Natasha, Huraine, and Arshaad live in the shadows of poverty and persecution in Pakistan. You could miss one detail when you read their stories (below) of persecuted Christian women whose lives are changed because of the training we help to provide.
It is subtle – yet immeasurable.
By helping one, we help a family. By helping families, we impact generations.
In a country where Christians are treated as second-class humans, at our partner’s ministry center these ladies are treated with dignity and empowered to bless their families.
Many Christian women in Pakistan cannot get a basic education. They are forced into lives of servitude – making bricks under the scorching sun or doing domestic work in homes where they can be horribly abused. Some face darker threats: being kidnapped and converted to Islam, forcibly married to an older Muslim man, and subject to a legal system that discriminates against Christians.
But there is hope.
Hidden inside a plain building in a poor neighborhood is a life-changing initiative to empower Christian women and girls with free training in sewing, computer skills, beauty techniques, and most importantly, Bible studies that deepen their faith and remind them of their worth in Christ.
These are not only skills or knowledge. They are lifelines. They offer dignity, independence, and the ability to support their families. They open doors to safer, more fulfilling work. They teach Christian women and girls something they may have never known – that they are seen, loved, and capable.
From Despair to Dignity
This is more than charity or a handout. We are lifting up Christians in a country that degrades Christians and dishonors women. When a young woman can provide for her ailing mother, when a mother can read the Bible to her children, they inspire their families, give hope to their community, and give glory to God.
Why Your Gift Matters
When we help one Christian break out from a cycle of poverty and oppression, they help others. Will you pray for one life to be transformed – and that one life will impact others?
Your support is an investment in persecuted Christians that multiplies. Your partnership tells Christians like Huraine and Natasha and Arshaad: You are worth it – and you can bless others.
Thank you for helping the one become more than one. Your gift invested in one Christian can multiply to their families and countless others they go on to help.
Together, we can equip Christians with livelihood skills and a faith that multiplies.
More Than One
In a country that persecutes Christians, a compassionate ministry is multiplying its impact. Christian Freedom International’s partners in Pakistan are lifting up women by treating them with dignity, teaching the Bible, and empowering them with job skills.
Dark Places
Christians who are persecuted often live in poverty. The combination of being female and a Christian makes it even harder to break out of poverty.
In Pakistan, Christian girls are often forced to work at a young age, some in brick yards, some as domestic workers in homes where they face verbal, physical, and sexual abuse from their employers. They may be falsely accused of theft or threatened with false charges of blasphemy to intimidate them. The struggle doesn’t end there.
Without the means to pay for safe transportation, the girls walk or rely on public transportation, which exposes them to further risk and exploitation. Christian girls live in fear of being kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to their abuser. Even when families file police reports for missing or abused daughters, they rarely see justice.
But there is hope.
Christian Freedom International (CFI) partners with local ministries to break this cycle. Through vocational training and Bible studies, Christians can gain the tools needed to build their future.
- Bible classes and prayer groups provide a safe place to grow spiritually.
- Vocational training equips illiterate and unskilled Christians with the ability to break a cycle of poverty.
- Security to work in a safe place by opening a small business in their homes.
These ministries don’t just teach skills. They create confidence to work in a safer environment or start a small business to support their families. For many, it is their first chance to work where abuse and exploitation are not a constant threat.
Huraine
When Huraine’s father passed away, she and her mother were forced to leave their home. Desperately poor and with little education, she came to a Christian vocational center supported by Christian Freedom International.
Huraine proved to be an exceptionally bright and capable student. She learned basic computer skills and regularly took part in the center’s weekly prayer meetings. Thanks to your generous support, she received free computer training and free transportation to the center.
Today, Huraine is employed at an office and helps provide for her mother. She aims for a more prestigious position by pursuing further education. She speaks highly of the ministry center because it is changing the lives of Christian women like her.
Natasha
Natasha’s family works in a brickyard where life is full of hardship and despair. Natasha, her two sisters, one brother, and their parents work long, difficult hours outdoors making bricks under stressful and often threatening conditions. To make matters more challenging, Natasha’s mother suffers from partial paralysis and chronic high blood pressure.
A turning point came when Christian Freedom International’s partner visited their community and shared a life-changing announcement: a new initiative would specifically empower young women who work in brick yards. Inspired and determined, Natasha made a promise to herself to learn new skills and strive to be the best. With God’s grace, she succeeded.
During her training at the center, Natasha sewed clothes for her family and other women in the brickyard community. Though she earned only a modest amount, her contributions had a meaningful impact – she helped pay for her mother’s medical treatment. This gave her a deep sense of purpose and pride.
With unwavering faith in Jesus Christ, she’s determined to transform her family’s future and inspire others in her community to rise above their circumstances.
Arshaad
For years, Arshaad, a woman in her forties and mother of five, felt deeply embarrassed watching children read the Bible under the guidance of their mothers while she was unable to do the same for her own.
But today she not only reads the Bible, she studies it daily with her family – a blessing she once thought was impossible. Arshaad gained the ability to read at an adult education center for impoverished Christians supported by Christian Freedom International.
With newfound confidence and faith, she and her family are striving to live by the teachings of the Bible, which she describes as a source of truth and light in their lives.
She gives full credit to God and the adult education center for equipping her to bless her family spiritually. Her journey is a powerful testimony to the transformative impact of faith and education at any stage in life.
This happens because Christians like you act.
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