On my recent visit to the brick kilns in Pakistan I saw Shahid and his brother Ilya helping their enslaved parents to make bricks. Surely it’s not right for children as young as 4 and 6 to be forced to make bricks? There are literally thousands of Christian families enslaved [...]
I wrote in April about the terrifying ordeal of the residents of Joseph Christian colony which was attacked by an inflamed Muslim mob that burnt and destroyed 178 homes, causing 258 families to flee for their lives. SLMP, one of the organisations we support in Pakistan wanted to help these [...]
I first met Chanan Masih in October 12 when this 80 year old man with a broken leg was helped into the office of VVM. He was followed by his very frail almost blind son called Shokrat. We learnt this 80 year old man and his blind son were still [...]
Imagine you live in a country where 95% of the population is from a different religion to yours. Imagine that you live in constant fear of that majority. Then one day that fear is fully realised as an inflamed mob comes into your small colony and burns and destroys 178 [...]
We all know that we cannot take money with us when we die but I read a book recently that said, "You can't take it with you but you can send it ahead." This is of course in line with the words of Jesus, "store up for yourselves treasures in [...]
We partner with Shahzad Kamran of Vast Vision Ministries to help bonded slaves working in the brick kiln factories of Punjab. We have recently funded a Christmas celebration programme for over 500 children from the brick kilns. All the different Sunday school children that we support attended and took part [...]
Chanah Masih is a very weak, crippled 80 year old man. He was literally half carried into the room followed by Shokat his very frail almost blind son. Chanah originally took a very small loan 35 years ago from a Muslim brick kiln owner who was dishonest and treated him very [...]
Thanks to your support we have been able to fund the release of Boota Masih and his family. Boota was born into bonded slavery because his father was also a bonded slave. Not only did Boota have to work in very harsh conditions ........ but he and his family were [...]
Pastor Younas Shahab serves the Lord’s people in a very poor area of Pakistan. He worked hard building a church with savings from his own labour. He was a faithful servant of God but a few months ago his faith was tested when he got seriously sick. All of a sudden [...]
