Installation of New Associate Pastor
First Armenian Presbyterian Church of Fresno
California’s oldest Armenian Church will mark a milestone in Central California as it installs a new Associate Pastor in the life of the congregation.
The First Armenian Presbyterian Church of Fresno will install Reverend Chris Bower as Executive Associate Pastor on Sunday, November 2, 2025. The service of installation will take place at 4 p.m. at the Church Campus, 430 South First Street at historic Huntington Boulevard, near Downtown Fresno. A fellowship meal will follow.
Forty immigrants from Marsovan chartered the First Armenian Presbyterian Church in a rented Fresno hall on July 25, 1897. Reverend Bower’s service of installation will take place exactly 128 years to the week after FAPC was received and enrolled by the Presbytery of Stockton at a meeting in Oakland, California.
The newly-called cleric was educated at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi and the Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He previously served in pastorates at West Isle Presbyterian Church of Galveston, Texas, Sea Change Christ Community Church in Anchorage, Alaska, First Presbyterian Church in Tallassee, Alabama, among other assignments. Reverend Bower and his wife, Krista, have three children, Roman, Graeme, and Elise.
The boyhood Church of Authors William Saroyan and A.I. Bezzerides, FAPC is a member congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) and the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America (AEUNA). Reverend Gregory Vahack Haroutunian is the Senior Pastor. The 2025 theme of the congregation is: “Love God. Love Others. Make Disciples.”
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