Me:  Howdy Prodigal!  What are you doing?  Just leaving my friend’s house.

Prodigal:  They look like they have a nice house, what a blessing that is.

Me:  Yes, it really is a nice place!  I guess sometimes we forget how much we have.  Which reminds me of some others who don’t have a lot.

 

Majed El Shafie writes in his book Freedom Fighter a story about Charles Colony

 

Charles Colony is typical of the living situation facing minorities in many areas of Pakistan.  The typical Christian community here consists of “houses” that are actually holes dug in the ground with bricks–no mortar–stacked around the hole on three sides with a ragged old tarp as a roof for protection from rain, heat, debris.  The only water–stagnant–is held in a dirty cement trough that serves about 100 families.  There is no food, no clean water, no school for the children–no dignity.  And the only reason for these conditions–the families are Christians.

The only way out of these modern-day slave camps is to convert to Islam or sell a kidney.

Wow,  imagine knowing your whole life would be about having to deal with these conditions just because you followed Christ!  Lets just pray for these people right now of Charles Colony for their courage and their faithfulness to Jesus.

 

Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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