POOYAN MEHRSHAHI
- Pooyan Mehrshahi is the pastor of Providence Baptist Chapel, Cheltenham, England (since August 2007). He is a native of Iran, and was converted from Zoroastrianism when he heard the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in England.
- He is leading the Persian Bible revision/translation project with the Trinitarian Bible Society.
- As the chairman of the Parsa Trust, he engages in translating, publishing and distributing Evangelical and Reformed literature throughout the world for Persian (Farsi) speakers.
- He is a trustee of the Bible League Trust, and was a contributor of the KJV Reformation Heritage Study Bible (study notes on Proverbs). He is married to Becky, and they are blessed with four children.
- Pastor Mehrshahi is from a Reformed Covenantal Baptist persuasion, holding to the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, with great admiration for the reformers and the puritans.
"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us." — "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630)