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        The Story of Jamil in Pakistan
My Name is Jamil Thomas and I am 37, Christian and have studied the computer sciences and done Master’s in Pakistan Studies. I am happily married and father of three daughters Sarah 8, Iyra 6 and Joha 4. All are in school thanks God.

To be a Christian is not easy in Pakistan. I have been facing the discrimination, hate, religious persecution since my childhood. When I was in school the teachers, students and other village fellows called us “Easi” means a Christian and it is called by hate or to show hate that how much Muslims hate Christians. Muslims hate a lot and they do not like even to touch a Christian or to eat or sit with them. I face this hate from school level to college and university. Daily I have many offers by the Muslims to convert to Islam and still it is the situation is same. Whenever someone knows that I am a Christian, they start preaching of Islam and offer  to become Muslim.  Islamiyat is a compulsory subject from grade one to University level and anyone did not pass the Exams of Islamiyat he/she will not promoted to the next class. So, I have to study Islam too.

When I was in college and doing my graduation, there was huge pressure on me from Muslims to convert to Islam. My life was in danger and teachers, students and everyone who knows me want me to study Islam and the consequence is I started to study Islam and Quran. Things seems very good to me. I like the idea behind their prayers and other things which were in Islam or people telling me seems very good and impressive. I decided to become a Muslim when I was 22. I was just thinking what my parents would think or other people would think about me. There was no one who could teach me about Christianity, Bible or Bible Faith. One day, at night when I was in the decision making process, one thing clicked that I have studied Quran, Islam and its teachings, but I have not studied Bible. The same time I got up and start studying my Bible. I started from Genesis and in fifteen days I completed the Bible. Bible touched my heart, I started again and finished in next fifteen days. I read again and again and in three months I read it eight time. The verses clicked me and I done the comparative studies on Bible and Quran. In 1996, I do not have much helping resources to understand more about Christianity and Gospel. No internet was there, no books was available in a Muslim country, no Christian Libraries, I always in search of more knowledge of Bible and its teachings. Gradually, I recognized that why Jesus Christ laid down His life for us, who am I. It takes 8 years to me understand about Jesus and Gospel. Eight years to satisfy my inner being.

In Pakistan or its villages Christian are not literate, they are poor, they are slaves to the Muslims and living under miserable conditions and do not have access to basic needs of life. More than 98% Christians in these areas are illiterate and they are engaged in low ranks jobs, like servants of the Muslims but low rank servants, like to clean their houses, to clean the garbage, to take care of the livestock etc, many are sanitary workers, brick kiln workers, carpet industry  etc. They are so poor they do not exists in any class of the community and they never get attention towards their problems by the corrupt government or any other organization. Their children are slaves to the same masters from many generations and living under same and worst conditions from many decades.

I have been raised in these conditions, God has special hands on me that I did my schooling, college and University facing all these challenges.  I came back to my town Toba Tek Singh and started a job in 2004.  With the help and encouragement of  my Christian and like minded friends we formed a group to uplift the people in Toba Tek Singh and its surrounding outreach villages. We arranged the awareness programs among the Christian community and other deprived communities to send their children to schools. We start giving awareness regarding education. We told them if you are not sending your children to schools means you are producing more cheap laborers for your masters and they never want you to send your children to schools.

Secondly, we start preaching our people about Bible and the message of Lord Jesus Christ, these people never saw the Bible and totally unaware of the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and we decide to provide them a free copy of Holy Bible. we showed them the Jesus movie and other Biblical stories so they can be aware of teachings of Bible. Conditions were so worst that they were not aware to celebrate the Christmas and mostly Christians did not get a holiday from their masters and they were not allowed to pray.

Christians girls were raped everyday and force conversion to Islam is very much common. Aim4Faith Ministries took stand on this issue and raised awareness among people and fighting for their cause. 

Later on, we registered our group as name of Aim4Faith Ministries in 2008 with local and provincial government and it is working from that day to eradicate poverty, to educate the poor fellows, to give them heath awareness. It also work for the poor and needy to give their fundamental rights, human rights and fought for them in many cases.

From that day  Aim4Faith Ministries reached to more than 40,000 people.  God has blessed us to reach the folks with these blessings,

– Free Distribution of Urdu Bibles

– Free Distribution of Audio Bible CD’s in Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi Languages

– Recording the Christian Material in audio and video formats

– Free Distribution and  Posting by mail the Bible based literature and comic books

– Education of the poor and needy children

– Uplifting the Youth and Women

– Helping and encouraging the Persecuted Christians

That is what God has used me for His work so far. People badly need a Church and church leaders here who can nourish them spiritually as well. Please keep things in your prayers that May God listen their prayers  provide them resources. It is the situation of one District or few villages. There are many many villages and areas in Pakistan where people are living in miserable conditions and they are waiting the leaders to come.

Thank you