It's different here.

We descend from Armenian Pentecostals who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s due to prophetic guidance. Demos Shakarian’s book, The Happiest People on Earth, recounts the story of Efim, an illiterate boy from Kara Kala, Armenia. In the mid-1800s, Efim was given a prophetic vision and wrote detailed warnings and directions on paper for seven days. His parents took the writings to the village elders - the warnings predicted a horrific event in Armenia, involving the brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of people, and urged them to escape to the west coast of the U.S. as depicted in the map. The villagers discussed the writings, but when decades passed without any word, they forgot about the visions. However, a few years after the turn of the century, Efim, now an older man, declared that the time had come to heed the prophecy. Believing families hurriedly packed their belongings and fled, while neighbors laughed and jeered. Years later, in 1914, the Muslim Turks initiated a brutal “ethnic cleansing” in Armenia, driving two-thirds of the population out. Over a million Armenians, including all of Kara Kala’s inhabitants, died in these happenings. 

Pastor Danny’s great-grandparents, among those villagers who heeded the prophetic warning and direction, obediently traveled to Southern California. Leaving everything behind, they were strengthened, preserved, and prospered as prophesied. Settling in East Los Angeles, they played a key part in God’s Spirit pouring out in the United States through the 1906 Azusa Street revival. They faithfully observed God’s way of life, trusting Him unwaveringly, giving generously, and attending Sabbath meetings, camp meetings, and revivals with anticipation and joy at God’s miracles. God used this heritage, and they were instrumental in bringing Holy Spirit revival throughout the United States in the middle and later decades of the 20th century. 

A young man named Sam Lalaian, Pastor Danny's father, grew up amidst this incredible Holy Spirit awakening. He came to Georgia through prophetic direction and married the daughter of a local Atlanta pastor. They settled in Loganville in 1971, buying a rural farm. Shortly after, Sam began his prophetic ministry at the urging of his prophet, Aram Mushegan, a seer prophet and relative. After God used Pastor Sam to work wonders and speak countless prophetic words during the 1980s and early 1990s in a prodigious prophetic ministry, in 1992, Pastor Sam and his wife, Becky, heeded God’s direction to found a new ministry with his family, including Pastor Danny  and Julie - they named it “The Dwelling Place,” a dream word Becky received, symbolizing a place where God and man would meet. Despite all the unknowns, Pastor Sam was promised by the Lord that this small beginning would fulfill numerous promises regarding their heritage. The family worked tirelessly for decades, incubating God’s powerful promises until their fulfillment - the City On A Hill, calling of the Remnant, and the building of a holy exclusive Ark today!