[{"content":"Dear Friends and family,\nGreetings, we hope that you are all doing well by the grace of God. Through this update we want to share a special need and want to request you to help us with that as Lord leads you. I am sorry that it is going to be a little long update. About 8 years before we planted a church in a village, but we did not have any proper place for meetings. We started our church meetings in a tent.\nIMG\\_1146-1 IMG\\_1186 IMG\\_1439 IMG\\_1500 Then a family offered a place for us for regular gathering, and God provided funds to us to build an iron roofed structure for the church meetings. It was really amazing, and we praise God that for many years we have been having church meetings over there.\nIMG\\_4933 01 03 02 Last year the family that owned that piece of land asked us to arrange something else, we prayed, and we started looking for a place where we could have a reasonable proper church building. We wanted to have piece of land in the Christian residential area so that majority religion may not have objection about church building there. Finally, God provide a small piece of land which was much like a deep pit, and we purchased it. We needed to put much dirt in this place in order to raise it to the street level, we had some funds, so we started the basic work to lay the foundations and raise ground level.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_ac56606d WhatsApp Image 2024-02-19 at 10.30.13\\_f79dbe0f 22 28 26 36 41 43 People of this village are really excited for this all because they were not able to have a church building for last many generations, and they were even not going to have one soon in future by themselves. They come to this place for church services though it is an open place without any shelter in this sever cold weather. So, we praise God with them at this place!\n04 01 02 03 All foundational work is done; we need to complete the building on it. The weather is getting cold, and no sooner it will be extremely cold and foggy. The congregation still comes for the meeting at this place in spite of any situation. We praise God for all that is accomplished so far, and we want to request you to please join us in prayers for the further provision to complete this church building soon. if you have any questions, or want to know more about this church building project, please write us at massey@calvarypakistan.com\nAll that we were able to complete so far is answer of many prayers, and the result of your love, care and generous support. We firmly believe that as we all will bow down to our God in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ for giving Him all glory through this village church building and usage of the building for prayers, worship, teaching and trainings, He will provide graciously.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_44f52cdc WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_caa57847 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_f0e30fb5 We want to thank you once again for your all love, care, prayers and support. If Lord leads you to stand with us for this project, please go to this link to support: Give | MASSEY FAMILY\nWe pray for you and your families, God bless you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2025/11/03/village-church-building/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, we hope that you are all doing well by the grace of God. Through this update we want to share a special need and want to request you to help us with that as Lord leads you. I am sorry that it is going to be a little long update. About 8 years before we planted a church in a village, but we did not have any proper place for meetings. We started our church meetings in a tent.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Village Church Building"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.\u0026rdquo; __Ps. 34:18\nDear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,\nWe want to take a moment to share with you the current situation in Pakistan. Over the past weeks, severe flooding has struck much of our country, leaving countless families devastated. Entire villages have been submerged, roads have been washed away, and homes have collapsed under the force of the water. The scale of destruction has been overwhelming, and the suffering of the people is immense.\nBy the grace of God, our area has been spared from the worst of the flooding, and we are safe. We are deeply grateful for His protection and mercy in keeping us from harm. Yet, our hearts are heavy as we look at the suffering all around us. While we are safe, so many of our fellow Pakistanis are in urgent need of help. Families have lost their homes, their belongings, and in some cases, even their loved ones.\nc3658ef0-8f94-11f0-84c8-99de564f0440 Flash-floods-Pakistan-Guardian-Picture-03-1024x713 Flood-in-Pakistan\\_521 The greatest needs right now are very practical. People are struggling to find food, clean water, and shelter. Many are living in temporary camps, exposed to the elements, and diseases are beginning to spread due to stagnant water and poor sanitation. Children are particularly vulnerable in these circumstances, and parents are desperate to provide for them. The needs are vast and urgent—food, housing, clothing, and medicine are all in short supply.\nIn the face of such devastation, we are reminded that as followers of Christ, we are called to be His hands and feet in times of need. The local church is already mobilizing to respond, and ministries are seeking ways to provide relief. It is a challenging task, but it is also a powerful opportunity to show the love of Jesus in practical and tangible ways to those who are hurting and without hope.\nWe humbly ask for your prayers—for those who are suffering, that they would find comfort and hope in the Lord. Please also pray for wisdom and strength for those who are serving on the frontlines of relief efforts. And if God puts it on your heart, we encourage you to consider supporting the relief work being done here. Every gift, no matter the size, can help provide food, shelter, and care for those who are in desperate need.\nWe trust in the faithfulness of our God, who promises never to leave nor forsake His people. Even in the midst of disaster, we believe He is at work—bringing His comfort, drawing hearts to Himself, and glorifying His name. Thank you for standing with us in prayer and in support. Together, we can be a light in this time of great darkness.\nWe pray for you and your families, please keep us in your prayers. God bless you.\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2025/09/15/flooding-in-pakistan-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.\u0026rdquo;                                                                                                                                                                            __Ps. 34:18\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe want to take a moment to share with you the current situation in Pakistan. Over the past \u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2025/09/3333333.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2025/09/3333333-300x177.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e weeks, severe flooding has struck much of our country, leaving countless families devastated. Entire villages have been submerged, roads have been washed away, and homes have collapsed under the force of the water. The scale of destruction has been overwhelming, and the suffering of the people is immense.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Flooding in Pakistan"},{"content":"“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” — Isaiah 43:19\nDear Friends and the family,\nDear Friends and family,\nMany blessings to you all, we all are doing good, and we hope and pray that you are also find by God\u0026rsquo;s grace. It\u0026rsquo;s been a while since we could share with you about tall the amazing things God has been doing in Pakistan through Calvary Chapel Mission. My father was not well, he underwent a surgery which was though quite minor, but, since he is about 85 years old, that\u0026rsquo;s why few things made us worried. He is recovering very fast from that now; we praise God for that.\nIntense Flooding\nDuring last two months our hearts are heavy as we witness the intense flooding across many parts of Pakistan, where countless families have lost their homes, livelihoods, and even loved ones. The devastation has left entire communities in deep suffering, and we grieve with them in their pain. We ask you, dear brothers and sisters, to please keep these afflicted people in your earnest prayers, that God may grant them comfort, provision, and hope. As a church, we also desire to stand with them in tangible ways, seeking to support and extend Christ’s love to those most affected in this difficult time. Please keep this need also in your prayers.\nCEAS Teaching Platform\nWe are also thankful to share about the CEAS Teaching Forum, where we have been\n\\_MG\\_2148 \\_MG\\_2684 \\_MG\\_2698 developing different study courses in Urdu to equip believers with a strong foundation of faith. These courses will soon be made available through our upcoming website www.ceaspak.org, enabling us to educate and encourage thousands of Urdu-speaking people both in Pakistan and around the world. By God’s grace, we also plan to begin certificate programs through this platform, providing structured learning opportunities for those who desire deeper training in Christian apologetics and discipleship. Please keep this initiative in your prayers, that it may bear much fruit for God’s kingdom.\nMinistry in the Desert\nIn our Desert Mission Project, we rejoice in how the Lord is working through the lives of local believers. By God’s grace, we have been able to train some brothers in that region, and one of them, Marqas (meaning Mark), is a wonderful brother in Christ who is faithfully serving alongside us. With his help and through regular outreach activities, we are now reaching thousands of Hindu people living in the desert areas with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are deeply thankful to our church family for your faithful prayers and support, which make these outreach missions possible.\nWhatsApp Image 2025-08-11 at 21.50.44\\_20dc9fb9 WhatsApp Image 2025-08-11 at 21.51.49\\_aad02933 WhatsApp Image 2025-05-27 at 21.41.52\\_11108664 Women Ministry\nOur Women’s Ministry is also growing well, and we praise God for the hunger among sisters in Christ to gather, learn, and serve. At present, women in the desert area are meeting for fellowship and the sewing center in one small house, which is no longer sufficient for the growing number of participants. We are therefore praying and seeking financial support to build a dedicated room/hall for this ministry, so that more women can be discipled and equipped. In addition, my wife Farah is prayerfully working on establishing a Christian Counselling Center to serve women and families with biblical guidance and care. We humbly ask you to keep both of these important projects in your prayers.\nWe are thankful to you all for the prayers and support, please continue to stand with us in this ministry so that we many continue to reach the unreached here in Pakistan. God bless you.\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2025/08/19/streams-in-the-desert/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and \u003cstrong\u003erivers in the desert\u003c/strong\u003e.”\u003c/em\u003e\n— \u003cstrong\u003eIsaiah 43:19\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and the family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany blessings to you all, we all are doing good, and we hope and pray that you are also find by God\u0026rsquo;s grace. It\u0026rsquo;s been a while since we could share with you about tall the amazing things God has been doing in Pakistan through Calvary Chapel Mission. My father was not well, he underwent a surgery which was though quite minor, but, since he is about 85 years old, that\u0026rsquo;s why few things made us worried. He is recovering very fast from that now; we praise God for that.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Streams in the Desert"},{"content":"Dear Friends and family,\nGreetings, we hope and pray that you are doing good. We are fine by the grace of God. We were impatiently waiting for this special event to take place, and finally God made it possible. We praise God for that and today we are really excited to share this with you also. We believe that your hearts will be blessed, and your spirits will be refreshed with joy and grace of God.\nYou have been listening from us about the brick layers for a long time. Some very poor families of believer who live outside of the towns and villages. They are not part of the society in a way, their children were not able to go to school and each family was slave to brick kiln owner because of the debt that they could never pay. Therefore, they were suffering from generation to generation.\n10 11 12 17 18 20 They have always been so faithful to their Lord that in spite of many offers to deny Christ for the sake of material gains, they always stood firm.\n23 02 22 13 They were really surviving hardly, and every day of their life has been miserable. We want to thank you for praying with us as we were trying to help these precious souls and were working to help them set free from the bondage of the debt. God has made this possible and finally many of the families of this group are free, their debt has been paid, and they are going to be moved in the city area. they will be helped to start some small business to support their families. We believe that this is answer to prayers. God be glorified!\n03 04 05 06 08 09 15 16 24 25 Thank you very much for the prayers, please keep these people, and our team in your prayers, God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2025/03/20/finally-set-free/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, we hope and pray that you are doing good. We are fine by the grace of God. We were impatiently waiting for this special event to take place, and finally God made it possible. We praise God for that and today we are really excited to share this with you also. We believe that your hearts will be blessed, and your spirits will be refreshed with joy and grace of God.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Finally Set Free"},{"content":"Dear Friends and family,\nWe hope and pray that you are doing well, we are always thankful to you for the faithful prayers, all love that we receive and the support. We also want to share with joy that we pray for you and your families.\nGod has been always faithful, and with every passing day, he is doing amazing things in our lives and through our lives in the ministry here.\nIdentity in Christ\nDuring the month of January, we had two main teaching ideas that we worked on and taught many people we came into contact. One was \u0026ldquo;Our Identity in Christ\u0026rdquo;, and second one was \u0026ldquo;Helping people know their Bible\u0026rdquo;. It was great time of sharing, teaching, and learning together with many wonderful souls, and Lord did amazing work in the lives of people.\n474795527\\_10164714357813098\\_8136557961067387627\\_n 475125966\\_10164714356773098\\_4125369244105412629\\_n 475125970\\_10164714356808098\\_5623169265436690965\\_n 475139474\\_10164714357473098\\_1481441156682939565\\_n In our evangelistic outreach we reached some groups around us in the villages where we had special teaching sessions to help people know their Bibles well, so that they may study and understand it properly.\n\\_MG\\_7063 \\_MG\\_7061 \\_MG\\_7083 \\_MG\\_7089 Reaching some unreached\nWe praise God that many around, who were unreached for long time are being reached and we are sharing the Word of God with them in the form of Print Bible, Audio Bibles in some other possible ways. The spirit of God and your prayers will be helping them know the Lord as their personal Savior and grow in their Christian belief.\nWhatsApp Image 2025-02-03 at 10.04.35\\_02b4c333 WhatsApp Image 2025-02-03 at 10.06.05\\_159cb94f WhatsApp Image 2025-02-03 at 10.06.06\\_54e0ab9c Serving through Printed Material\nOur team always leaves something for people to study and learn from. Small booklets, some pamphlets, charts and audio devices with NT recording have been really helpful for us to share the word with many new people recently. We are printing two new wonderful books this month and will need to work on some more in near future, please keep that all in your prayers.\nWhatsApp Image 2025-01-28 at 11.40.38\\_468c06ec WhatsApp Image 2025-01-30 at 20.14.52\\_50bdb535 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-30 at 20.15.49\\_edceceff WhatsApp Image 2025-02-03 at 10.12.35\\_5e0438ac Women Ministry\nMy wife Farah has started one discipleship class of women and next month she is starting another one. She is really great help for many women. Please keep Farah and her women friends working with her in your prayers.