Extreme Cold in Pakistan results in 130 deaths!

FREEZING WINDS GRIP PAKISTAN AS WINTER COLD INTENSIFIES!

Co-Laborer

We have three mission stations in Pakistan. One in Karachi and two near Lahore.

From these stations over 50,000 Christians are impacted weekly in small and medium sized congregations! This is not counting prisons!

We directly minister to 50 prisons through one team alone. The entire prison ministry visits an average of 70-80 prisons monthly. Each prison has from 45-70 families.

As we were reading Christmas reports on Sunday, news came about the extreme cold!

It was so cold that the children at My Father's House stayed in bed!

I could not help but think of all the children and families we had just blessed in the brick maker prisons. They were so happy and thankful for our Christmas gifts. NOW, they are facing the painful grip of frigid winds coming from the mountains. News reports say 130 people have died in just days.

We know from a lot of experience what happens if we don't do something to help the families. They are strong people, due to years of continuous hard labor, but the little ones suffer , the newborns, sick , and especially the elderly .

They can't sleep all night! They try to find bags to cover themselves and they huddle together in a corner. Then they must get up early for work. If they have just one large blanket, a few family members can cover up.

So here am I Lord, ready to visit you in prison again.

Scripture says , " Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" Matt. 6:21. I could not rest until we sent enough funds to help two entire small prisons.

Like Paul the apostle who had the care of all the churches, I don't go long without thinking and caring for these prisons. They are family.

If we don't care for them, no one else will.

First they hear a gospel message and many come to Christ during the meetings. Then the blankets are distributed!

As you will read in the newsletter link below, little Elijah died because he did not have a blanket. Now his mother, on the right, is helping with blanket distributions!

FIRST OF ALL, WE NEED PRAYER COVERING!

We sent our teams out in the cold to buy blankets and I asked them to have crusades also. Our director, Brother Saimon moved quickly. We are so thankful for them!

Secondly, we want to reach as many prisons as possible.

You see, not only are we saving lives, we are positioning souls for the gospel. When hard times come, they will NEVER forget our love because we helped them. We will also see a great harvest of souls. In missions, we see this as the door of opportunity.

Even a child can become involved. These blankets cost only $ 5.50 .

They are well made , large , and warm!

Would you help one, two, or more families?

Maybe you would love to help TEN FAMILIES with a $55 love gift.

Helping the helpless,

John & Teresa Musser

P.S. Due to the urgency of this act of God's love compelling us to move quickly, your gifts will be monitored DAILY and when we have enough to distribute blankets in one prison, we will send the funds. $500 allowed us to help two prisons . We have helped a small prison for as little as $250. ONE BLANKET PER FAMILY!

How would you like to help an ENTIRE PRISON?

" I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me,

I was in prison and you came to me ...‘Lord, when did we see you...sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’"

Matthew 25:36- 40

WE NEED YOUR PRAYER COVERING AS WE GO BACK TO PRISONS THIS WEEK.

NOT FOR TRIBAL CHRISTMAS, BUT TO SAVE LIVES FROM THE COLD WINTER NIGHTS.

PLEASE COVER THESE PROJECTS IN PRAYER

CLICK HERE TO READ OUR POSTCARD ON BLANKETS OF LOVE

CLICK HERE TO READ OUR UPCOMING NEWSLETTER ON BLANKETS OF LOVE

NEWS FLASH.....

This just came in as we were preparing this email! Our native director writes...

" I want to thank you and GRM for helping us to get these brick maker slave families some blankets. The weather is very cold and it has broke the record of 27 years. On the north side of Pakistan we have snow falling and thousands of people are trapped and our army is helping them get out of those areas by helicopters.

We have facilities with gas and most of us have heaters in our homes and yet we feel cold, so we were just wondering how hard it is for the slave families who are forced to get up at 4 am in the morning and set the mud to make bricks and then forced to make bricks, especially the children when many of them do not even have shoes .

But thank you and GRM for helping us to get these families blankets when it is needed most! Praise God we were able to buy 78 blankets and we gave away these blankets at two different brick kiln factories to all the families! They all were so thankful and happy to grab one for them and their families!"