Pakistan mission highlights and prayer needs
Just the beginning. Sarfraz and I have the next two families in greatest need. We had an incredible strategic meeting this morning to fine tune process, funding, accountability and follow up plans. Have not had this much fire since launching Nepal with Amho and Dinesh. All years of training and preparation for a freedom discipleship movement across South Asia and spilling out to Middle East Arabic and islam|c nations.
1. Sarfraz wants us to rescue a family with a beautiful young teenage girl that is being trafficked all the time. Her family is afraid of forced marriage to an older Muslim man … produce children for that man and be discarded. (#3 family brick slave family)
2. The next will be the family that I met and mentioned on Ty’s post. Father has lost an arm. Young children and mom forced to meet his quota of 1000 bricks per day, 5/6 days a week. This is a true turning point for out ministry in Pakistan … with simple DBJ training freedom in Christ as well as freedom from actually slavery is coming to historical Christian slavery… in the very region Christianity first came to Pakistan. Unbelievable what we have seen God do in one week. Hundreds of families will be delivered in near future. Unspeakable joy. Amy our entire family may be calked to this new direction.
Some new directions:
A. As we post Sarfraz ask that we blot out faces. We will keep exact locations under wraps, lest the sex traffickers come after the young ones.
2. Begin praying even not for an additional $800 per family that will purchase the family the trishaw … will provide both family transportation and the best income we could set them up in with their skill set.
3. Pray for Ed and Cass. I have ask them to head up fund raising for building the seven houses at the burned out Christian villages yet to be constructed… families still living in tents. These newer converts have been evangelised and even now being Discipled DBJ ministry. Cass and I spent three day training their village leader. The cost for each house is $1200 and are beautiful in their own way, practical and built for desert living. A 200 sq ft mansion compared to the family of eight children living in a make shift tent the size of a queen bed for your comparison. I can see this develop into a Runyan legacy ministry. I can picture Jon, Tyler, Amber and Paul getting invoked at some level. Sarfraz is also looking to establish a safe house for those young rescued from the sex trafficking especially. This could be built next to the orphanage Sarfraz/ Gawahi (English ‘Witness’ Ministry) that is 15 kilometres from town and has walls with razor wire, security cameras and locked gates for security. Solar electricity as well as diesel generator… all for safety for the 48 children now there full time with house parents. They are bused to Christian school like in Nepal. Sarfraz ministry has been given three acres for this emerging ministry center. One acre reserved for self sustaining garden, goats and chickens. I was absolutely blown away by this faculty. He has lost his main donor on this project … but still faithing it through every month. If the kids are fed more than once a day, clothing, medical and school cost the entire project runs for $2200 per month. Right at $50 per child per month. Amazing. By building his own beautiful facility from scratch there are no rent payments. If you were to ask Sarfraz why he has built it so secure and beautiful… he said “ what if my girls were here”…. As he has come close to death a few times. His girls were almost kidnapped by r@dIcal Mu$lim$ three years ago when they came to America running in the middle of the night . This touched my ❤️ very deeply thinking about my own girls.
I will begin posting all segments of this mission trip soon. The reason Sarfraz felt specifically called to this project was when his friends church in a rad area was blown up on Easter Sunday 2018 and many children left as true orphans. Those were the first ones taken in as he opened the facility full time about a year ago.
CEIFA HAS PROVIDED TWO MONTHS OF SUPPORT IN THIS LAST YEAR. After visiting this trip I wish we could do more. This may be why God is calling me to podcast, website and YouTube channel development. A vision I have never had before … old dog learning new ways. I believe my children’s generation is called to finally be the church without excuses in these area of hunger, suffering and yet miraculously opened doors.
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