Demos Shakarian

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Demos Shakarian ( Armenian Դեմոս Շաքարյան ; * July 21, 1913 ; † July 19, 1993 ) was a Christian businessman with Armenian ancestry and is the founder of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI; Christians at work).

Life

Demos is named after his grandfather, who emigrated from Armenia to the USA in 1905 based on a prophecy of the Russian prophet Efim Gerasemovitch Klubniken. In 1855 he predicted that an unspeakable tragedy would soon strike Armenia. A large group of Pentecostal Christian Armenians moved to Los Angeles years before the genocide in 1914, in which over a million and a half Armenians were killed.

In the United States, the family worked hard and became wealthy. Demos' (junior) dairy herd became the largest in the world at the time. He used his organizational skills to support evangelistic events and started a prayer group that later became the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. He was a close friend of Pentecostal healing evangelist Charles Sydney Price , and his organization promoted spiritual healers such as William Branham .

meaning

Shakarian founded the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI) from Los Angeles in 1951 . The German branch was founded in 1958. The International Association of Christian Businesspeople (IVCG), which was founded almost simultaneously in Germany and Switzerland in 1957 and whose name was initially taken over by the German branch, was involved in this establishment . As of 1965, the name was Full Gospel Businessmen . Today it is Christian at work .

The International Association of Christian Business People consists of groups (called "Chapters") in 132 countries. Her in-house magazine "Voice Magazine" has a circulation of 800,000 and her television programs are viewed by more than four million people each week.

His son Richard Shakarian is the international president of the FGBMFI.

literature

  • Elizabeth Sherrill: The Happiest People on Earth. Steward Press, 1975, ISBN 0-8007-8362-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roy Weremchuk, THUS Saith the Lord? , Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2019, p. 236
  2. ↑ Demos Shakarian (1913–1993) ( Memento of August 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on christianheroes.com
personal data
SURNAME Shakarian, demos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American founder of the FGBMFI
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1913
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1993