The Bakhtiari Family Mission!
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The Bakhtiari Family Mission!
As a family, we live to honor God and reveal His love to the world.
We choose life together across cultures and generations.
We open our arms to the displaced and forgotten, making room for home.
We reach those who do not yet know God as He longs to be known.
We lift our voices and our lives to proclaim the Way, the Truth, and the Life — Jesus.
We form disciples, growing in faith, character, and intimacy with God.
We remain apprentices of grace, always learning and being renewed.
We lean wholly on the breath and power of the Holy Spirit.
We give ourselves to our Father’s work, with joy and faithfulness.
We follow Jesus.
To see the rejected carried home into the House of the Father.
To see the displaced clothed in their Heavenly Citizenship.
To see the uprooted find rest beneath the Tree of Life.
To see families healed and reunited by the Prince of Peace.
To see the hungry satisfied and sustained by the Bread of Heaven.
To see chains fall and darkness flee before the Light of the World.
To see eyes opened and hearts awakened to the Living Word.
To see the broken rise in healing and praise to the Lamb of God.
To see all nations, tribes, and tongues worship Jesus as King of Kings.
Javad grew up as an Afghan migrant kid in Teheran, Iran.
In his early twenties he left Iran and came to Europe as refugee. Here he came to faith in Jesus Christ the Son of God.
After 4 years of waiting for asylum in vain Javad travelled to his father’s country, where he almost lost his new found faith. Through a miracle he got connected with other believers, which was a turning point and changed his life forever. Together with this small faith community Javad started to go through discipleship training, but then persecution became life-threatening, which led to him and many of the other believers leaving the country for safety.
Javad finished his discipleship training in India and then once again made his way to Europe to seek asylum.
When he reached Austria he got involved in serving the Persian speaking community in the local church right away. After his asylum case was accepted he received education as retail salesman to then work in the clothing trade for several years.
Since 2022 Javad is serving full-time as a missionary and bible teacher; discipling, raising and connecting leaders among the Persian speaking community. Javad is married to Karla and together they have three precious children.
Karla grew up in a traditional Austrian family. After finishing school she moved to South Africa to work as a volunteer with street children. In South Africa she became part of a vibrant church community and stepped out of a Christian religion into real relationship with Jesus Christ, which changed her life forever. Back in Austria she did her diploma in Social Pedagogy and also completed her Masters in Music Education while also serving in a local church. During several years of working with young refugees she specialised on Afghanistan and started feeling a strong call for this nation. Karla left Austria again to get trained at a School for World Missions in the Philippines with hopes to be sent out to Afghanistan. This did not happen though. Instead, upon her arrival back in Austria, she got to know Javad who had just arrived in the country too and whom she married one and a half years later. Now Karla is busy serving alongside Javad, in their community and local church, while raising and homeschooling their three children.
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