\nWhatsApp Image 2025-02-20 at 12.25.29\\_5d74f8d4 WhatsApp Image 2025-02-20 at 12.25.29\\_fc3c26ca WhatsApp Image 2025-02-20 at 12.25.30\\_f8041af0 WhatsApp Image 2025-02-20 at 12.25.37\\_31a25c06 We want to thank you once again for your all love, care and support. We always need your prayers and support. We want to ask you to please keep praying for our financial need for the village church building and also for Urdu Print Bibles. we were able to get some Urdu Bibles this month, but those are just few as compared to the need we have.\nPlease keep our team and our families in your prayers daily. God bless you all, we love you.\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2025/02/20/sowing-gods-word/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope and pray that you are doing well, we are always thankful to you for the faithful prayers, all love that we receive and the support. We also want to share with joy that we pray for you and your families.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGod has been always faithful, and with every passing day, he is doing amazing things in our lives and through our lives in the ministry here.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Sowing God's Word"},{"content":"“Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him” (Psalm 34:8).\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings and much love from Pakistan. We praise God that He is good all the time, and He has always kept us in His protection. Our family and team are doing good. My wife Farah is suffering from migraine, she needs your prayers.\nJoyful Christmas time and blessed New Year\nChristmas time is always joyful and at the same time it is really busy time as we all know. Our time with many different groups of people and family members was really great. The best time of this all was the worship and prayer time. It was time for recollection, great time of fellowship, praying and praising God for His goodness. This was also a great time for us to reach many other people and groups to share the special joy and love with them\nWe had really joyful and blessed time of Christmas and New Year, with the great opportunity to share the message of Salvation through our Savior Lord Jesus Christ. You will feel blessed to see some of the glimpse of those special events that we were able to organize.\nWhatsApp Image 2025-01-07 at 16.49.16\\_0a583c2f WhatsApp Image 2025-01-07 at 16.49.14\\_2c5d04de WhatsApp Image 2024-12-18 at 21.57.08\\_f16824c3 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-05 at 17.31.36\\_6346a038 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-05 at 17.26.19\\_1c67d1f8 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-05 at 17.31.38\\_20ad50c0 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-05 at 17.26.10\\_e5560150 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-05 at 17.26.12\\_aa408bdb WhatsApp Image 2024-12-24 at 01.15.35\\_2221584d Special Grace for Brickmakers\nWe praise God that He has been using our ministry to reach and teach some groups of poor brick makers who are slaves because of heavy financial debts. Our church has always been a\n\\_MG\\_6584 \\_MG\\_6593 \\_MG\\_6595 \\_MG\\_6625 joyful blessing for these brothers and sisters at special occasions like Christmas and Easter. This year also, we were able to spend some great time with them, have fellowship and worship and the church also blessed these and some other families with food bags. Thanks to our brothers and sisters for the support.\nBrick Makers Family Set Free Program\nAt the same time, God has also shown special grace through a dear friend from America, who\nWhatsApp Image 2025-01-09 at 13.12.06\\_8ead291a WhatsApp Image 2025-01-09 at 14.13.41\\_11d60b3a WhatsApp Image 2025-01-09 at 14.13.39\\_2ec49d01 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-09 at 16.17.23\\_c6b47c43 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-09 at 10.54.31\\_94bbb0e7 WhatsApp Image 2025-01-09 at 10.49.18\\_b0a04649 really worked hard to help us get connected with one organization that pays the debts of brick makers and sets these precious families free. The official procedure has started, and we hope that very soon these families will be debt free and will be able to live free live and work independently.\nChurch Building\nWe want to share with you that the church building in the village needs more funding in order\nWhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_caa57847 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_44f52cdc WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_f0e30fb5 to be finished. We want to complete this soon as possible and for that we need your prayers and support. This church is going to be a place of gathering many people from the surrounding villages for teaching and training. We also want to request you to please keep our families and our team in your prayers. God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2025/01/21/goodness-of-god-continues/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e“Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him” (Psalm 34:8).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and much love from Pakistan. We praise God that He is good all the time, and He has always kept us in His protection. Our family and team are doing good. My wife Farah is suffering from migraine, she needs your prayers.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoyful Christmas time and blessed New Year\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Goodness of God continues..."},{"content":"Dear Friends \u0026amp; Family,\nMerry Christmas, we hope and pray that you all are doing good. We are good by the grace of God, and we are thankful to you all for the prayers, love and support. It is almost Christmas time, and very soon we will be in the next year by the grace and will of God. We praise God for all the wonderful and amazing things that we were able to do with His Help. Here through this update, we want to give you some Highlights of year 2024 and we want to ask you to pray for/with us as we enter into next year.\nVillage Church Building: God enabled us this year to purchase a piece of land in a village and start the building, the level of the piece of land was deep and was not in good shape, we have been working and have laid good foundation, much of the work still remains and we need your support to complete this. WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_f0e30fb5 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_caa57847 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.13.28\\_44f52cdc 01 WhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_ac56606d 28 Trainings and Workshops: During this year we were able to organize different kinds of trainings and workshops to strengthen brothers and sisters in our church and many others in their faith. We praise God that this has been really fruitful and helpful. people loved being in our trainings.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.28.30\\_69b11fb7 449948366\\_10163619732813098\\_4351173695879711294\\_n 450074308\\_10163619732433098\\_3403099589452257058\\_n 450885440\\_10163635222418098\\_1293887869463587989\\_n WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.22.04\\_e1e9f6e2 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.22.04\\_69844105 Outreaches: God has enabled us to reach many new people groups at different places this year. We praise God for the teaching resources that He has provided to us, and we are able to go and share the word of God with many around us. There are always some difficult places and situations we always need your prayers as we serve here.\nOrdination of Pastor Joseph: One of our oldest co-laborer brother Joseph Arif was ordained as a pastor in September as we went to participate in Calvary Chapel conference in Thailand. We praise God for him and his wonderful ministry.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.55.24\\_3ee15894 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.28.30\\_2ccb5a7e WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.28.30\\_d9bc94f4 Woman Ministry: Woman ministry is one of the very important ministries that God has enabled us to start. Through this ministry God is helping very oppressed women, they are growing in faith, and they are also learning different kinds of skills. Their families are happy and thriving.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-09-05 at 20.20.43\\_275675c9 WhatsApp Image 2024-08-26 at 12.27.26\\_02cc0923 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 17.07.22\\_5f9c61c6 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.59.56\\_f8a6554d WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.59.55\\_4e146018 WhatsApp Image 2024-12-10 at 19.59.56\\_941c85c7 Sunday Schools: We praise God that we were able to encourage a group in Hindu tribe (desert) to start teaching children and it is really helpful, we were able to send a young Christian girl for training to serve in Sunday School Ministry, she has come back and has started one in the neighboring town of Bahawalpur. We are going to work more on this ministry in near future and expand it to Hindu Tribal Areas. please keep this in your prayers.\nOnline Classes: Our weekly online classes are going really well, recently we were able to travel to the groups that has been learning from us online, we were so blessed to listen to the students while they were sharing about their spiritual journey. Please keep praying that we may grow this part of our ministry into organized classes and trainings in near future.\nBooks and Study Material: We always work on preparing different kinds of study material. During this year we have translated many new articles, courses and some books into Urdu language. The most important of them are: a book on Biblical Counselling, two books of Warren W. Wiersbe, (Devotional Commentary of the Bible and On Being the Servant of God), and Calvary Chapel Distinctive. We are starting CC Distinctive class, and we believe that God is going to using other study material in a mighty way for the wellbeing of the church.\nThere are many other things that God has been doing in and through our lives. we give him all glory and we seek to be doing His will always. Please continue to pray for us all here. Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2024/12/10/highlights-of-2024/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends \u0026amp; Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMerry Christmas, we hope and pray that you all are doing good. We are good by the grace of God, and we are thankful to you all for the prayers, love and support. It is almost Christmas time, and very soon we will be in the next year by the grace and will of God. We praise God for all the wonderful and amazing things that we were able to do with His Help. Here through this update, we want to give you some Highlights of year 2024 and we want to ask you to pray for/with us as we enter into next year.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVillage Church Building:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e God enabled us this year to purchase a piece of land in a village and start the building, the level of the piece of land was deep and was not in good shape, we have been working and have laid good foundation, much of the work still remains and we need your support to complete this.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e{{ double-space-with-newline }} {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e{{ double-space-with-newline }} {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrainings and Workshops:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e During this year we were able to organize different kinds of trainings and workshops to strengthen brothers and sisters in our church and many others in their faith. We praise God that this has been really fruitful and helpful. people loved being in our trainings.{{ double-space-with-newline }} {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e{{ double-space-with-newline }} {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOutreaches:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e God has enabled us to reach many new people groups at different places this year. We praise God for the teaching resources that He has provided to us, and we are able to go and share the word of God with many around us. There are always some difficult places and situations we always need your prayers as we serve here.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/06/MG_1714-300x200.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/06/MG_1690-300x200.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/06/MG_1702-300x200.jpg\"\u003e{{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/03/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-13-at-14.16.10_44e49b42-300x169.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/03/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-16-at-13.30.51_b6329e9c-300x135.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/04/04-1-300x225.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrdination of Pastor Joseph:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e One of our oldest co-laborer brother Joseph Arif was ordained as a pastor in September as we went to participate in Calvary Chapel conference in Thailand. We praise God for him and his wonderful ministry.{{ double-space-with-newline }} {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e{{ double-space-with-newline }} {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWoman Ministry:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e Woman ministry is one of the very important ministries that God has enabled us to start. Through this ministry God is helping very oppressed women, they are growing in faith, and they are also learning different kinds of skills. Their families are happy and thriving.{{ double-space-with-newline }} {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e{{ double-space-with-newline }} {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSunday Schools:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e We praise God that we were able to encourage a group in Hindu tribe \u003ca href=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/12/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-10-at-20.21.08_6ebabf50.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/12/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-10-at-20.21.08_6ebabf50-300x225.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e(desert) to start teaching children and it is really helpful, we were able to send a young Christian girl for training to serve in Sunday School Ministry, she has come back and has started one in the neighboring town of Bahawalpur. We are going to work more on this ministry in near future and expand it to Hindu Tribal Areas. please keep this in your prayers.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnline Classes:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e Our weekly online classes are going really well, recently we were able to travel to the groups that has been learning from us online, we were so blessed to listen to the students while they were sharing about their spiritual journey. Please keep praying that we may grow this part of our ministry into organized classes and trainings in near future.{{ double-space-with-newline }}  {{ double-space-with-newline }}\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooks and Study Material:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e We always work on preparing different kinds of study material. During this year we have translated many new articles, courses and some books into Urdu \u003ca href=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/12/1.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://sgwm.com/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/12/1-300x238.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e language. The most important of them are: a book on Biblical Counselling, two books of Warren W. Wiersbe, (Devotional Commentary of the Bible and On Being the Servant of God), and Calvary Chapel Distinctive. We are starting CC Distinctive class, and we believe that God is going to using other study material in a mighty way for the wellbeing of the church.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are many other things that God has been doing in and through our lives. we give him all glory and we seek to be doing His will always. Please continue to pray for us all here. Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ein Christ Jesus\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNadeem Massey\u003c/p\u003e\n","title":"Highlights of 2024"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.