Israel/Palestine Mission Network 

Annual Meeting and Conference

More information about speakers, workshops, and registration will follow soon!  We look forward to this time together for fellowship with old and new friends, for continued education, and revitalization for our individual and community work for a just peace for Palestine/Israel.  We hope you will be able to attend!

Volunteers are needed to make this event possible! If you are interested in helping plan the agenda or worship, volunteering to help out during the conference with registration, transportation, etc., or have any other questions please email Marietta Macy at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Back Story

It has been said that home is where the heart is. Home is remembered as the place where one flourished and is remembered with joy; when one has lost their home, that joy is mixed with an ever-present sadness and longing.  In 1915, a ten-year-old Osanna Panian left home and escaped what is now known as The Armenian Genocide; she survived and walked over the mountains into Iran and life as a refugee. Was she just lucky that she survived what Winston Churchill later called the first holocaust of the twentieth century? Or was it Providence? 

Osanna is the Latin version of the Greek word hosanna. It’s a popular girls’ name in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, but it is also a liturgical word with Hebrew and Aramaic roots meaning “Save me!” or “Help me!” When sung in the liturgy on Palm Sunday, this beseeching cry has the feel of a profound prayer for deliverance.  Osanna Panian was given this liturgical name because she was born on Palm Sunday in 1905. Little did anyone know…