Marc Merhej, a member of our community in Beirut, was recently featured in an article in Christianity Today. The article highlights a 10,000-person worship event that he organized in January of last year. It was a very ambitious undertaking, but God really opened doors for Marc in organizing this landmark event.
The event was called Beirut 2024, and in it Marc brought together a choir of three hundred Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical Christians from across Lebanon. The event itself showcased the wide array of liturgical traditions of Lebanon, ranging from Byzantine to Armenian to Syriac. The article includes a YouTube video of the entire event, which you can watch if you’d like.
Praying together across denominational lines points to the unity that God’s people will experience in heaven, and worshipping together unites us here on earth. As you’ll read in the article, we have already begun to see the lasting fruit from this event: relationships were built around the event, and these relationships opened up opportunities for more cooperation among Christians in Lebanon. Take a few minutes to read the article – it’s really worth it!
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