\u0026rdquo; Psalm 46:10\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings, we hope and pray that you are doing good. We all are doing well and praise God for His goodness always. The hot scorching summer season is almost over, and it is getter cooler with the passage of time. We praise God for His all protection and care.\nCC Asia Conference\nLast month we were able to go to Thailand to participate in CC Asia Conference 2024, for us the amazing part of this all was that our whole family could travel to Thailand together,\nWhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.21.14\\_f88e1a57 WhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.59.29\\_36fe1663 and one of our team member Joseph Arif was also with us. The conference was really wonderful, and the teaching refreshed us all spiritually.\nWe travelled to Nepal as whole family back in 2012, when our kids were really young. It was really amazing time of fellowship with our different friends from Calvary Chapels in Asiah, and our Saving Grace Family.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.13.26\\_0955ac4b WhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.13.25\\_d2c5b5dc WhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.13.26\\_dac05154 And for our youngest one, it was all fun time as he really enjoyed being there, playing with other children and exploring beautiful places.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.21.13\\_3fc790c4 WhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.21.13\\_93d0e18a Joseph\u0026rsquo;s Ordination\nThe most important thing was the ceremony of ordination of our brother in Christ Joseph Arif. Joseph has been with us for last 16 years. He has been serving very faithfully during all this time. He comes from a humble background, he helped us plant a church with brickmakers, and also a church in the village.\nJoseph was first person to join our team in 2008, and since then he has been really a great blessing for us. His wife\u0026rsquo;s name is Kiran and they have only one son who is 17 years old at this time. We were praying for Joseph to be officially ordained as a pastor and God made it possible now at this conference.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.21.13\\_e2450860 WhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.21.13\\_80288938 WhatsApp Image 2024-10-15 at 14.21.13\\_a06540e1 This truly was very much blessed time for Joseph as he travelled internationally first time in his 43 years of life. We praise God for everything in Joseph\u0026rsquo;s life and ministry and in Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to you all for the prayers, love and support. Please continue to pray for our team and families. God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2024/10/15/cc-asia-conference-2024/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://www.biblestudytools.com/psalms/46-10.html\"\u003ePsalm 46:10\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, we hope and pray that you are doing good. We all are doing well and praise God for His goodness always. The hot scorching summer season is almost over, and it is getter cooler with the passage of time. We praise God for His all protection and care.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"CC Asia Conference 2024"},{"content":"I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 2 Tim. 4:1-2\nDear Friends and Family,\nWe hope and pray that you all are fine. We are also doing good by the grace of God. I am sorry that I could not write an update for you for some time. The rainy season has just ended. There was much flooding and problems because of that in our country as usual, but things are getting normal now. Our family, team members and church members are doing good, and they all greet you.\nEquipping the New Generation\nIt has always been our priority to share the good news of salvation through the Shed blood of Christ with our new generation. This year we were able to start a proper learning system for\n449948366\\_10163619732813098\\_4351173695879711294\\_n 449948021\\_10163619732903098\\_3141891124275479298\\_n 449951272\\_10163619732778098\\_8596924785919025714\\_n 450074308\\_10163619732433098\\_3403099589452257058\\_n 450229491\\_10163619732648098\\_7496570557539403505\\_n 450885440\\_10163635222418098\\_1293887869463587989\\_n the young men and women, and it has been really very helpful for all the students, and we see it to be very fruitful. We are having a weekly study on Christian Apologetics, and we see more and more young men and women interested to join in. Next year we are going to start an official \u0026ldquo;Certificate Program\u0026rdquo; at our training center, where we will train these people to know their Christian belief system and be able to defend what they believe. Please keep this in your special prayers.\nWomen Ministry\nThis is one of the very important ministries of our church, through this ministry we are serving at different places. My wife Farah is leading this ministry. She goes to teach these women during their Bible study sessions. She also helps them in their problems through Biblical Counselling sessions.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-07-11 at 16.11.31\\_bc25b33e WhatsApp Image 2024-09-05 at 20.20.45\\_3629d880 WhatsApp Image 2024-08-26 at 12.27.26\\_02cc0923 WhatsApp Image 2024-09-05 at 20.20.43\\_275675c9 WhatsApp Image 2024-09-05 at 20.20.44\\_5cffa750 WhatsApp Image 2024-08-26 at 12.27.26\\_becd72f2 Young women are not only learning Sewing and knitting, but at the same time they are fed spiritually on the Word of God, they are encouraged and equipped to grow as true Christians, and thus lead healthy Christian families.\nStudy Session in Europe\nI got chance a month before to go to France and study on Christian Apologetics in the Academy of Dr. J. W. Montgomery. It was very refreshing and really wonderful experience of learning myself in order to be a better teacher and pastor in our church. I am really thankful to God that I could get this chance to participate in this annual study session there. This all study is helping me and our team to teach more effectively.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-09-10 at 20.10.55\\_00a37dd1 WhatsApp Image 2024-09-10 at 20.13.13\\_91f678ae WhatsApp Image 2024-09-10 at 20.13.13\\_bf163d47 Our new generation has great tendency to accept different kinds of new philosophies and accept many evolutionary ideas. We are helping our team to be well equipped to train the new generation defend their faith against all of these new philosophies and challenges they face.\nDesert Mission Project\nWe praise God that our desert mission project is going well, our team members there are very much devoted, and they are reaching more and more people every day to share the Word of God with them. They are discipling many groups and reaching new groups always providing people with the copies of Bibles and sound biblical teaching.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-08-17 at 10.47.34\\_280f1ffc WhatsApp Image 2024-08-09 at 19.12.04\\_89158bb2 WhatsApp Image 2024-08-17 at 10.49.19\\_68a29bab Online Bible classes\nOur online Bible classes in Bahawalpur and in some other cities are also going well. People are travelling from different parts of the city to join in those classes. We praise God for technology and for this opportunity to teach people from a distant place. This really gives us much joy and encouragement in the mission to see how the Word of God is changing lives in different areas.\n432749911\\_10163364257808098\\_4561527439662579808\\_n 432749921\\_10163364258023098\\_4843447170416371921\\_n (1) WhatsApp Image 2024-08-20 at 22.44.04\\_ee896706 Please continue to pray for these groups to keep learning and growing spiritually.\nBrick Makers and Village Ministry\nOne of very important and amazing ministry of church is reaching and teaching people in the village and at some brick kilns. These are really poor and disadvantaged people. We praise God that we are able to reach and teach them faithful for all the past years. We are thankful to God for our committed team members who are always willing to go to share the Word of God with these people, be among and with them and encourage them through teaching and discipleship.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-08-30 at 11.56.49\\_d3dd92bb WhatsApp Image 2024-08-30 at 11.57.37\\_aa8ce743 WhatsApp Image 2024-07-15 at 09.07.57\\_d36bce34 Please continue to pray for our team, our families and our church here in Pakistan. We are thankful to you for your generous support. The encouragement and love that we receive from you all keeps us devoted, excited and encouraged to be very focused on our ministries through Calvary Chapel Pakistan. God bless you and your family.\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2024/09/10/equipping-the-next-generation/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.\u003c/em\u003e 2 Tim. 4:1-2\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope and pray that you all are fine. We are also doing good by the grace of God. I am sorry that I could not write an update for you for some time. The rainy season has just ended. There was much flooding and problems because of that in our country as usual, but things are getting normal now. Our family, team members and church members are doing good, and they all greet you.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Equipping the Next Generation"},{"content":"“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’” -Romans 10:14-15\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings and love from Pakistan. We hope and pray that you all are doing good by the grace of God. We praise God for His protection and grace for us, our church and our families. We are thankful to you all for the faithful prayer, love and support that we have always been receiving from you.\nA Sad Incident\nWe always request you to keep praying for the protection and safety of Church in Pakistan. Christians are very often persecuted for their faith, just because of some false accusations. This happened once again a week before when a Christian man who was a shoe factory owner was accused of saying something against the majority religion and a mob of hundreds came, put his house and factory on fire, looted everything and beat the owner brutally that he died in next few days in the hospital. We want to request you to pray for peace in the country, for the persecuted family and community around them and also for all Christians here.\nSouth Punjab Mission\nOur teaching and outreach project in South Punjab is going really great. Recently we were there and as usual we started our Mission Week with Whole Days Teaching Sessions. It really was amazing and our team in South Punjab invited people from various places, we hosted them, and we taught them for two days. Each day the number of participants was about 225-240 people. We praise God for such a fruitful and successful work there. Our team there is regularly reaching to teach in the surrounding remote aeras.\n\\_MG\\_0682 Reaching the unreached\nIn our Desert Outreach, we have different groups coming from Hindu background, we are\n\\_MG\\_1160 \\_MG\\_1203 \\_MG\\_1172 \\_MG\\_1244 ministering to them for some years now and a large number of them at different places show great interest in Christian teaching. Now during our recent trip while visiting one big group we had some really awesome experience. Our team member Aftab supervises this church, and we praise God that we were able to provide New Testament audio recording in their own langue called Marwari. There are different big groups like these still waiting to be reached with the Gospel of Salvation, please keep them in your prayer.\nSewing School\nAs you know we also started a women ministry project in South Punjab, in the desert area. It was really so much exciting for us to see the skill and spiritual growth among these ladies. They come together on daily basis to learn and while they are there, they also have a Bible study\n\\_MG\\_0989 \\_MG\\_1028 \\_MG\\_1035 \\_MG\\_1039 session. All the students had made something special to show us when we visited them. We praise God for this wonderful ministry, please continue to keep this in your prayers. We need more centers like this in that area, please pray for that need as well.\nReaching Some New Groups\nGod has provided us a new translation of Bible in audio format, the language is spoken by some of the tribes living in the desert area. This was really great opportunity for us to reach and share about Bible in their language, so we planned meetings with a couple of groups in the evening, as this is the time when they come from their work. These meetings were really good, we were well received, and we left some copies of the new translation of the Bible with these groups.\n\\_MG\\_1714 \\_MG\\_1702 \\_MG\\_1683 \\_MG\\_1690 Children Ministry\nOne Basic ministry which is very important and needs to be worked hard on is Children\u0026rsquo;s ministry. We have always encouraged this ministry much in South Punjab and have met different groups of children and teachers. Recently we sent two girls for one month training for Sunday School. We feel very blessed that during this trip to South Punjab/Desert area, we could work among children as well.\n\\_MG\\_1524 \\_MG\\_1462 \\_MG\\_1493 \\_MG\\_1525 We praise God for all fruitful aspects of ministry here in Pakistan. Thank God for His grace, and once again we are thankful to all of you for the prayers. God bless you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2024/06/07/desert-outreach/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’” -Romans 10:14-15\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and love from Pakistan. We hope and pray that you all are doing good by the grace of God. We praise God for His protection and grace for us, our church and our families. We are thankful to you all for the faithful prayer, love and support that we have always been receiving from you.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Desert Outreach"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.\u0026rdquo; Philippians 4:13\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings and love from Pakistan. We are always thankful to you all for your love, care and support for Calvary Chapel Pakistan and for our team and families. We are doing good by the grace of God. Through this short ministry update we want to share some amazing things that God is doing here in and through our humble ministry.\nVillage Church Building\nYou know from our two last updates that we are working on church building in the village. The basic work is done, foundation is laid, and we are already using that place for our weekly meetings.\nDuring Easter Celebration, people were very happy to come there, we had great time of fellowship and sharing the word of God with them. People are very excited and so are we when we envision this place being used not only for this village\u0026rsquo;s people but for many other people in the surrounding villages.\n09 04 02 01 We need your prayers and support for this church building. We are raising support for this, if God leads you to contribute in any possible way, we will highly appreciate that.\nBrick Makers\nThe groups of Brick makers are very close to our heart, there are more than one groups that we are reaching, teaching and encouraging in the Lord. They are very poor, and they lead their lives in slavery. It is always a blessing for us to reach and teach them and blessing them in any possible way.\nOn Easter this group and a couple of others received food bags support and we had great fellowship with them. They live under great debt from generation to generation. We are praying for many families to be free from debt somehow. Please keep them and our vision to help them lead debt free live in your prayers.\nWomen Ministry\nWomen ministry is also very important for our church. Women in the far villages are most of the time busy working for their families and they are also ignored spiritually.\nWe have some really encouraging reports from the areas where my wife Farah and another lady named Monica go and teach. They go and teach these ladies and listen to their some very personal problems and then provide Biblical counselling, encouraging them to live true Christian life. The result of their ministry is very positive, encouraging and it is chaning many lives.\nTheology and Missions Study\nOur team is working to start proper study courses on \u0026ldquo;Theology and Missions\u0026rdquo; in the coming months. Much of the course preparational work has been completed. We have some very interested people who will be our proper students, there will be two classes weekly where I and one of our other team members are going to teach. Please keep this also in your prayers.