About this episode
If you’re looking for inspiration that God has a plan and that you can do hard things, then this interview is for you.
Enduring painful hardships as an Iranian woman, Lily Meschi found Christ and freedom from her arranged marriage. As a single mother, she worked up the ranks in her career finding herself successful and established. Then God called her to ministry with Iran Alive to help women find freedom in Christ as she did.
In this interview with Lily, you’ll hear about:
Finding Jesus as a Muslim
A Beautiful Redemption Story
What to do when you’re called to do something that you don’t want to do
Knowing when God is calling you and walking in obedience
Iran Alive and their amazing impact on the Iranian people
I hope you're encouraged by this episode and that you continue shifting your mindset toward Jesus so you can do all that He is calling you to do.
More About Lily
With a passion “to live life on purpose,” Lily Meschi serves in ministry for Iran Alive as the Director of Partners Relations. Through her own experiences as an Iranian Woman, Lily offers profound insight into the current protests in Iran for women’s rights. Lily was born and raised in a Muslim family in Tehran, Iran.
At the age of 18, her family moved to the U.S. Through a chain of painful hardships relating to her rights as an Iranian woman, Lily came to discover Christianity. In her freedom found in her own testimony, she has developed a heart for Iranian women who, like herself, have undergone similar oppression and loneliness. Lily often speaks on the corrupt practices of arranged marriages of young women to older men in the Middle East, amongst other norms in their societies. She takes pride in working at Iran Alive Ministries, where she is able to speak about cultural dispositions such as arranged marriages and the strong grip of abusive male domination in the culture.
A few relevant points on the women issues in Iran:
The Islamic regime lowered the age of marriage for women from 18 to 13 in 1979 and then again to 9 in 1982
A married woman cannot leave the country without her husband's permission.
Women are not allowed to watch men play sports at stadiums.
A man can marry up to four women at one time, but women can only marry one husband.
A woman needs a male guardian's consent to marry
Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslim men, but Muslim men can marry Jews, Christians, or Zoroastrians
Women can only get a divorce in a court while a man can get a divorce simply by declaring
