Yeshua Askari and Khadijeh Baratzaedh-Askari

• Lead Pastors
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• wayofthecrossfolsom@gmail.com

Khadijeh Baratzadeh-Askari was born in the south of Iran in an Islamic family. Then she moved to America in 1977 with her husband Yeshua Askari and their two years old son, Hirmand Askari. Her husband Yeshua started college to become a Mechanical Engineer. They settled in Oklahoma City and lived there for two years, but in 1979 her husband attended Sacramento University. Yeshua graduated in 1981 from Sac State with his mechanical engineering degree, but during their first two years in Oklahoma City, they were introduced to the doctrine of Marxism by some college students, who were Iranian and part of communist movement in Iran. She decided to join their organization. She radically got involved with that organization while her husband was pushing his education.

Khadijeh joined their monthly meeting at UC Berkeley and their monthly picket line in San Francisco and Sacramento State University. She also was hosting some of their meetings at her own house. She even traveled back to Iran in 1978 to distribute all kinds of books and ligatures in some of the universities in Iran and among people that she knew in which were all related to the doctrine of Communism by Marx and Lenin. After seven years, Islamic government of Iran found all of their communist leaders in Iran and executed them all. She was left with no organization.

It was in October of 1983 that she had a divine encounter with Jesus Christ in her dream. After she shared her dream with an American family, who were Christian, they invited her to their church in Penryn and there she received baptism of the Holy Spirit, which made her confess her faith in Christ Jesus as her savior. She shared her faith with her husband and they both decided to be baptized at that church by Pastor Bob Birch.

Khadijeh received her first call by God in 1998 to take the gospel of Christ to her Muslims people from Iran and all other Islamic countries. She was called as a woman to unveil women, who were under oppression of religion of Islam; and tear down the wall for women in ministry as a leader in God’s Church. She began her ministry in their house. That is why her Pastor, Ken Bluemel at Gate Way (Skyline) directed her to go to Bible College. It was in 2oo2 that she decided to attend EPIC Bible College. She graduated in 2017 with her master in Ethical Leadership. God opened many doors for her to expand her ministry among many churches of different nations. Then it was in March of 2013 that Pastor Don Proctor and his wife Pastor Christa Proctor, who are founder of City Pastor Fellowship, decided to ordain Khadijeh and her husband Yeshua as the Pastor of their church by gathering other City Pastors for their ordination.