\nOnce again, we want to thank you for your all love, care and support. We pray for you and your families. God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2024/04/11/planting-building-and-serving-in-pakistan/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.\u0026rdquo; Philippians 4:13\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003cbr\u003e\nGreetings and love from Pakistan. We are always thankful to you all for your love, care and support for Calvary Chapel Pakistan and for our team and families. We are doing good by the grace of God. Through this short ministry update we want to share some amazing things that God is doing here in and through our humble ministry.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlanting, Building and Serving in Pakistan\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.\u0026rdquo; Psalms 3:3\nDear Friends and family, Greetings and much love! we are all fine by the grace of God and we pray for you and your families to be fine, happy and covered with the grace of God. We are always thankful to you for your love, care and prayer support. We are excited to share with you:\nVillage Church construction We praise God that we started the wok of construction during last month. The piece of the land was much lower than the surrounding area. We needed to start the basic work so that we may have proper foundation for the building.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-02-19 at 10.29.05\\_54bf45d8 WhatsApp Image 2024-02-19 at 10.30.14\\_62fbeaa8 05 10 We praise God that the main foundation is laid well and ground level of the plot is also raised, we are now getting ready to start the main building.\n25 24 28 36 We praise God for the progress, people are very happy for this all and we are looking forward with great excitement to this place being used for the prayer and worship.\n26 31 41 45 Please continue to pray for this project to be completed soon without any problem, as this is very important project, and we need your special prayers for this building to be completed and then be used very well for the glory of God. We need your special love, support and prayers for this building project.\nOutreach Evangelism\nWe are so thankful to God for blessing us with many sources of sharing His word. We praise God for our wonderful team that has passion to reach many new people and forming many new groups for the Bible study. It always blesses my heart that we are able to reach those people who are many times not expecting anyone to reach them with the Word of God.\nWhatsApp Image 2024-03-16 at 13.30.45\\_74bad594 WhatsApp Image 2024-03-13 at 14.16.10\\_44e49b42 WhatsApp Image 2024-03-16 at 13.30.43\\_0bf4f03d WhatsApp Image 2024-03-16 at 13.31.04\\_fd1601b2 WhatsApp Image 2024-03-16 at 13.30.51\\_b6329e9c WhatsApp Image 2024-03-16 at 13.31.25\\_81a151e7 Please continue to pray for our team and this work to continue and bless many who are still unreached.\nChristian Udu Publication\nMany of you know that we have been working writing, translating and recording different kinds of teachings for all believers. Recently we got one 23 x 36 inches colored poster printed with the self-help for 1000 Sunday schools and youth groups to help them know about their Bible in a better way. We are working on a couple of booklets and some books also. This part of our ministry also needs your support and encouragement.\nWe have some new Urdu translations of wonderful books, and I am about to complete two new books of mine also in the coming months. Please keep this project and our team working on this in your special prayers.\nWomen Ministry The Women Ministry team wants to send special thanks to all of you who pray and support this\nWhatsApp Image 2024-03-17 at 20.51.17\\_b92063d8 WhatsApp Image 2024-03-17 at 20.51.16\\_72bf4a6e WhatsApp Image 2024-03-17 at 20.54.04\\_0a8cc905 wonderful and very helpful project to reach and teach unreached women at different places. we always have really encouraging report from all the places. Please continue to pray for this ministry and your support is highly appreciated.\nThere are many other wonderful things going on in the ministry which we will continue to share with you in the up-coming newsletters. We are thankful to you all. God bless you. in Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2024/03/17/village-church-and-cc-ministry/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\nPsalms 3:3\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\nGreetings and much love! we are all fine by the grace of God and we pray for you and your families to be fine, happy and covered with the grace of God. We are always thankful to you for your love, care and prayer support. We are excited to share with you:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Village Church and CC Ministry"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.\u0026rdquo;__Acts 20:28\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings and much love to you and your family. We hope and pray that you are doing good by the grace of God. We all are doing good as God\u0026rsquo;s grace is always covering us as we serve to share the Good News of Salvation through the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.\nA Church started in a Tent needs some changes Back in 2017 we started a fellowship and church planting project in a village. It was a very humble start, this village had Christian community consisted of Roman Catholics in the past, and now as the families grew, some people started a new colony. People kept on coming and living there. There was no church, no pastor and no Christian fellowship. So, we started a\nIMG\\_1146-1 30171542\\_10155237845916470\\_6197721866083878766\\_o IMG\\_4933 03 01 (1) IMG\\_1500 fellowship in the tent and later on we were blessed to have an iron roof covering for that. We have been serving here during all these years and now we are told to change the place as the family wants to use their land for house building.\nStep of Faith_New Building Project\nWe kept this situation in prayers and God has graciously provide a piece of land for us to have our village church building. By the grace of God, we are going to prepare this piece of land for\nWhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_9463797c WhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_dbca376b WhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_539609f4 WhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_ac56606d the building, and we are praying to have a proper church building there in near future. God has blessed us with some funds, still we will need to raise a large portion yet in order to complete the building project. We want to request you to join us in prayers and stand with us in cooperation, co-laboring in this mission field. We will highly appreciate your support for this project of church building in this village.\nVision for Future Ministry Calvary Chapel Pakistan has vision to use this church building as a headquarter for Evangelism and mission work in the surrounding villages. This building will not only be for church services for these villagers but will be a training center where we will invite young men and women from the other villages around for teaching and training them to grow in their faith and witness their faith in Lord Jesus Christ through their lives. The area which was a hub of Roman Catholicism some decades before will be a hub for Biblical Teaching to hundreds of young men/women as well as Children of dozens of villages around.\nWe are always thankful to you all for the prayers, support and all love, please keep this current project of building and our vision to use this building in your prayers along with other ministry activities, our team and families. God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2024/02/15/village-church-construction/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e__Acts 20:28\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and much love to you and your family. We hope and pray that you are doing good by the grace of God. We all are doing good as God\u0026rsquo;s grace is always covering us as we serve to share the Good News of Salvation through the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Village Church Construction"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. \u0026ldquo;Acts 1:8\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings, in God\u0026rsquo;s glorious name, we are doing well. Weather is much cold, and shortage of power and natural gas continues here in our countries. With all that, church and ministry activities are going well and smooth. We are sorry for sending this update so late, a dear one in the family passed away because of brain hemorrhage, we had to be with the family in the village for few days. We want to request you to please keep his widow and two sons, 12 years old and 3 years old in your prayers.\nNew Leadership Training\nWe have been working to prepare more teaching leadership in our church and ministry, for which we started special weekly fellowship and training online where 11 friends from different cities get connected and I\u0026rsquo;ve been teaching a class on Theology, and we have been discussing and learning about many other things. These men of God come from different walks of life, and they are from different cities like Bahawalpur, Sheikhupura, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Peshawar. We are very happy that some of them are improving much and are helping us in teaching of the Word of God at different places.\n062142C7-F364-4C21-BB27-A67B0BA8EC44\\_1\\_105\\_c 323232 WhatsApp Image 2023-07-23 at 17.45.16 We are going to continue this training and God willing these new leaders will be teaching and serving in coordination with Calvary Chapel Pakistan in different cities of the country.\nOutreach Expanded with New Tools\nWe\u0026rsquo;ve been reaching to some brickmakers near our town and God has blessed this teaching ministry. Calvary Chapel Pakistan has been receiving some free booklets from World Missionary Press for more than a decade, we send those to many churches and ministries in whole country. Recently God made it possible for us to get some small audio playing devices with New Testament recordings. With the Help of Pakistan Bible Society, we have now New Testament audio recordings in 9 more languages other than our national language. This opened the doors for us to reach new areas, new groups, and we are now able to reach some restricted areas also with New Testament in their local languages. People are receiving free Biblical booklets and audio Bibles, and we are receiving really amazing feedback. This is helping us to reach other deep parts of our country first time where we cannot have access directly. Please keep this in your prayers that this outreaching ministry may continue to grow.\nNew Literature prepared and work continues\u0026hellip;\nWe firmly believe that along with solid teaching of the Bible we also need provide to study material to people, so that they may continue growing in faith. We have been working on translation and writing a lot that now we have much material in the forms of booklets, books, pamphlets and presentations for our friends and co-laborers to use in the ministry.\nThere are many titles particularly prepared for the new generation that is facing the problem of modernity, neopaganism and skepticism. We are also recording much material in videos which is really helpful for people, and we receive great feedback. There are also two books authored by me, one is on Mormonism and other one is on Spiritual Discernment. We need your help to get these valuable resources printed in Pakistan. We have got permission from Answers in Genesis to translate and use Answers series for kids, the set of 8 books for children is fully translated, and we can print those when God provides funds, and we also have permission from Calvary Curriculum to use\nWhatsApp Image 2024-01-20 at 18.42.25\\_f7e85e30 WhatsApp Image 2024-01-20 at 18.42.26\\_a34c7607 WhatsApp Image 2024-01-20 at 18.42.27\\_83cd1ec1 WhatsApp Image 2024-01-20 at 18.42.26\\_728595a8 WhatsApp Image 2023-11-17 at 17.22.03\\_8df516ee WhatsApp Image 2023-11-17 at 17.22.03\\_4a66c01a WhatsApp Image 2023-11-15 at 20.14.55\\_024461dc WhatsApp Image 2023-11-17 at 17.22.02\\_ccdae056 their all stuff in Pakistan after translating it. Our team has translated a study book for Youth Camp, and we are working on children\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Through the Bible\u0026rdquo; series. We want to get most of our work printed this year, and we want you to please support us for this.\nChurch Building Plan\nGod has been faithful to bless us during all the past years in the ministry. We shared about our\nWhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_9463797c WhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_ac56606d WhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_4c8eb9f0 WhatsApp Image 2024-01-06 at 16.00.00\\_dbca376b village church many times with us. God has provided us funds to purchase land for the church building, and we are fully ready to start the building after we have sufficient funds and then permission from our Pastoral Leadership and Mission Board. This church in the village will be a central place for us to reach other villages around, invite them for teaching, organize teaching sessions and programs for youth and children of many surrounding villages. This village used to be Roman Catholic Hub in the past, and now Calvary Chapel is serving and teaching here. We pray for this project to be completed soon as possible. Please keep this also in your prayers.\nWoman Ministry Expanded\nMy wife Farah has been serving in the women ministry for many years now. We have a sewing school and Bible study groups of women in our neighboring villages. These groups are really good and very helpful for the women of these villages. They come together, study the word of God and pray for each other and at the same time they are learning some sewing skills also totally free.\nBy the end of last year, we also started woman ministry project in the desert area and now those groups there are also doing really well. We want to continue these projects of\nWhatsApp Image 2023-12-18 at 20.36.46\\_653fd235 WhatsApp Image 2023-12-18 at 20.36.48\\_5ceea220 women to help them learn some good and helpful skills and also continue to receive Biblical education in these centers and groups. We also have prepared a book on Biblical Counselling for women and if God provided, we really would love to get that printed and then be used among these groups.\nTeaching Conferences in 2024\nLast year we really had great experience of a conference organized by Calvary Chapel in\n05 323232 062142C7-F364-4C21-BB27-A67B0BA8EC44\\_1\\_105\\_c Bahawalpur city for three days. It was really wonderful and blessed time, and people loved the teaching and conference very much. We have vision to organize such conferences more than once during the year, and at the same time explore more areas ahead in the desert. We want to request you to please keep this all in your prayers and as God guides you, continue to support us like you have always done. We love you and are thankful for your love, care and prayers. God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2024/01/20/new-year-new-opportunities/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the\u003c/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eearth.          \u0026ldquo;Acts\u003c/em\u003e 1:8\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003cbr\u003e\nGreetings, in God\u0026rsquo;s glorious name, we are doing well. Weather is much cold, and shortage of power and natural gas continues here in our countries. With all that, church and ministry activities are going well and smooth. We are sorry for sending this update so late, a dear one in the family passed away because of brain hemorrhage, we had to be with the family in the village for few days. We want to request you to please keep his widow and two sons, 12 years old and 3 years old in your prayers.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"New Year, New Opportunities"},{"content":"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.____Isaiah 9:6 Dear Friends and Family, Greetings and Merry Christmas, we hope and pray that you all are doing well during this blessed time. We all are fine by the grace of God. We praise God for His grace during the whole year of 2023, God has been gracious and overall, this was a really wonderful year for us all and for the Calvary Chapel Ministry. We are thankful to you all for your Love, Care and Prayer Support.\nReaching and Teaching Calvary Chapel Pakistan has been very focused on Teaching the Word of God very faithfully in an organized Through the Bible manner. This has been really helpful for our whole team and this way to teacher has helped people to make distinction between Calvary Chapel Pakistan and other churches around. People love our teaching sessions, seminars, conferences and audio video teachings. Recently we organized a conference in Bahawalpur city, and people really loved all three days of teachings.