ADVENT 2007

Prayers and Petitions:
A Call for Advent Prayer and Action

Iran/Iraq photos

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Ron Flaming, MCC's director of international programs, holds a ceramic oil lamp made by Indiana potter Dick Lehman. A delegation of U.S. Christian leaders gave the lamps to Iranian political and religious leaders during a February 2007 trip. (MCC Photo by Mark Beach)

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami holds a ceramic oil lamp presented to him by an MCC-sponsored delegation in February. Delegation members are encouraging churches to light oil lamps and pray for peace between the U.S. and Iran. (MCC Photo by Mark Beach)

A delegation of church leaders from the United States traveled to Iran to meet with religious and political leaders and to dialogue and build relations between the two countries. Here Ron Flaming presents a quilt to Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (MCC Photo by Mark Beach)

A delegation of church leaders from the United States went to Iran to meet with religious and political leaders to dialogue and build relations between the two countries. (MCC Photo by Mark Beach)

A delegation of church leaders from the United States went to Iran to meet with religious and political leaders to dialogue and build relations between the two countries. (MCC Photo by Mark Beach)

J. Daryl Byler, former MCC Washington Office directory, gave a lamp to Patriarch Raphael I. Bidawid of the Caldean Catholic church, in Iraq, May 2002. Patriarch Bidawid has since died. MCC continues to work with the Caldean Catholic church. Daryl and Cindy Byler, his wife, currently serve with MCC in Amman, Jordan.

Susan Mark Landis, peace advocate, was a delegate on a Fellowship of Reconciliation grassroots diplomacy tour to Iran during the summer of 2008.

Archbishop Seboug Sarkissian of the Armenian Christian Church received a peace lamp from Susan Mark Landis.

Khali Ghangri, with Abdorrahim Soleimani looking on, at the Center for Religious Studies in Qom, receives a lamp from Susan Mark Landis. 

Bishop Papken Tcharian, Armenian  Bishop of Esfahan, receives a peace lamp from Susan Mark Landis. Photo by Sean McConnell

Dr. Mehdi Mostafavi, the president of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization of Iran, receives a peace lamp from Susan Mark Landis, in Tehran, Iran.

Photos of the quilted wall hangings presented when the delegation traveled to Iran in Feb 2007.