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Growing in the Faith

  • Beverly Van Kampen
  • 6 days ago

Khairpur

Reach the Nations has had a church established in Khairpur for a number of years now. The leased building there serves as a central point for teaching and preaching. Going out from this center, Shakeel and Rustam reach into the villages around Khairpur, and the Gospel is reaching more and more people.

Shakeel and Rustam speak of challenges in these areas including forced conversion to the majority religion and arranged marriages with very young girls. Shakeel has asked for prayers for those who are facing these challenges.


The RTN team is encouraging the Christians in the Khairpur area to carry what they are learning as they go to their villages and into the workplace each day.


Kotri

Shakeel says, "In Kotri we are building good connections with local tribal people, and they are welcoming us and listening to the Word of God."

He is also training another believer whose name is Majeed. Majeed has been joining Shakeel in the village ministry around Kotri and Hyderabad.


Hyderabad

Shakeel and his wife host a small group meeting in their home in Hyderabad. The group meets weekly to study the Heidelberg Catechism in order to further understand their faith as they become more able to share it with others.



You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. - Matthew 5:14-16



 
 
 

Sunday School in Sanghar

  • Beverly Van Kampen
  • Apr 13

Shahzaib and his wife, Anita, have started a Sunday School in the church they have established in Sanghar. As you can see, the children are participating enthusiastically.

Anita is shown above as she teaches the older children in their Sunday School class.

They also have a prayer ministry in the area surrounding Shanghar, usually meeting in homes as you see here. The pictures below show both Shahzaib and Anita praying for specific requests for those who are in attendance.

Please pray for the people of Sanghar as this church grows. And pray for the children who are now learning the teaching of the Bible in ways they can understand.


Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6



 
 
 

From Student to Teacher

  • Beverly Van Kampen
  • Apr 6

Updated: Apr 7


In our last post, we told you about Covenant Leadership Training Institute and Reach the Nations' partnership with CLTI in training Pakistani men for ministry in their country. Gary Finkbeiner, president of RTN, is a regular teacher at CLTI, and you read about that in his post last week.


The picture above shows the most recent graduating class from CLTI's Karachi campus. Seated on the left is Shakeel, a RTN pastor, evangelist, and leader. He is in this photo not as a student, but as a teacher. Shakeel was a CLTI student himself when there was no Karachi campus, and he had to go to Zambia for several months of training, leaving his new wife at home in Hyderabad.


Now Shakeel, in addition to his pastoral and church planting responsibilities in Sindh, teaches regularly at CLTI.

A couple of weeks ago, Gary was scheduled to teach a class, but, because of the wars in the Mideast, was not able to travel to Karachi to teach the class in person. So, he taught each day from his home in the U.S. and Shakeel served as his translator.

Unfortunately for Gary, he had to teach from midnight to 4 a.m. (EDT) in order to fit the time frame of the courses in Pakistan! But Shakeel stood in for Gary, translating the teaching and interacting with the students.

And here is Shakeel (on the far left) with the graduates at their celebration at Hawksbay Sea Side near Karachi.


Shakeel is a good example of the goal of RTN to train future leaders. He underwent his training years ago and now is a capable leader of the RTN ministry in Sindh as well as carrying many responsibilities at his home church and in CLTI.


Please pray for Shakeel, his family, and his various roles in spreading the Gospel message in Pakistan and in training future church leaders.


"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” – Galatians 2:20





 
 
 
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