\n01 IMG\\_9873 (Large) 05 IMG\\_9924 (Large) Church Planting and Outreach Evangelism Church planting and helping a church grow is really amazing experience for us. God has enabled us to plant a church in the desert area, one church in the city, one in a village and God willing we will be planting one in the city of Bahawalpur next year. We also have a special church of Brick makers. We praise God for providing us different tools for reaching and teaching these wonderful people and we have been teaching them in \u0026ldquo;Through the Bible\u0026rdquo; manner, during all these years.\nNew Church Buildings in 2024 God has provided us land for church building in the city and in one village. We are looking forward to starting our church buildings during the coming year. We want to request you to please keep these projects in your prayers and if Lord leads you, please support this project of Calvary Chapel Pakistan.\nWomen Ministry Women ministry of Calvary Chapel Pakistan has been really important ministry during all\nthese years. My wife Farah has been reaching hundreds of young women with the Word, and she has helped them through Biblical Counseling. The Sewing center in the villages are great blessings and tools to reach the unreached women. We are looking forward to having more sewing centers in more places in order to equip these Christian girls and women with a helpful skill and these Sewing Centers are also great places to teach them Word of God. We want to request you to please pray and support this project for more sewing centers in villages during the year 2024.\nRe-Printing of My Book_2024 My book on the topic of Christian Apologetics was published in 2019. It has been a great blessing for all the people who have been receiving and using this book. Some of the bible colleges also used it as their Textbook. We have been using the book very carefully during these years. Now it needs to be reprinted. It will cost us $2000 for 1000 copies, we want to request you to please pray for the provision of this need also.\nThere are two other works in the process of being written, one is on the topic of \u0026ldquo;Spiritual Discernment, and the other one is on Mormonism. Please continue to pray for me to be able to finish the work of writing in time frame that I\u0026rsquo;ve planned and please pray for the provision of the funds to get these works also printed in Pakistan. We really need some good, biblically sound books in Urdu because there are so many theologically bad and wrong books available totally free and those are so much harmful for Christians here.\nTheological Certificates for Pakistan Youth_2024 Our team is working on two certificate programs in Urdu languages. One is on Christian Apologetics and the other one is one \u0026ldquo;Basic Christian Theology\u0026rdquo;. We are working to provide teaching material in Recorded Video classes. This will be a beginning of theological Teaching institute under the umbrella of Calvary Chapel Pakistan. Please keep this project, the team and all our needs in your prayers.\nWe wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Blessed Happy New Year. Stay Blessed, God bless you all and your families. We love you, and thank you for all love, care and support. in Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2023/12/18/calvary-chapel-pakistan-2023/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.\u003c/em\u003e____Isaiah 9:6\n\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2023/12/merry-christmas-clip-art-14.png\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2023/12/merry-christmas-clip-art-14-300x220.png\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Dear Friends and Family,\nGreetings and Merry Christmas, we hope and pray that you all are doing well during this blessed time. We all are fine by the grace of God. We praise God for His grace during the whole year of 2023, God has been gracious and overall, this was a really wonderful year for us all and for the Calvary Chapel Ministry. We are thankful to you all for your Love, Care and Prayer Support.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Calvary Chapel Pakistan 2023"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.\u0026rdquo;___John 14:27\nDear Friends and family, Greetings in Christ Jesus, we all are doing good, and we hope and pray that you all are fine. I could not send an update last month; we all Christians were going through some tough time. Things were changing very fast; we sent some updates to our pastors in email but could not write an update for this page. We are thankful that you have always been praying for us. We pray for you.\nPersecution in Pakistan\nIn the month of August, some Christians of a town here were allegedly accused of saying something wrong about the majority religion. There were terrible attacks on Christian community. more than 23 churches and about 100 houses were put on fire. We thank God that\n370959033\\_10162942092238098\\_1520568573306361363\\_n 371764863\\_10162942092293098\\_6896413799056912002\\_n 371036265\\_10162942093348098\\_8708398705677429396\\_n 371768888\\_10162942092948098\\_2388277557241643186\\_n though Christians lost much during this time. But their lives remained safe. God has been gracious. after this incident, a series of such incidents started and every day we were hearing new things, new threats and new rumors. It was terrifying tie for Christians in all parts of the country.\n371138600\\_10162942092353098\\_8165822470234177722\\_n 371899686\\_10162942093253098\\_5685179304779735866\\_n 371826395\\_10162942092898098\\_3570457323035466179\\_n 371759937\\_10162942092798098\\_8642596782812706154\\_n We very firmly believe that Christians in this country are for a very special reason, and we love this country and always pray for this. At the same time, we know from the scripture that Christians will be disliked, hated and persecuted for the sake of their Christian belief. Please continue to pray for the brothers and sisters in the Lord who lost much, who went through very painful experience. Please pray for the children specially, because this all was very much terrifying for them.\n**Village Church Building\n** We planted a church in the village many years before. The church was originally started in a\nIMG\\_1146-1 IMG\\_4933 02-1 03 tent and then we had an iron roof shelter built on that place. As we shared in our last update ( Village and Desert Church | MASSEY FAMILY (sgwm.com) we now need to change the place of that church. God has provided help to move to a new place in order to have a proper church building at that place. We are prayerfully working on that, and we will be updating you about this, so that you all may continue to pray for that.\n**Desert Mission and Online Classes\n** We have church planting project in the desert where we have weekly online Bible classes. We praise God that during all these years, the classes are going well, the interest of the people has\nWhatsApp Image 2023-09-12 at 23.22.27\\_0942b909 WhatsApp Image 2023-09-12 at 23.19.18\\_9bb45d92 WhatsApp Image 2023-09-12 at 23.21.01\\_3f053d9a developed to study the books of the Bible with us. People come from different colonies of the city to participate in these classes. We are also working on online classes for the leaders (pastors and elders), so that they may lead other people well according to the true teaching of the Word of God.\nOur Translation, video audio recording and mission project among unreached, disadvantaged and rejected is going well. Every Friday is our mission day, we are reaching many brick making families for many years. Please keep this all in your prayers. God bless you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2023/10/05/for-the-sake-of-jesus/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.\u0026rdquo;___John 14:27\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family, \u003cbr\u003e\nGreetings in Christ Jesus, we all are doing good, and we hope and pray that you all are fine. I could not send an update last month; we all Christians were going through some tough time. Things were changing very fast; we sent some updates to our pastors in email but could not write an update for this page. We are thankful that you have always been praying for us. We pray for you.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"For the Sake of Jesus"},{"content":"They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Acts 2:42\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings, we hope and pray that you all are fine. We are doing good by the grace of God. It is monsoon time here, there are many rains, streets are often flooded with the rainwater, but we thank God that we don\u0026rsquo;t have any major flood problem in the country. Our church, teaching ministry, desert mission and church services are going really well. We are thankful to you all for the prayers and support. Today through this update we want to share with you particularly about our village church that needs your prayers and support.\nVillage Church Needs Your P rayers\nSome of you may remember that we planted a small church in a village named Naat Kalaa’n back in 2017-2018. Christian People are very poor and most of them are working in the fields during daytime. We mostly have evening Sunday service with them. When we started, there\n30171542\\_10155237845916470\\_6197721866083878766\\_o IMG\\_1146-1 IMG\\_1500 IMG\\_1439 was not any place for the worship and prayer. One of the families of that village agreed to let us use their yard. Their house is very poorly constructed but, they had a place in front of their house that we could use for the meetings and service. We were very happy and at the start of 2018 we started using that place. It was just open place that we were using for our prayer meetings in a tent.\nThen we planned to have some structure to cover that place so that we could easily have\nIMG\\_4895 IMG\\_4933 03 02-1 meetings there. We requested SGWM and an iron roof covering was approved in 2018.\nWe have been using this place till now. But there is some problem among the family members of landowners. They now want to use that land for house building. one of the family members wants us to continue using the place but other members disagree. We don\u0026rsquo;t want dispute in their family. Some of the family members have asked us to change the place of our church meetings. We have now started house meetings, and every Sunday one family hosts church members and we teach and pray there. But some families have very little place to host all, and it is also impacting our church meetings in the village negatively. So, the congregation of our village church is praying for a proper place for prayer and worship in the village. We feel that we need to buy a piece of land and then build a small church building there. we want to request you to join us in prayer for this need and purpose.\nChurch in the Desert\nWe are very happy to share with you that the church we planted in the desert among some tribes coming from Hindu background is growing well with a smooth progress in gatherings,\nWhatsApp Image 2023-07-23 WhatsApp Image 2023-07-23 at WhatsApp Image 2023-07-23 at 17.45.16 learning, and growing spiritually. We feel so blessed when we see many people who did not know Jesus as their Lord and Savior coming to the church. We continue to reach more groups in the desert to share the Word of God with them through Christian movie, audio Bible, printed Bible and many booklets. The Sewing school is also one big blessing for these people and a great source for us to reach them. Please continue to pray for and with us as we serve here. God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2023/08/12/village-and-desert-church/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Acts 2:42\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, we hope and pray that you all are fine. We are doing good by the grace of God. It is monsoon time here, there are many rains, streets are often flooded with the rainwater, but we thank God that we don\u0026rsquo;t have any major flood problem in the country. Our church, teaching ministry, desert mission and church services are going really well. We are thankful to you all for the prayers and support. Today through this update we want to share with you particularly about our village church that needs your prayers and support.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Village and Desert Church"},{"content":"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? Romans 10:14\nDear Friends\nGreetings from Pakistan, we hope and pray that you all are fine. There was death in our family, my aunt (paternal uncle\u0026rsquo;s wife) went to be with the Lord. According to eastern culture, we all were busy for a more than a week, as the friends and families kept coming for the condolence. Please keep my uncle in your prayers.\nDesert Mission The desert mission started with a visit of the area and then Bible class, now it has grown to be a proper ministry project in South Punjab of Pakistani. At the end of last month our team went there for the mission, and here I want to share two important things in the part 1 update.\nChurch Planting I believe you will be very happy to know that we have planted a Calvary Chapel in the desert area where all those people, who were originally born into Hindu Families, are coming and they are learning the Word of God there. There are hundreds of these families, but there was no proper place for them to come together. This building is going to be a Christian-hub in the desert where they can come, have fellowship, pray and be taught the word of God. Our friend and ministry partner Aftab goes there with his team every week to teach them in the Sunday service. we praise God that many people from Hindu background have started to come there for the service.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-06-18 at 17.56.19 WhatsApp Image 2023-06-18 at 17.56.23 WhatsApp Image 2023-06-18 at 17.56.27 Not only this, but our team is also reaching those who have not yet come to the Lord. We share the message of salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christs with them and have fellowship weekly.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-06-19 at 16.32.32 WhatsApp Image 2023-06-19 at 16.32.34 WhatsApp Image 2023-06-19 at 16.32.31 Sewing Center for the Tribes It was such a joy for us to be able to start a Sewing Center for the women of this area. They are very poor; they serve as slaves to the landlords and their girls are many times mistreated, kidnaped and abused. This center is going to help them learn the skill and start working themselves for their families and community.\n05 01 03 Aftab and team visit this center also and along with encouraging these girls to grow in their skills, we are also able to share the Word of God with them. We praise God for His grace to start such project here.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-06-04 at 17.50.49 WhatsApp Image 2023-06-04 at 17.50.55 WhatsApp Image 2023-06-18 at 17.56.22 WhatsApp Image 2023-06-18 at 17.56.25 We are thankful to our all friends and family for the prayers and support, in the next part of the update we will share some more amazing things that God is doing in this area through Calvary Chapel\u0026rsquo;s Desert Outreach Ministry among the unreached people. Please keep our team and all these wonderful people in your prayers. God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2023/06/24/mission-in-desert-part-1/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?\u003c/em\u003e\nRomans 10:14\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Pakistan, we hope and pray that you all are fine. There was death in our family, my aunt (paternal uncle\u0026rsquo;s wife) went to be with the Lord. According to eastern culture, we all were busy for a more than a week, as the friends and families kept coming for the condolence. Please keep my uncle in your prayers.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Mission in Desert"},{"content":"So, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. Acts 2:46-47\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We hope that you had great Easter time with your family. We all are fine here. We are sorry for delayed update, we had to go to my father\u0026rsquo;s place in the village for some days to have some family time and be with my father. Our families and team members are doing good. Spiring Season is over, and summer is starting, and temperature is already very high like 39 °C (102.2 °F). It will go up to above 50 °C (122 °F). In this severe weather condition, please keep us and our friends and family in your prayers, especially our team that serves near desert and all the people who live in the desert area where we go to teach them.