Our School is up and running, at the start of a new School year. We are in the same old building, because the Landlord gave us an extension. However, it is not the best place for our school, and we really need to move our school into a new rental building. So we are still working on that project. We are needing funds up to $1,200 a month to be able to run that school in the new rental building.

Recently, there was some scary news roaming around, among the people and on the media. The TV reported news that around 600 children had been kidnapped, in the area of Punjab. As a parent with young children, that can really make you feel very scared, frightened, and nervous. However, more news came out, after that and said that some of those stories were fake. Some kids had just ran away from home, because their parents were forcing them to do child labor work, and the kids didn’t want to do it. (Most of these came from poor, uneducated families). Most kidnapping cases have been noticed in the poor areas.  In all of these frightening situations, people need encouragement and support, from Christian people, who can help them to focus on God, since Satan is using the spirit of fear to make people confused and depressed.  However, being Christian, Jesus has not given us the spirit of timidity, but of power and love (2 Tim. 1:7).  Therefore, we are trying our best to help them to overcome the spirit of fear.

Some of the women who have graduated from our Sewing Center Course have now started their own businesses!  Praise the Lord!

Currently, though, we are on a shortage of sewing machines, as half of them are broken, not because they were idle, but because they were being used.  Please pray for this need.  It would cost, overall $200, to fix all of those sewing machines.

Every week, Brittany leads a Ladies Bible Study.  There are some women that are thinking about getting baptized. You can pray for these women, so that they can come to Christ. You can pray for Margaret, Shakila, Maria, Seffra, Emily and Steffy.

Sam has been meeting with with two of his close Muslim friends, who used to be very active in Islam.  After meeting and talking with them, several times, they got to a point where they think Islam is not a logical religion.  They also believe that all religions are pretty much the same and promote hatred and discrimination.  When Sam asked them, “Did you study other religions, like Islam, devotedly?”, they said “No.”  Sam said, “Then, how can you pass that statement that all religions promote hatred, prejudice, and discrimination?”  They did not have an answer.  They also told Sam that they do not believe in God, anymore, on the basis of preceding self-conclusions.  Sam is trying to convince them that Christianity is not one of the other religions, and that it’s not about “doing,” but that it’s “done.”  The God of the Bible is not like the other God.  He is the Creator, Sustainer, the All-Powerful, All-Knowing and Holy God.  There is none like Him. Please pray for Sam’s friends, so that God will open their hearts to accept the truth.

Also, we have had interactions with a Muslim Doctor.  He is a very nice, friendly, tolerant, and an open-minded person, especially with Christians.  He travels frequently to the U.S, and all over the world, and is very complimentary to Christianity.  He has a Clinic set up, here, in Pakistan, because he has a heart for helping people, and is not worried, necessarily about money.  Sam and Brittany have had wonderful interactions with him, and we hope that he can come to Christ.  You can pray for him, as well.   

Regarding our Bible College Project, we are still raising funds for our future Bible College and permanent School Building (all to be in one building). The total amount needed to be raised (for land, construction and everything) is $600,000, as we have mentioned in the past newsletters. So far, we have raised $75,000 for that. Once we reach this goal, then we don’t need to rent a building, anymore.

We have been invited to the Wi-Ne-Ma Conference Week of Missions, in the U.S. for next July, 2017. Sam has been asked to be one of the main speakers, there. It will be July 30 – August 5, 2017. Wi-Ne-Ma is a Christian Retreat Place Center, in Cloverdale, Oregon, on the Coast. We look forward to coming there. For more information, you can go to www.winema.org.

• House Transition: We are currently busy, trying to move in our own house.  We currently don’t live in our own house, and had to consider our budget, before making this move.  Please pray for us as we work through this progress and transition, and as we try to finance everything, moving into this house.

• The School Urgent Need and Situation.  As you may have read in this Newsletter, our School is needing to move into a new building, for rent, until we have our Bible College project completed (when we will own our own land and building).  We found a building to rent, but it is going to be way more expensive than the previous rent.  Please pray about this urgent need.

• We may have a lead for two more Churches.  Please pray for these possibilities.

• We need to fix half of our sewing machines, for our Sewing Center, as they are broken.

• Pray for these people to come to Christ: Margaret, Shakila, Maria, Seffra, Emily, Steffy, Javed, Nabeel, and our Muslim friends.