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\"05-28-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Howdy Prodigal!\u00a0 What are you doing?\u00a0 Just leaving my friend’s house.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 They look like they have a nice house, what a blessing that is.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Yes, it really is a nice place!\u00a0 I guess sometimes we forget how much we have.\u00a0 Which reminds me of some others who don’t have a lot.<\/p>\n

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Majed El Shafie writes in his book Freedom Fighter a story about Charles Colony<\/p>\n

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Charles Colony is typical of the living situation facing minorities in many areas of Pakistan.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The only water–stagnant–is held in a dirty cement trough that serves about 100 families.\u00a0 There is no food, no clean water, no school for the children–no dignity.\u00a0 And the only reason for these conditions–the families are Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only way out of these modern-day slave camps is to convert to Islam or sell a kidney.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow,\u00a0 imagine knowing your whole life would be about having to deal with these conditions just because you followed Christ!\u00a0 Lets just pray for these people right now of Charles Colony for their courage and their faithfulness to Jesus.<\/p>\n

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Romans 8:35<\/p>\n

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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