\nEaster Celebration with Different Groups\nEaster time and the Lent season is observed very much in our part of the World. All the 45 days before Easter are important. Every week people have special meetings on Fridays also, so there is great chance to teach people over and over again about the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ and our salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.\nMeeting with University Student\nWe try to reach and teach our Christian university students also and thus we arrange special meetings before Christmas and Easter. A friend of mine named Hunny Manzoor (Lecturer in the University) always makes sures that we have such meetings. These students come from different places, they have many challenges in their classes and also new isms and ideologies have great impact on them as they study. Before this Easter, we had really great time with these wonderful young men and women, we learned about our salvation by the Grace of God.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-04-17 at 6.17.53 PM (1) WhatsApp Image 2023-04-17 at 6.17.30 PM It was really great to share with them some of our books, booklets that we translate and get printed for the new generation to help them know what we believe and why we believe that.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-04-17 at 6.17.54 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-04-04 at 7.05.31 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-04-04 at 7.05.29 PM Home Church Gatherings\nThroughout this Easter Season (normally known as Lent Season) we had different meetings to teach. people are ready at this time to receive more from the Word of God. They are more eager to learn at this time than normal, so this is great time to teach them about some core teachings of the Word of God and help them know more about their Salvation. So, our house meetings and teaching sessions were really great.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-04-09 at 4.41.12 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-04-09 at 4.41.14 PM We praise God for every opportunity that He gives us to share His Word with anyone that is ready to receive. We are happy that we could reach many different groups at different times.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-04-10 at 5.51.44 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-04-10 at 5.51.43 PM Brick Makers\nWe praise God that He has worked so powerfully in the lives of these wonderful people who are living very hard life and they don\u0026rsquo;t even have their basic needs provided. Whenever we go to them, they manage time to study the Word of God with us. These people need your special prayers, love and care.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-04-07 at 10.18.52 AM WhatsApp Image 2023-04-07 at 11.01.30 AM WhatsApp Image 2023-04-07 at 11.01.28 AM Village Church\nOur village church was so much happy during this special time of Easter, they actively participated in all the prayer and Bible study meetings, and on Palm Sunday, very early in the Moring, they were up for a special procession. You can see joy on their faces.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-04-03 at 10.15.34 AM (1) WhatsApp Image 2023-04-03 at 10.15.34 AM WhatsApp Image 2023-04-03 at 10.02.00 AM WhatsApp Image 2023-04-03 at 10.01.59 AM God is so Good, and we praise God that we are able to reach and teach many groups of people here. There are many in the desert area, our team there reaches and teaches them, many in our online Bible study groups and many who are reached through our audio, video and writings. All glory to our Lord and God in heaven. We are thankful to you all for your prayers, love, care and support. We love you all, God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2023/04/17/easter-celebration-fellowship/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo,\u003c/em\u003e \u003cem\u003econtinuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.\u003c/em\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eActs 2:46-47\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We hope that you had great Easter time with your family. We all are fine here. We are sorry for delayed update, we had to go to my father\u0026rsquo;s place in the village for some days to have some family time and be with my father. Our families and team members are doing good. Spiring Season is over, and summer is starting, and temperature is already very high like 39 °C (102.2 °F). It will go up to above 50 °C (122 °F). In this severe weather condition, please keep us and our friends and family in your prayers, especially our team that serves near desert and all the people who live in the desert area where we go to teach them.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Easter Celebration \u0026amp; Fellowship"},{"content":"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.__Philippians 4:13\nDear Friends and family, Greetings in the encouraging, refreshing and strengthen love of Jesus Christ our Lord. We all are fine by the grace of our Lord. Our church in the town, in the village, among the brick makers and now even in the desert is going well, and we praise God that the Word of God is being shared and taught to all we are able to reach.\nStruggling Start\nThe start of the 2023 was a little struggling, there were many things in my \u0026ldquo;To Do List\u0026rdquo;, and I was kind of overwhelmed with those things, especially my book writing plan, and some teaching and recording programs. Because of these all things, I felt myself under much pressure and then I found myself in a tough struggle even spiritually. Then my wife got sick, we were in the hospital, she was complaining about stomach problem, she was not able to eat or drink, as her stomach was not accepting anything. The doctor was giving all the treatment regarding the stomach, but she had gallstone which we did not know and even the doctor did not guide us to go for the proper checkup. It took us almost one week to discover the problem and then the treatment started. So, we were upset for almost two weeks constantly. Medication is still going on; we are advised to have another abdominal ultrasound in the coming week for the doctor to determine the exact location of the stone because it has passed from gallbladder. But we praise God things are better now and family life and ministry work are smooth. We want you to please continue to pray for us all and our team.\n**Praise Report\n** We are thankful to you all for the prayer for the vehicle, we praise God that he provided one and we were able to replace the old one. We had one Toyota Car 2008 for last 12 years and now we are thankful to God for blessing us with one of 2019 model Honda. Thank you so much for the prayers.\nChurch \u0026amp; Online Class\nOur Church in the town is healthy and growing, we finished the book of Revelation by the end of last year and now we are going through the Book of Acts. Village church is led by my friend and brother in Christ Joseph Arif, Brick Maker\u0026rsquo;s fellowship comes under our weekly Outreach,\nWhatsApp Image 2023-03-07 at 10.50.24 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-03-07 at 10.48.58 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-03-07 at 10.45.29 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-03-07 at 10.45.03 PM and we have Friday service with them. Church in the desert is just starting. Our team member Aftab Gill visits them and we will start proper thorough study with them soon. our online classes are great help for many people in different cities, we praise God how the Word of God is transforming the lives of people near and far by His Word. We are thankful to you all for the prayers.\nFoundation of Church in the desert\n332805123\\_758580832190873\\_7273034607368489140\\_n WhatsApp Image 2023-01-15 at 5.46.37 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-12-01 at 5.07.31 AM (1) Hindu Tribal Community is really an amazing mission field. We are regularly working among them and out ream is reaching them faithfully and sharing the Word of God and love of Christ with them. Lord has made this possible for us to plant a church there as He has prepared the hearts of the people.\nDuring our next mission trip to desert, we are praying to plant a church officially and also start a Sewing School for the women and girls of that community. We are also going to have a medical camp for these people to bring some awareness about their heath and provide some common medicines of day-to-day use. We are also training a young man in this area for the Bible study of the children, he is working along with learing.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-01-15 at 3.57.43 PM (4) As I shared in our last update that God has provided us a building in the desert that we will be using for our church services and for Women\u0026rsquo;s training in the Sewing School. Please keep this all in your prayers, we are thankful to you all for the prayers, support and love. We also pray for you and your families. God bless you!\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2023/03/08/spiritual-struggles-and-gods-grace/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.__Philippians 4:13\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family, \u003cbr\u003e\nGreetings in the encouraging, refreshing and strengthen love of Jesus Christ our Lord. We all are fine by the grace of our Lord. Our church in the town, in the village, among the brick makers and now even in the desert is going well, and we praise God that the Word of God is being shared and taught to all we are able to reach.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Spiritual Struggles and God's Grace"},{"content":"Gotherefore andmake disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I amwith you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. Matthew 28:19-20\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings in the name of our Lord, we praise God for His grace and blessings, and we hope that you all are doing good. It is much cold here and some of the basic facilities like natural gas at homes is not available, the houses are very cold and some of the family members are suffering from cold. We hope that by the middle of next month situation will start getting better. We highly appreciate your prayers for our family and team.\nChurch in the Desert\nIn this update I want to share with you about a church that started with our current visit to the desert area. We have been going to that area for some years now. We have been reaching some groups with Hindu background every time and spending some time with them as we shared the Word of God and love of Christ with these tribal people. This time we were invited by a group at a place where someone had built a church some years before. This church building was not being used for the prayers, and the condition of the building was not very good. no proper whitewash, no water, power, no glass in the windows, the floor is just dirt.\nAs the group invited us to share the Word of God, the leader of the tribe called his community members here, we shared the word with them, and we also helped them with the food bags. It was really a wonderful meeting and good connecting time for us with this group.\nThere is a large community of these people that was there to listen to the Word of God. The main person from the area told us that they are very poor, and they cannot even look after the building, and they are most neglect tribes in the area. Their sons and daughters don\u0026rsquo;t have opportunities to learn and grow spiritually. So, they asked us to if we can take them under our church care and lead them spiritually by teaching them. Lord Himself opened the door and their hearts. we praise Him for this. So, we prayed with them and our team, then we planned to whitewash the building.\nthe community was very happy for this and here I want to share the new photos that I recently received of this church building that God provided graciously.\nWhatsApp Image 2022-12-19 at 8.07.42 AM WhatsApp Image 2022-12-19 at 8.08.30 AM WhatsApp Image 2023-01-15 at 3.57.43 PM (2) One of our team members is reaching to this group to teach them, and we are now working hard to start using this building for the proper church services. We want you to please keep this in your prayers.\nWhatsApp Image 2023-01-15 at 5.46.33 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-01-15 at 5.46.37 PM WhatsApp Image 2023-01-15 at 5.46.40 PM This is something really amazing that is going to happen in this desert area. We have been going there for some years, and now we have started to see the fruit where a whole big group is willing to start their spiritual journey with us. Please keep this special church in your prayers!\nRequest from the Tribe\nAs the leader of the trip is willing to help his people grow spiritually and also have some opportunities to lead a better life. He has requested few things which I want to share with you also so that you may pray for these.\nA Sewing Center: the leader of the tribe shared that their girls make different kinds of handy crafts, they need to learn more in order to have better life using their skills, so if we help them with starting a Sewing School here, it will be a great help for the girls to learn sewing and also for coming together to study the Word of God. Electricity and fans: Since this place is in the desert, it gets very hot here, and this place does not have electricity supply and fans, so he requested for this need also so that when people will be in the place for Bible study and church service, they may sit easily during the hot days. Floor pavement, water system and have window glass installed. Help to educate their children: we don\u0026rsquo;t know yet how we can help them with this, but this is a prayer request that we wanted to share with our friends and family. This is really a very special project among the unreached people in the desert, and we will highly appreciate your prayers for the people and also for our team. God bless you; we pray for you and your family.\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2023/01/15/a-church-in-the-desert/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eGotherefore andmake disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I amwith you always, \u003cem\u003eeven\u003c/em\u003e to the end of the age.” Amen.\nMatthew 28:19-20\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings in the name of our Lord, we praise God for His grace and blessings, and we hope that you all are doing good. It is much cold here and some of the basic facilities like natural gas at homes is not available, the houses are very cold and some of the family members are suffering from cold. We hope that by the middle of next month situation will start getting better. We highly appreciate your prayers for our family and team.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A Church in the Desert"},{"content":"","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/give/","summary":"","title":"Give"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.\u0026rdquo; 1 Corinthians 2:2\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings, I hope and pray that you all are fine. We praise God for His love, care and protection. Christmas is coming and the joy is in the air everywhere among Christians. our family is doing good, our church, office staff and team is also fine. We are thankful to all of you for the prayers and support.\nDesert Mission Trip I went to Nepal for the conference in October, it was really good to see all after a long time, but I got Dengue Fever, my time specially nights there in Nepal were really terrible. When I came back, I did not feel well for some time, praise God that I was fully healed and restored by His grace. November is the month of our mission week in the desert, and it is always so amazing to go there.\nWhatsApp Image 2022-11-25 at 9.23.44 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-11-30 at 5.18.21 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-12-01 at 5.07.31 AM (1) WhatsApp Image 2022-12-12 at 11.33.04 AM Reaching the unreached in southern part of our province has impacted our team always very powerfully.\nTwo Days of Teaching\nFor the first two days we arrange two days of teaching in the city area. people come from near and far, sometimes we need to provide them transportation to come to attend our teaching sessions. This practice has really brought great change in the thinking, understanding and lives of the people. Most of the people were highly influenced by the \u0026ldquo;Prosperity Gospel\u0026rdquo; and self-styled, self-proclaimed so-called pastors and televangelist who do not teach the true message of the Bible. We started our teaching program with the idea of \u0026ldquo;Simply Teaching the Word Simply.