Westminster Biblical Missions to Pakistan - Summer 2000
Rev. Earl E. Pinckney - Field Secretary
Rev. Sardar Ahmed Din - Missionary
From Rev. Sardar Ahmed Din
Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank all of you who are involved in the work of the Lord in Pakistan.
We praise the Lord for putting us in the land of Pakistan. I was born and raised in the land of Pakistan. My family was very poor. If it were not for the preaching and teaching of the missionaries, I would have not have known the Lord as my personal Saviour. Were it not for donors like you, I could not have gone even to primary school. I am the product of missionary giving and missionary work in Pakistan.
I also experienced utter poverty through my childhood and youth until I was about thirty years old. I have gone through difficult circumstances which gave me and my late wife Nasim an insight to do the Lord’s bidding in the Land of Pakistan. We had seen a lot of ignorance among many who called themselves Christians. Although they called themselves Christians, they did not have a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Many of them thought themselves religious, but they did not see a strong need to be dedicated to serving the Lord Jesus Christ. They did not see any need to take the redemptive message of Christ’s cross to the lost. This made us realize that we needed a seminary for training young men to be pastors. We asked you, our brethren in the United States, and in 1974 you helped us have a seminary.
The young men who come to our seminary, the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Pakistan, know their calling to preach the Gospel. They also know their task is to put their necks on the line when the occasion arises. We have seen the results through the lives of our graduates. They have planted new churches. They are engaged in giving the true Word of God to the people of Pakistan.
We also thank you for helping us in the Bible literacy program. We have 29 centers in the villages and in the city of Lahore’s slum areas. Through this program we have trained many men, women and children to read the Word of God. This project has helped us greatly and provides some support for our pastors who administer the program. We thank you for your help.
Most churches (including missions) do not have regular Sunday schools where they could teach and train the children, the young or elderly people in the Word of God. Most of the Christian community in Pakistan is going from bad to worse. The liberal missions and liberal Christian leaders are the major contributors to destroying Biblical Christianity. These same liberals are selling the old mission properties for their own gain. These properties were built for the propagation of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the spread of the Word of God many years ago.
There has been a great need for the last 50 years in Pakistan to build schools for the illiterate and slum areas where many, many nominal Christians live. The need has been to take education to their door-step. My late wife Nasim and I were praying to the Lord for this. Then the Lord marvelously helped us to open these schools, not only provide literacy, but to teach the people the Word of God so that they would be raised up as witnesses for Jesus Christ.
As you probably know, our first school, Calvin Christian Academy, was started in 1991 with seven children. We praise the Lord that there are now over 1150 students in our first school located at the seminary property. Seventy of our children have reached the 9th and 10th grades. We are praying that next March forty of these children will appear for the government test to qualify in order to go on to college, to study as nurses, military and to prepare for employment.
We also employ three ordained pastors who take 35 minutes each day to train our young people in the Word of God. Brothers and sisters, we have seen real transformation and reformation, not only in the children, but in their families.
The Lord led us to open more campuses for Calvin Christian Academies. We have 250 children in the second academy and 150 in the third, which is our newest. So at present we have more than 1400 children studying at three campuses. Think about it. If these schools were not there, where would these children be? They have no other place to go. We know our schools have helped turn these children and their families away from the curse of drug addiction and many other evils, including idol worship.
Brothers and sisters, we are in the process of building Calvin’s Academy #3 at Murikee in the middle of four large Christian ghettos. We bought the land and have started construction on classrooms, an office and a teachers’ lounge. Presently the walls are up and are 10 ½ feet high. It is ready for the roof. We need your help for the funds to finish the project. Pray with us for the funds to provide a roof before the rains start. We also need to build the floors, doors and frames, 23 windows and frames, and provide the furnishings (chairs and tables). We need to have this finished by September of this year. When we complete this first phase of building we project 500 children enrolled. In the future, the Lord willing, we plan two more phases with a total of 2000 children enrolled. Oh brothers and sisters, do you see what a tremendous impact we can have for Christ in the land of Pakistan!
I tell you something marvelous that happened. We had no funds. The Lord melted the heart of this Muslim official when he saw what we are doing and planning to do for the poor slum area people. He promised to pay for a new gate for our property. Then he asked our teachers what we were charging our students. When they told him it only cost 37 cents per month (because we help by providing the teachers, their lunches and notebooks), he was so moved by this that he offered to pay, not only for a new gate, but a new paved road to our school! If you could see the road presently with its huge holes and deep ditches you would know what a blessing this is to us. Next he even offered to buy us gas for the school van and when he saw how small our van was he offered to sell us his own larger (26 seat) van for half the cost! $4000.00. We praise the Lord for His help from above.
Brothers and sisters, could the heart of this official be melted if you brethren did not pray for us and did not take part by your giving? We thank the Lord and we thank you for praying for us and helping us with your generous gifts for the Lord’s work in the land of Pakistan.
As for me, I have made a commitment to do the Lord’s bidding up to the last day of my life.
The Lord continue to bless you. And may the Lord continue to bless His work in Pakistan for which we are all partners.
Sardar Ahmed Din
Please send all gifts and pledges to: W.B.M., Inc. and please designate on your check “For the Lahore, Pakistan Ministry.”
Posted on June 6th, 2000 by Rev. Eric Bristley
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