Pakistan Relief Project for Swat Valley and Waziristan Refugees

Our goal is to raise $40,000 to send two containers full of food and supplies to these refugees.

UPDATE: WE JUST SENT THE FIRST CONTAINER IN FEBRUARY, 2010. ONE MORE TO GO! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HAS DONATED TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE. GREAT IS YOUR REWARD!

October, 2010

Picture yourself, your spouse and your children packing up all your possessions and traveling miles and miles by foot or vehicle just trying to keep your family alive. Now picture having to live in a refugee camp in a tent for an undetermined amount of time with little to no food, water, or supplies available to you. This is what is happening at this moment in Pakistan. There are approximately 3 million displaced refugees in the Swat Valley and the Waziristan regions. These are the Northwest regions in Pakistan. Officials say many of these people will not be able to return to their homes until March of 2010. The UN warns that Swat Valley could be the worst refugee crisis since Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands of people have been sheltering in refugee camps since fleeing their homes. Most others are literally squeezed into the homes of friends or relatives, with as many as 85 people in one house. My mind can't even comprehend that.

GMA is partnering with Interfaith Council for Peace & Harmony in Lahore, Pakistan to help bring relief in the midst of dire circumstances to these refugees. At this time, it is impossible for non-Muslim relief organizations to enter the Swat Valley or the Waziristan area, where mostly women and children have been displaced in the past few weeks due to the unrest in this nation in great turmoil. The Mualana, who Leif has built a relationship with over the last 13 years, is the Director of Interfaith Council for Peace and Harmony and his organization will take in food, tents, medicine, as well as Christian printed materials in the name of Jesus that we provide him. He has the elite police force of Pakistan at his disposable as to ensure all the relief goods arrive safely.

There are moments in life when God's voice is so loud it is impossible to hear anything else. This is one of those times. Since returning from Pakistan in October our minds are overwhelmed, but our spirits are soaring because of all the Kingdom Gates Father God is opening to us in Pakistan and around the world.

Right now there is a Kairos moment taking place over the nation of Pakistan and we have an opportunity to make a HUGE impact on the descendants of Ishmael and show them the love of the Father who gave his Son for them. Did you know that Ishmael means "GOD HEARS?" The Father, who is the author of love, hears the cries of his sons and daughters in exile. We too hear the cries and we will respond in love with tangible expressions of the love of the Father.

PLEASE PARTNER WITH US AS WE BRING JESUS AND AID RELIEF TO THOSE WHO ARE DESPERATELY IN NEED!

"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you pakistan girl in line for foodgave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' " Matthew 25:34-40

Let us be people of love who will respond to the ones who are thirsty and hungry and give them LIVING WATER and THE BREAD OF LIFE so they will thirst and hunger no more!

Refugees evacuating.

Pakistan family on the road

Families fleeing the war zone. Children waiting for food at refugee camp.