The first Christian baptism at the IMS of a brother in the faith of Jesus was performed recently in Jordan, West Asia, Pastor Pablo Hunger, Leader of the Evangelism Department at the General Conference of the IMS who performed the baptism, confirmed yesterday, on April 5, 2026, through photos via Facebook, together with an appeal to us to pray for the interested souls in that new country where the beginning of the church happened.
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, a semi-arid country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia, whose capital and largest city is Amman, has a total area of 89,342 square kilometers and, being the eleventh-most populous Arab country, a population of 11,484,805 citizens, as of the 2023 estimate. Jordan, which took its name from the Jordan River, was home to the kingdoms of Ammon, Edom and Moab, during the Iron Age (1200–332 BC), after the withdrawal of the Egyptians, however the Roman Empire conquered much of the Levant in 63 BC. Later on, in the modern era, the Treaty of London, signed by the British government and the Emir of Transjordan on 22 March 1946, recognized the independence of Jordan.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
Just before the baptism; a photo from the personal archive of Pastor Pablo Hunger.
