The backbreaking work of a brick-maker is one of the few jobs available to Christians in Pakistan. The majority have limited educational opportunities. Their high illiteracy rate leaves them restricted mostly to menial jobs. They earn, on average, less than three dollars per day and have to make 1,000 bricks.
A grandmother holds tightly to her grandchild during a time of prayer in Pakistan.
As believers, we all give our children over to God for their safe-keeping, believing they will grow up to love and honor our God. We are all wary of the influences our western culture tries to inculcate into them. In essence, we guard the doors to their heart. But, what if you had the added “worries” of persecution? Will my child be beaten, imprisoned, raped or will they lose their job because of their faith? Pray for the strength, wisdom and boldness our brothers and sisters in Pakistan need to raise the next Godly generation.
Watching a wheat field being harvested in Pakistan brings life to the Bible’s words in relation to the harvest: “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.” The field before me was large, the workers few, hot and tired. May God help us all to enter that field and help those already there.
A note, written in Urdu, covertly passed from a Pakistani believer in northern Pakistan to a visiting American believer. “God our savior help you all. Amen.” May we never forget our brothers and sisters that meet together under the threat of persecution.
In some areas of rural Pakistan only 9% of women are literate-compared to 40% of men. Taliban edicts against educating females and cultural-Islamic obstacles have caused the alarming educational disparities. Both male and female students at this Pakistani run, SWI aided, school are given equal opportunities to learn and grow. Check out the main SWI site to learn how to offer support.
Burned Bible pages remained among the ashes at one of two Christian churches that were attacked and completely gutted in Pakistan violence.
Food aid is consumed. New clothes wear out. But love and concern continue giving. A worker with SWI comforts a little child in a village in northern Pakistan soon after the earthquake of 2005.
Pakistani villagers watch the Jesus film under a starlit sky in a closed courtyard. Photographs taken with a night-vision equipped camera.
Two SWI workers cross a swollen river in Northern Pakistan after having delivered food and basic necessities to a village on the other side. Access to the village had been cut off after the earthquake of 2005 destroyed a bridge.
Pakistani woman and child living in a tent city after the earthquake destroyed their home.
In some areas of rural Pakistan only 9% of women are literate-compared to 40% of men. Taliban edict
An American nurse, traveling with SWI, examines a Sudanese refugee living in Egypt. Photo Copyright
The backbreaking work of a brick-maker is one of the few jobs available to Christians in Pakistan.