The 100th Anniversary of Priest Mirzaei

Disease had spread everywhere. More than eight decades had passed since then. Health facilities were not available to the public, and the Iranian people, due to illiteracy, saw no other option but to surrender to these conditions before them. However, Christian missionaries, together with believers who considered serving God as the adornment of their lives, came to the aid of the people and built hospitals and schools in several cities of Iran. The entire cost of building and running these medical centers was covered by Christian believers abroad. After that, people's access to medical and health facilities accelerated in several metropolitan cities of the country, including Mashhad, Tabriz, Rasht, Isfahan, and Kermanshah.

At that time, Allahyar Mirzaei was going through puberty. He was born in 1917 in a family that was engaged in agriculture, near Kermanshah. From his adolescence, especially when he was 12 years old, he had role models who prioritized serving God and carrying out evangelistic services. They were missionaries who, despite the difficult conditions in Iran at that time, had come to our country to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. Growing up in such an environment, Allahyar found the truth and chose a suitable path to quench his thirsty soul.

Christian missionaries from various countries, including the United States, who were present at the medical center and its adjacent school in Kermanshah, spared no effort in the upbringing and development of this young believer. After serving in the military, Allahyar Mirzaei earned the honor of working as a Christian missionary at the Church of Jesus Christ in Kermanshah. Then he was employed by the Bible Society.

He served in remote cities and villages as a bookstore for ten years. Sanandaj, Kangavar, Kabutar Ahang, Kermanshah, Sarpol Zahab, Qasr Shirin, and Shah Abad were among the areas he served. Allahyar Mirzaei has bitter and sweet memories of this period, which was spent in difficult and exhausting conditions due to the backwardness of the country. He has compiled these memories in a book called "Memories of a Profitless Slave".

This article was compiled with the aim of creating motivation and encouragement for young Christians. Young people who consider Jesus Christ their only Savior and who do not fear to proclaim the good news and Christian gospel, and for whom physical death is meaningless.

Allahyar Mirzaei was finally ordained by the Assembly of Churches of Iran on March 22, 1970, coinciding with Farvardin 2, 1349, and continued his services in the country as "Pastor Allahyar Mirzaei."

 The main focus of his Christian activities was evangelism. In the years after the revolution, despite the martyrdom of a number of God's children and the difficult conditions created for the activities of Christian ministers in Iran, Pastor Mirzaei continued his evangelism services in his homeland.

But finally, seven years after the revolution, he was forced to leave his homeland and went to Germany. Then he chose to immigrate to Canada and has been engaged in church services in this country since 1989.

This child of God, now in his 100th year, has blessed his decades with the desire for eternal life with our Lord. He and his wife, Martha Khanum, have four daughters who are proud children, all of whom have had Christian marriages.

We are proud that Pastor Allahyar Mirzaei holds the crown of honor of being an adopted son and disciple of our Lord, and we confess that the title of "selfless servant" is rightfully his.