{"id":5597,"date":"2010-12-09T08:41:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2010-12-09T18:32:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T02:32:21","slug":"lcg-evangelist-dibar-apartian-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/cog-news\/lcg-evangelist-dibar-apartian-died\/","title":{"rendered":"LCG Evangelist Dibar Apartian Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/apartians.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dibar Apartian shown sitting between COGwriter and my wife Joyce (his wife Shirley is to my right)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just confirmed with LCG in Charlotte, NC,\u00a0 that long-time evangelist Dibar Apartian died last night.<\/p>\n<p>I also received an email from unofficial sources that included the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another mighty oak has fallen. Our beloved friend and brother, Evangelist Dibar  Krikor Apartian, has gone to a well-earned rest. Mr. Apartian lived to 94 years  of age\u201424 years beyond King David who died \u201cold and full of days\u201d at age 70. The  Eternal God used Mr. Apartian to raise up the Work of God in the French language  and to oversee and guide that Work for many decades. Through his ministry in the  French language, through his sermons and articles in English, and through his  well-known personal love and graciousness, Mr. Apartian had a wonderful impact  on the lives of many thousands of people around the world.\u2014Roderick C.  Meredith<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dibar Apartian lived into his mid-90s.\u00a0 As many know, he was responsible for the French language work in the old WCG, the old GCG, and the current<a href=\"\/ylcg.htm\"> Living Church of God<\/a>.\u00a0 He also handled other aspects of Church Administration in and out of the USA for LCG.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, he also taught French at the old Ambassador College (Pasadena, California campus).<\/p>\n<p>His voice was well known throughout much of the French-speaking world as  he did a radio program for decades in the French-language that was  heard in several French-speaking nations.\u00a0 His radio program for the  Living Church of God was titled <em>Le Monde<\/em> <em>Demain<\/em> (Tomorrow&#8217;s World).\u00a0 His last foreign trip was for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/feast.htm\">Feast of Tabernacles<\/a> to the French-speaking island of Martinique.<\/p>\n<p>Dibar Apartian and I have known each other for a long time and we counted each other as friends.\u00a0 In one of our last conversations, he concluded with the words, &#8220;I love you&#8221;.\u00a0 I was emotionally touched.<\/p>\n<p>I, and countless others, will miss him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, Dibar Apartian shown sitting between COGwriter and my wife Joyce (his wife Shirley is to my right) COGwriter I just confirmed with LCG in Charlotte, NC,\u00a0 that long-time evangelist Dibar Apartian died last night. I also received an email from unofficial sources that included the following: Another mighty oak has fallen. Our beloved friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}