Pray for Pakistan and our Trip Launching from Iraq in August 2024
Please pray for our ongoing, developing efforts with believers in Pakistan.
Karla made an inaugural trip to Pakistan at the end of November, and we have three very different pastoral connections that we have been able to continue to pour into since that trip.
- One, Nostrat, features a family that fled Afghanistan and is reaching out and establishing a growing network of home churches within other Afghani Refugees.
- Another, Abner, oversees a fellowship of believers in the Fasalibad area, with outreaches into one of many brickyard slave camps.
- The final, Sajid, is nested within a community that is incredibly discriminated against in terms of work and often forced to live near the river that floods frequently during the rainy season.
Since that initial visit, SU has been able to steer and steward resources to believers on the ground to get blankets and warm clothes for the Christians who lost their homes from mob attacks last year, with food and wells for discriminated believers, and sewing businesses, shoes and a well for those trapped in brickyards as slaves. The Afghani refugees are also getting sewing machines for work that they can do within their homes, food and needed encouragement.
Sadly, as this letter goes out, more houses and churches are being burned down by mobs, this time within one of the three communities that we have connections with. Pray for the protection of these believers, and that we can channel needed resources to them, as well as God's encouragement.
Pray that we can prepare from Iraq for our trip in August to Pakistan. We will be leaving Iraq just as the Erbil begins to cool off from the dry, hot one hundred teen's to twenties weather, only to go to Pakistan when it is hot AND wet: rainy season in Pakistan averages an inch of rain a day for July and August. These weather conditions result in increased skin ailments and assorted medical problems, making it a perfect albeit soaking time to go. May God pour out his Living Water that lasts forever as we encourage and help the Pakistani and Afghani believers, both medically and spiritually. Please pray for us as we prepare for this trip that will launch from Iraq, that God will give us wisdom as well as be preparing their and our hearts for the time we are there. Unless the Lord builds the house, we labor in vain. Psalm 127:1