\u0026rdquo; These Whole Day Teaching practice has been really fruitful, and it has helped people to start studying the Word of God.\n317479670\\_10162256076098098\\_1070697794893647022\\_n 317396690\\_10162256076643098\\_6355553907155474544\\_n 317379226\\_10162256076583098\\_6964156346596641789\\_n 316821039\\_10162261876858098\\_3722848394761403684\\_n Our topic this time was \u0026ldquo;Intersegmental Period and Coming of Jesus.\u0026rdquo; We praise God that it was amazing time of teaching and sharing the love of Christ with all these people. People really loved it, and it was helpful for them to understand New Testament in better way.\n316828052\\_10162261875773098\\_5509992441712973267\\_n 317239278\\_10162261875108098\\_8761476214044088725\\_n 317267671\\_10162261873818098\\_3237833075518866373\\_n 317587682\\_10162261873868098\\_3862415799574322528\\_n We praise God for this all and believe that sowing the seed of the Word of God will be very much helpful and fruitful. Please continue to pray for these areas, people and our team.\nReaching out to those living in the Darkness\nRest of our mission week is dedicated for outreach in the very remote areas in the desert. The life looks very fascinating from the distance, but in reality, it is very tough, people are living in the desert without the basic needs. sick and disable people are in miserable condition without any medical treatment.\nWhatsApp Image 2022-12-01 at 5.07.31 AM (1) 317846415\\_10162265386313098\\_8148751120136867925\\_n WhatsApp Image 2022-12-01 at 5.07.24 AM 317846795\\_10162265386848098\\_8165836748323352545\\_n It is really so amazing to share the love of Jesus Christ and Word of God with these wonderful people. We visited different groups of people in the desert. Most of them come from Hindu background, and many of them have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. We praise God for the amazing work that God did. Thank you for your all support, we were able to share the food bags with these and other people in the desert to help them a little.\n318116271\\_10162265386428098\\_7052306012714551643\\_n 317795161\\_10162265386523098\\_2678736637626115824\\_n 317968581\\_10162265386338098\\_6419959577589474864\\_n A Church in the Desert\nWe came across an amazing thing in the desert this time. We met a group of people coming from the Hindu background and they claimed that they were Christians. we planned to visit them and when we reached there, we found a church building in that area. We were told that someone has built almost 8 churches in the desert at different locations, and that person being old, and sick is not able to visit these places for many years. When we reached there, we were welcomed warmly by a large group of people, and we were so happy that they were singing Christian songs, praying in their Marwari language and confession their belief in Jesus Christ. It was really amazing time to be among this group of people. They only have a church building, there is no pastor and no other church leadership. There were some young men who led other children in Sunday School teaching and activities.\n03 04 \\_MG\\_8096 The name of this church is Calvary Marwari Church; we are praying to bring it under the umbrella of our main church. Please keep this in your prayers.\nStudent Fellowship\nOur mission trip always ends with a special fellowship with our online students in that city. It was amazing to be with them and teach them for an hour on the Paul\u0026rsquo;s exhortation to Timoty to \u0026ldquo;Preach the Word.\u0026rdquo;\nWe give all glory to our Lord and God in heaven, and we want to thank you all our dear brothers and sisters for your prayers, love, care and support. We love you all and we pray for you and your families. We want to wish all of you a \u0026ldquo;Very Merry Christmas!\u0026rdquo;\nin Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2022/12/12/grace-experienced-and-shared/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\n1 Corinthians 2:2\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, I hope and pray that you all are fine. We praise God for His love, care and protection. Christmas is coming and the joy is in the air everywhere among Christians. our family is doing good, our church, office staff and team is also fine. We are thankful to all of you for the prayers and support.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Grace Experienced and Shared"},{"content":"Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,\nBecause His compassions fail not.\nThey are new every morning.\nGreat is Your faithfulness.\nLementations 3:22-24\nDear Friends and Family, Greetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we praise God for His grace and Love for us, He has always blessed and kept us. We are thankful to all of you for the prayers, love and care. We also pray for you all. Very hot and humid summer is over, and the weather is changing fast, but with this change, many issue of the early winter are starting to show up. We praise God that he has kept all of us safe.\nFlood and After-effects\nPakistan suffered very much this year because of the flood. Almost half of the country was affected. So many roads were totally wiped out and it was difficult to reach people with any kind of help. Thank God that flood is over, but after-effects of flood are really bad, that people continue to suffer without house, food and all other basic needs. Because of water all around, there is mosquito all around and it is causing so many people to be sick, many infections and diseases are increasing and spreading very quickly.\nOur team had been working to collect things to support some flood victims near Bahawalpur city, and we praise God that we could reach to a group of some people really in need and helped them with food bags, other household items and also with the word of God.\nThere are still so many areas unreached, we pray for all those to find help and hope at this difficult time.\nDengue Fever in the family\nAfter monsoon the situation gets bad because of mosquitos, and Dengue Fever is very common because of this in these days. So many people are suffering because of this. our 13 years old daughter is also suffering from this fever. The treatment is going on, she is almost the same for last 4-6 days. The doctor says that she will gradually improve, please keep her and all the other people suffering from this fever in your prayers.\nTeaching and Reaching\nWe recently completed the study of book of Revelation and have started the book of Acts at the church. We praise God for being able to reach 5 cities through our Online Bible class. I am also teaching weekly class in \u0026ldquo;Calvary Chapel Bible College South Asia\u0026rdquo; which is really great opportunity for me to teach on international level. Our brick maker\u0026rsquo;s church is going so well. Our recording and translation work is going very well, and we praise God that we have a lot of Urdu study material to offer to anyone.\nWhatsApp Image 2022-10-06 at 4.50.28 PM (2) WhatsApp Image 2022-08-14 at 10.29.46 PM Our outreach work in the Southern part of our province is going well. I am thankful to the team working there. They are really working very hard to reach people with the word and love of Jesus Christ. Please continue to pray for our whole team.\nVehicle Replacement Need\nThrough this update we also want to share a need with all of you. The vehicle that we are using was bought 13 years before. It has been being used accessibly for the ministry and our family work. We are having some problem with that, and whenever we have to travel long distance, we always have to get big fixes and repairs.\nSo, we are praying to replace our current vehicle and get a better and upper model. Please keep this family and ministry need in your prayers.\nWe once again want to thank you for all care, love and support. We pray for you and your families. God bless and protect you every day.\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2022/10/13/his-grace-sustains-us-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThrough the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eBecause His compassions fail not.\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThey are new every morning.\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eGreat is Your faithfulness.\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nLementations 3:22-24\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family, \u003cbr\u003e\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we praise God for His grace and Love for us, He has always blessed and kept us. We are thankful to all of you for the prayers, love and care. We also pray for you all. Very hot and humid summer is over, and the weather is changing fast, but with this change, many issue of the early winter are starting to show up. We praise God that he has kept all of us safe.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"His Grace Sustains Us"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.\u0026rdquo; ___1 Corinthians 10:13\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings and many blessings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We all are fine by the grace of God, and we pray for you and your families. The summer is almost ending, and the change in the weather is affecting many people\u0026rsquo;s health. Few members of our family suffered because of high fever, now things are better. We highly appreciate your prayers for us!\n**Flood Situation in Pakistan\n** Our Country is suffering because of really bad flooding, almost half of the country was affected because of heavy rains and flood that wiped out so many villages, destroyed infrastructure, killed so many people, animals and buried crops.\n821607c5-2d87-45c4-927e-b59c66617e08 pakistan\\_flood\\_2010 folee It is so sad, and our country had such a great loss because of this all, and more painful for this reason that most of the suffering people are very poor, they have lost their whole world. We want to request you all to please pray for our country, particularly those suffering because of this disastrous flood. Our team in South Punjab has started a camp where we are receiving\n303731246\\_2906622342973430\\_5722448162839797873\\_n 303675004\\_2906621982973466\\_3693116482070476379\\_n 302299793\\_2906621456306852\\_7390769275671197539\\_n help from the local people to send some kind of support to these needy people. Please keep this whole team in your prayers and if Lord leads you to send some support, you may send that to Saving Grace World Missions. **\n**\nBringing Children to Christ\nWe at CC Pakistan have never underestimated evangelizing and teaching Children about Jesus Christ. Along with another ministry that particularly works among/for Children we have been arranging trainings for Sunday Schools and providing children with the teaching material.\nWhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.34 PM (1) WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.31 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.46 PM Recently we were able to organize different events in coordination with Pakistan Sunday School Ministry where gift boxes and Sunday School books were given to hundreds of children. The gift boxes that children are receiving are coming from \u0026ldquo;Samaritan Purse\u0026rdquo; to Pakistan Sunday School Ministry. We still have more programs planned with this organization where we are reaching out to Sunday School Teachers, and many children groups even in the desert area.\nWhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.37 PM (1) WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.34 PM (2) WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.42 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.33 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.38 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.31 PM (1) WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.30 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-08-02 at 8.57.43 PM Many groups in the desert area are in the training process and very soon we will also be reaching hundreds of children there with new Study material and these gift boxes with the help and cooperation of Pakistan Sunday School Ministry.\nEquipping the Church Leadership\nAs part of Calvary Chapel Family, teaching the Word of God in the simplest manner is our first and foremost priority. We not only teach the word of God, but we are always working to produce helpful resources in our language so that other people may also learn about the word in dept and grow. We have translated some parts of Pastor David Guzik\u0026rsquo;s Commentary, namely \u0026ldquo;Gospel of John, Book of Acts, Philemon and Jude\u0026rdquo; in Urdu. Recently we received request\nfrom a pastor to help him provide with the Urdu translation of \u0026ldquo;Book of Acts Commentary\u0026rdquo; and we praise God that the work we did for the translation is very much helpful for many of those who are studying in order to teach. Some books that we already completed are in printing process, one of them is \u0026ldquo;Effective Prayer Life\u0026rdquo; by Pastor Chuck Smith which has always been really helpful for so many people in the past.\nWe are also working on \u0026ldquo;Calvary Chapel Distinctives\u0026rdquo; and the translation work of that will be complete soon, so that our new Calvary Chapel Pastors in future and our church members may learn well about Calvary Chapel also in better way. I am thankful to our team that is very much dedicated, and we praise God for His grace that gives us power, encouragement and motivation to labor in His Holy Word in this way which will be there for long time even after our lives and ministries end. Thank you again for the prayers for us all.\nMission in the Desert\nWe have our online weekly class where we are teaching \u0026ldquo;Through the Bible\u0026rdquo; verse by verse,\npeople from five different cities and locations get together to learn through this. We started this class for a group near desert. We praise God that this one class has been helpful for so many people that they are coming continually to attend this online meeting. This online Bible class served as basis for the outreach mission in the desert. Our team is constantly reaching the\nunreached areas in their neighboring and they are reaching, teaching encouraging and building these preciouses souls in their Christian faith as they share the Love of Christ Jesus with them.\nBesides this all, our church services, ministry to brick makers, women ministry and other teaching, recording activities are going well. Thank you so much for your prayers, we are always thankful to you, and we pray for you and your families.\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2022/09/08/pakistan-need-prayers/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e ___1 Corinthians 10:13\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and many blessings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We all are fine by the grace of God, and we pray for you and your families. The summer is almost ending, and the change in the weather is affecting many people\u0026rsquo;s health. Few members of our family suffered because of high fever, now things are better. We highly appreciate your prayers for us!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Pakistan Need Prayers"},{"content":"Audio Ease Altiverb XL Crack\nGo therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen!\nMatthew 28:19-20\nDear Friends and family.\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We all are fine by the grace of God. The monsoon has started and it is very hot and humid here these days. Everyone in the church and in our church office is fine. We are thankful to you all for prayers, care and support.\nReaching people in the Desert Area\nAs you know we have a an outreach mission in the desert area where we are able to reach many unreached people groups and families. We have online Bible classes in the area and also whole- day teaching activities along with special outreach program. These people in the desert are really very disadvantaged, they lead very tough life and they don\u0026rsquo;t have even basic needs of life. All the time they are struggling with their survival issues. During the summer time their life gets tougher than ever as most of them don\u0026rsquo;t have electricity, no water supply. They have to travel much distances to get water for them to drink and also for their animals.\nWhatsApp Image 2022-07-01 at 10.41.56 PM Their life does not allow them to think about anything else but their survival, but when you go to them, they are very hospitable. They give their time and listen to us and also share what they can.