Our Missions Prayer Focus of the Week is for Pakistan, we have been in contact with many pastors and workers in Pakistan over the last couple of years, but there has been in influx of requests for prayer and assistance from many Christians in this country. I have included one of the most recent letters from Pakistan for you. Please join our missions Christian Social Network to communicate and pray for the lives of these brothers and sisters in Christ.
Dear Brother John. I hope you are well and safe and in God hands. Brother I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior and start serving him, But before I was this time I was very sinful and addicted of many bad things in my life. God opened my eyes and showed me what is right and what is wrong. Since God has chosen me from that time to now, He has changed me and He made me to be more Christ like.
What I am going to write to you this is my personal experience since I started serving Lord. I have done many thing in ministry especially with Youth Ministry and people like I was, because I am very young and serving lord and heading up many responsibilities. Well I have many Muslim friends, I always go to their families and I always freely talk about Jesus Christ and they do not mind. So I can say that I am happy that I am a Pakistani and I was born here and I do not feel ashamed to be a Pakistani. But some places in Pakistan they are many pressures and many challenges for God servants. As I told you we have some ministries on location at the bricks factories where Christian people are spending their lives like Israeli did when they were in Egypt. Christian Young girls work all the day in sunshine for 150 rupee. Our Young Christian boys are working n Muslim land lords fields. Our Christian women’s are working in Muslim land lords homes.
This is not easy to start a gospel ministry at the brick factories, because the brick factory owners do not want the people living and working there to get any holidays or Sundays off, or they go away without his permission.
I still remember when we started ministry first time at the brick factories it was very dangerous for our senior pastor, A. E., they tried to shout him at night time, but thank God who saved him. I cannot forget then happen. Christian lives are not good because they do not have good jobs, the reason why they do not have good jobs because they are not able to pay the bribery to get good job or that they are Christians.
If maybe in the future God will bring you to Pakistan to share good news of Christ I will take you to visit our ministries at the bricks factories, you will amazed to see how peoples are living and where we are serving for our lord Jesus Christ in this modern day Egypt situation.
Brother, I don’t have many contacts in West because I believe our brothers and sisters in Christ who live in the West appear to believe things and people in Pakistan are nonsense, but we know what God is really doing here. I have invited limited Westerners, but they are only staying in my contact list and not come or helping us in Pakistan, but I have strong relationship with Christian churches or youth ministries who seem to be all in Asian countries.
I hope my relationship with you will last very long time. I appreciate you doing such a great work for our living and loving Lord Jesus Christ.
If you still have any questions or if you want more information regarding Pakistan and Christianity in Pakistan I am here for you.
Holding you in prayers,
A. S.
