machine and the first fresh-brew machine in the U.S. that gave great impulse to coffee consumption among the American public. He was also instrumental in the invention of coffee pods.
Khoren Cyrus Sirak Melikian was born on November 24, 1920, in Philadelphia to refugees from the Armenian Genocide. He graduated from Northeast High School and was working while attending the University of Pennsylvania when he was drafted.
While serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1944, Melikian wanted a cup of coffee in Ohio, but it was not available between meals in the cafeteria. He and a friend…
