“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without me you can do nothing.” John. 15:5
Greetings!
We praise God for His faithfulness and we are really excited to share how wonderful He has been working in and through our lives in this place – which is a battlefield in the real meaning.
First of all, we want to ask that you pray for all Christians in Pakistan as they constantly suffer for their faith. In the first week of the month of November a young man and his wife (brick making couple) were burnt alive in a brick kiln after a false accusation of ‘Blasphemy’. This news sent a very terrifying message to all Christians in the country. Pray that they may find comfort in Christ Jesus.
Church Planting
Sharing the Word of God with our small Brick Maker’s church!
This is most exciting thing to share with you that we have planted a small church which consists of 12 Christian brick makers’ families. These families were living outside the city near a brick kiln for decades. They professed to be Christians and had been living their simple faith during all this time. They remained faithful to the name of Christ and apart from it they had nothing. Nobody was reaching and teaching them about Christianity.
A group photo with brick makers!
We came to know about this group of people while distributing Free Urdu Bibles to poor Christian villagers. The Holy Spirit led us to reach these people and start teaching them. Now these bricks makers are our small congregation which is being reached weekly and we cannot explain how wonderful this experience is for these people and for our team.
Home Churches/Bible Study Groups
Bible Study group
In four different villages we have home churches where we have weekly Bible study. We are so blessed to see the lives of these people being changed because of this fellowship.Two young men from one village group Bible Study have decided to serve in the future ministry in Pakistan. We praise God for their calling and we are praying to send them to Calvary Chapel Bible College Nepal [http://www.ccbcnepal.com/] in the future.
One of our Bible study group consists of very vibrant people who once were hyper charismatic. Through simple verse by verse Bible study with us for one year the whole group has wonderful testimony to share that how powerfully and wonderfully the word of God has transformed their minds and lives.We praise God for this all and we thank you all for your prayers and support!
Planned church planting
A group of about 30 people are inspired because of our simple Expository Teaching of the word of God. A godly family has provided and renovated their extra house to be used for the new home church/Bible study in the neighboring town. We are going to start our Bible study with this group on December 4, 2014. It is amazing to see how powerful the word of God is and when people taste it once, they develop a great hunger and thirst for it. All glory to our Lord and God forever!
Women Ministry
Women Bible Study
Women’s ministry started by CC Pak a year ago has amazingly touched the hearts and lives of poor women of unreached villages. Farah started a study on “Effective Prayer Life” by Chuck Smith. This was a wonderful foundation and a good start to clear up many misconceptions the ladies had about their spiritual and prayer life. And now these groups are studying the Gospel of Matthew with Farah. There is no greater joy than to see a person accepting Jesus Christ as personal savior and submit his/her life to the Lord.
Women’s Ministry has also had a wonderful project of Sewing Center. One group of a
Sewing Center in the village
village has graduated from it and we have moved the center to a new location. There is much growth in this; the instructor has to teach these ladies in two shifts daily as the students are increasing. We have provided them 5 Sewing Machines in the past and now we have a request for 6 more Sewing Machines for the center. We want to request you to please pray for the provision of the need.
Family Corner
Our Family
Our whole family is fine by the grace of our Lord. Kids are growing so fast. Our son Joshua turned 8 in July 2014, and our daughter is in the sixth year. She recently lost her first tooth and is happy and excited about all of this
Farah and I, and Joseph and his family are all doing great! It is wonderful to be in this ministry serving The Lord in this country. We are thankful to all of you for your prayers! Thank you very much for co-laboring with us through your support. We love you and we pray for you and your families!
In Christ Jesus
Nadeem & Farah Massey
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