The Meeting Tent
“Where God meets His people again and equips Farsi-speakers to bring the Gospel to the nations.”
Kheimeh Molaghat Church — “The Meeting Tent” — is drawn from Scripture: the sacred place where God met with His people. Our ministry began in 2013, humbly and simply, from our apartment with no official building — only a burning passion to bring the Word of God to Iran and to those who, because of the Islamic Revolution and ongoing persecution, had no access to true Christian churches or biblical resources.
The very first person we reached was in Iran, through the internet. We shared the Word of God with him, and thus our church began online with a single member from Iran. From that moment, the Lord Himself established His Tabernacle of Meeting once again — for a suffering and persecuted people — to set them free and grant them new life.
Just as the Lord built the Tabernacle of Meeting for Israel in the wilderness, today He has raised His Tabernacle among the Farsi-speaking peoples of the world — scattered across nations, oppressed under unjust regimes, and long deceived by false gods. Here, He meets His afflicted people, saves them, blesses them, and equips them to serve among the nations, so that many more may come to salvation through them.
From that day until now, by the grace of Christ, thousands of Farsi-speakers across the globe have come to faith in Jesus Christ and have been discipled through the online ministry of Kheimeh Molaghat Church. In the summer of 2016, the first in-person Farsi-speaking church was established in Addison, a suburb of Chicago. As this congregation grew, local Farsi churches were planted in Canada, Brazil, Pakistan, and Turkey — proclaiming the Good News to the nations.
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:19
James & Joy Shahabi
Both born into Muslim families in Iran, James and Joy fled persecution and encountered Christ in Turkey — their lives transformed by the testimony of a young believer and three miraculous appearances of Jesus. In 2013 they migrated to the United States and began an online ministry that today connects hundreds of Farsi-speakers from 14 countries to Christ.











