Pakistan: Brickmakers
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. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Pakistan: Your Children and their Future
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, [...]
Pakistan: The Harvest
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. Photo [...]
Pakistan: Secret Note
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. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Pakistan: Education for Females
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 [...]
Pakistan: Ashes
Burned Bible pages remained among the ashes at one of two Christian churches that were attacked and completely gutted in Pakistan violence. Persecuted by Gary S. Chapman | BOOK INFO The persecuted often suffer in silence, not knowing if anyone or even God cares for them. This book project on the persecuted church in Pakistan [...]
Pakistan: Just Being There
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. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Pakistan: Jesus Film
Pakistani villagers watch the Jesus film under a starlit sky in a closed courtyard. Photographs taken with a night-vision equipped camera. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Pakistan: River Crossing
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. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Pakistan: Tent City
Pakistani woman and child living in a tent city after the earthquake destroyed their home. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Egypt: Medical Outreach
An American nurse, traveling with SWI, examines a Sudanese refugee living in Egypt. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Ethiopia: Benji
Benji endured over three years in Eritrean jails, beaten and tortured to deny his Christian faith. He recently escaped, walking hundreds of kilometers to relative safety in Ethiopia. SWI is currently on the ground helping to stabilize his current situation. Updates will follow soon. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Pakistan: Brickmaker
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. Male, 75 years old, brick-maker. For $2.60 per day, this laborer must produce 1,000 bricks. To meet his quota of bricks, [...]
Pakistan: Orphans
A young Pakistani girl lifts her hands in worship. For her protection, her identity is hidden by the blurring of the photo. She was orphaned by the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and taken in by a Christian woman living in the north. Recently, the home they were living in was set ablaze as an act [...]
Pakistan: Help from Muslim neighbors
Early in August, 2009, angry mobs led by extremist Muslims looted and torched most of the Christian colony in Gojra and nearby Korian village. Trumped up charges of blasphemy against the Koran were used to incite Muslims to target their Christian neighbors. This Muslim boy holds a stack of Bibles that his father rescued from one [...]
Kenya: Waiting in Line
Men wait in line for food at IDP camp in Kenya following post election violence. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Pakistan: Prayer
Female, 59 years old, matriarch. “Every step we take in this life we have to take care growing up around Muslims. They have kept us off-balance, behind them. They never let us come alongside them. Pray for our coming generation that they can live in peace.” She is the matriarch of the family, a pillar [...]
Pakistan: Waiting for Food Aid
This Pakistani man waited long hours in line for food aid, but the supplies ran out before he was able to receive any. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Pakistan: Earthquake Assistance
A worker from SWI delivers food in Kaghan, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan six months after the original quake in 2006. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Egypt: Sudanese Refugee
Sudanese refuge living in Cairo, Egypt that was helped during a recent medical outreach by SWI. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Egypt: Sudanese Refugee
An American nurse examines the vision of a Sudanese refugee living in Cairo, Egypt. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman
Egypt: Doc Charlie
Doc Charlie is 75+ years old and after 50 years of active medical work he has not settled into the typical life of ease and retirement. Recently he chose to go to Cairo, Egypt to provide healthcare for over 2,300 Sudanese refugee children. Many thousands of Sudanese have fled their country and the war that [...]
Pakistan: Tent Home
This tent was home to this Pakistani family for months after the 2005 earthquake that killed more than 80,000 people. Photo Copyright ©Gary S. Chapman