\nEvangelism Among Groups in Desert\nWe are reaching these areas which are very far from the city. the roads are not good and it is not possible for the team to get back to the city. So many times our team stays in those areas with these people. The evenings and night time is the best time for the meeting with these people because it\u0026rsquo;s when they get free from their work\n15 16 26 13 WhatsApp Image 2022-07-01 at 9.54.16 AM WhatsApp Image 2022-06-25 at 2.04.25 PM There are some groups that we can reach again for follow-up but not to all the groups. So we leave with them Audio devices with Bible on it, and any kind of helpful stuff that they can use for their spiritual growth. We have Gospels picturized (video format) that we show them, we leave some SD cards with them to put in their phones and we pray with them, encourage them in the Lord and share the love of Jesus Christ in the best possible way with these precious souls. Please keep the whole team in your special prayers.\nWater-Pumps project\nWe\u0026rsquo;ve also started installing water-pumps at the places of different groups who travel far in order to get drinking water. Right now we are working on installing 10 water-pumps for different groups and families. This is great help for them and this also is opening doors for us to reach them and share the Word of God with them.\n28 20 25 21 22 24 We are once again thankful to you for the payers, love and support. Please continue to pray for Calvary Chapel Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s all other ministries and activities for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2022/07/11/people-living-in-darkness-being-reached/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://truevst.com/audio-ease-altiverb-xl-crack/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudio Ease Altiverb XL Crack\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGo therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen!\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMatthew 28:19-20\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family.\u003cbr\u003e\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We all are fine by the grace of God. The monsoon has started and it is very hot and humid here these days. Everyone in the church and in our church office is fine. We are thankful to you all for prayers, care and support.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"People Living in Darkness being Reached"},{"content":"Voxengo OldSkoolVerb VST Crack\nHow then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those whopreach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”_ Romans 10:14-15\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Pakistan! We hope and pray that you all are doing well. We all here are fine by the Grace of God. Church activities are going well. We are thankful to you all for the prayers, love and care.\nDesert Mission\nLast month our team reached the city of Bahawalpur which is located at the edge of Cholistan Desert. We have our online class in that city with more than 40 students every week. Every year we have two planned Mission Weeks (trips) to this city where we see our students, have some whole days of teachings, go out to reach people in the remote areas to share with them Gospel, printed Bibles, Christian Song books, small Christian booklets, audio Bibles and the Love of Jesus Christ.\nOur plan to reach the area was in March, but we could not go there in March because of some reasons. So we went there in May, it was very hot, in those days the temperature was 118.4°F, but we praise God that it was all great , we were able to do all that we had planned for the mission week and it was very fruitful mission week there. Here I want to share a little about the activities of our mission week this time:\nSession with Students: Our friend and staff member George Alfred taught in this special session arranged for our online students, their families and other participants from the area. He taught about Comparative Introduction of the Gospels, and it was really helpful for all participants to see the bigger picture, see the differences and similarities of the Gospels, have knowledge about the authors, dates of writing, main audiences, main themes of the gospels and much more.\nWhole Day Teaching\nTwo years before we used to spend our whole time in outreaching. We used to go to different villages, and different groups of people to share the word of God with them. but last year during our first mission trip to desert we planned to have two days of teaching. We invited people from near and far and we did some training and taught them. This was really great experience, so now, we always have two whole days of teaching in our every mission week. People travel from nearby areas through public transport and sometimes we arrange some vehicles for some of the groups to arrive at our teaching location.\nTrue Worship: Our first day of teaching was on the topic of \u0026ldquo;True Worship\u0026rdquo;. We learned from OT and NT about the importance of Worshiping our God and the way He wants us to worship Him along with awareness about false ways of Worshiping God. Both sessions of this day\u0026rsquo;s teaching were very powerful and very helpful for the people.\nBible \u0026amp; Science: Our day of Second teaching was on \u0026ldquo;Bible and Science\u0026rdquo;. Every time we teach there, one of our main topics is always about the authenticity of the Bible as people face many questions about that. This day of teaching was so much fantastic and people were about to think bigger about the Bible.\nGospel Film: We have Gospel films produced by Lumo Project in Urdu language. The whole Gospel is picturized chapter by chapter and in about 3 hours, one whole Gospel can be seen in the film form. We selected the Gospel of Luke and it was really amazing for all of us with so many people go through the whole Gospel in one sitting. We also provided those Gospel films to people so that they can watch them at their homes.\nVisit to Desert: One day we went to the desert early morning, it was really amazing to see the life and nature there. As the sun started rising, very dry and hot wind started blowing and we started feeling exhausted very quickly. In that desert, at different places live many different tribes of people. We have been reaching to many of them and in our next trip we want to visit more. Their life is very tough, and they need not only the Gospel, but they need to experience the Love of Jesus Christ as well.\nAll the study material and tools we took there for the team working in that area, for sharing the Gospel were given to them and they are serving the Lord there with great joy and enthusiasm. Please continue to pray for us all, we pray for you and your families.\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2022/06/04/mission-in-the-desert-area/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://truevst.com/voxengo-oldskoolverb-plus-crack/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVoxengo OldSkoolVerb VST Crack\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those whopreach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”\u003c/em\u003e_ Romans 10:14-15\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Mission in the Desert Area"},{"content":"Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.___2 Timothy 4:2\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we praise God for His grace for us all and thank Him for all that He is doing in and through our lives. We all are fine by the grace of God and pray for our all friends and family to be safe and fine. We are also thankful to you all for the prayers, support and encouragement in all possible ways.\nPreaching the Word of God to New Generation\nIt is always on our hearts to reach, preach and teach our new generation. We see great gap between those traditional Christians majority that feels great attraction towards prosperity teaching and televangelists, and those young people who are going to universities and are more logical and rational. Since so many churches are not engaging these people very well, a large number of these young people feel that they don\u0026rsquo;t need church and their Christian teachings anymore. We\u0026rsquo;ve been always seeking opportunities to reach these groups and engage them in Bible studies with us. Our online Bible studies are going really well and those who come to those studies feel really blessed.\nA seminar on Christology\nAt the end of last month, we organized a seminar in our town on the topic of \u0026ldquo;Christology: The Way, The Truth, and The Life\u0026rdquo;. We praise God that more thank 100 young men and women came to attend that seminar It was really great blessing for them all and for our team as well. We are trying to arrange more events like this to reach and teach these young people.\n01 02 03 04 05 06 Special Fellowship with University Students\nThere are about 70 Christian students in a university in our town. They know us well, we invited them to our Christmas program last time. Now as they organized one Get-Together of all Christian students they invited me to share the Word with them. It was really blessed time for us all. We feel so blessed to share the Word with these very wonderful young men and women. We are connected with this group and we have offered them all kind of help for their Christian faith and Bible study.\n01 02 03 04 05 06 My Book-A great Help for Students\nI praise God that I was able to write my first book on Christian Apologetics. The book is being used in a couple of Bible Colleges as Text Book on this topic. I was so blessed to be invited on the Convocation of Baptist Bible College Lahore as they used my book to teach their Students on the topic of Christian Apologetics. Students were very happy to share how helpful that book was for them. I really praise God that my effort is so helpful for these young people who are going to be leaders in the church. I am working on my second book about Spiritual Discernment and Mormonism. please continue to pray for me and my this writing project.\n1 02 03 Brick Makers\nReaching out to the Brick Makers for all these years has been great joy and blessing for us and also for them. They live outside of town and are considered outcast of the society. We praise our Lord Jesus Christ for setting great example for us to be one with people. We cannot explain the joy that this particular ministry gives each one of our team members. It is always so joyful to minister to these wonderful people. Please continue to pray for all these families.\nNews from Desert\nWe feel so happy to share with you that a group of Hindu tribe in the desert that we have been visiting, sent us some photos and videos recently. we felt very happy seeing them singing Christian songs and a boy sharing the Word with them. We\u0026rsquo;ve been going to them during all our mission trips in the desert. Please continue to pray for our up-coming mission trip as well.\nWe are thankful to you all once again, please continue to pray for our whole team, our families and all the people we are reaching, teaching and ministering to. God bless you all!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2022/04/15/preaching-the-word/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.\u003c/em\u003e___2 Timothy 4:2\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we praise God for His grace for us all and thank Him for all that He is doing in and through our lives. We all are fine by the grace of God and pray for our all friends and family to be safe and fine. We are also thankful to you all for the prayers, support and encouragement in all possible ways.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Preaching the Word"},{"content":"For “whoever callson the name of theLordshall be saved.”How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?__Romans 10:13-15\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We always praise God for Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We want to thank all of you who are there for us, praying, encouraging and helping in all possible ways. For last 14 years, we have been receiving your great love and care, and it has always helped us to remain focused on serving the Lord here in Pakistan.\nChurch and Teaching Our church is going really well, we are studying the book of Revelation for last six months, and it is really amazing to study the book with our church which is studied least here and people have so many misconceptions about the book apart from all the eschatological views.\nIn our weekly online studies in five cities now, we are studying the book of Genesis (every Tuesday, once a week). I cannot explain the joy when people contact us and say that this is the first time that they have come to know biblical teaching in the book along with many cultural facts and history to understand the book. We praise God for that all.\n01 02 0 The third main thing is our weekly video teaching which is being received truly well. Along with some other recording (full courses and studies, being recorded slowly and gradually) we are recording Bible\u0026rsquo;s book overview and it is being posted on facebook, youtube and shared through some other media platforms every week. It truly is much work, and we praise God for the energy that He gives us. Thanks for your prayers. But through this update I specially want to share with you about our outreach evangelism and women ministry.\nOutreach Evangelism Desert Area: We have a wonderful brother near the desert whose main responsibility is to arrange and organize our weekly online class in his city, but God has really filled his heart to reach other people and share the Word with them. For many days every week he is travelling and reaching people with the Word. He has Bibles, song books and scriptural booklets. Thus he is reaching and teaching hundreds of people in his area. WhatsApp Image 2022-02-21 at 2.17.04 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-02-22 at 12.24.28 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-02-22 at 12.24.32 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-02-22 at 12.24.58 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-02-22 at 12.25.17 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-01 at 10.29.19 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-13 at 7.00.28 AM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-13 at 6.54.42 AM WhatsApp Image 2022-02-22 at 12.24.29 PM Brick Makers: In our own area, we have different groups of brick makers that we are reaching. We praise God for the opportunity to be with them, encourage them and teach them. Though they are so much oppressed in their lives, but spiritually they are growing and becoming stronger. We have really heart touching testimonies from these people and we give God all glory for His great work in and through our lives among all these wonderful people He loves. WhatsApp Image 2022-03-14 at 10.54.10 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-14 at 10.54.15 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-14 at 10.54.14 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-14 at 10.52.56 PM We have some other friends working among children and other brick makers, we try to provide them with bible study material, scriptural booklets etc. and they are reaching and teaching different groups.\n**_Women Ministry _**\nWe have not been updating much about Women ministry during last many months. This ministry also has been growing in an amazing way. My wife has been reaching and teaching ladies in the remote areas every week (she is doing that regularly). Now God has opened a door for her to teach to different groups of women in a very organized manner. She has volunteered herself to teach daily in a Women Bible Training Center where young Christian girls, Christian working women specially nurses, pastors\u0026rsquo; wives, and Sunday School teachers come. We really praise God for all the wonderful ways in which he is using our lives here in Pakistan for His name\u0026rsquo;s glory.\nWhatsApp Image 2022-03-11 at 2.11.03 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-11 at 2.07.03 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-11 at 2.07.04 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-11 at 2.07.05 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-11 at 2.08.56 PM WhatsApp Image 2022-03-11 at 2.07.36 PM Urdu Bibles Every year we give hundreds of Urdu Bibles to the people who don\u0026rsquo;t even have a Bible at their home. We are thankful to you for the support for the Bibles and for all the other ministry work. Thank you very much once again, please continue to pray for us, and our upcoming mission trips to the desert area where we have whole day teaching and training. God bless you and your families.\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2022/03/14/reaching-the-unreached-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor “whoever callson the name of theLordshall be saved.”How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?__Romans 10:13-15\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We always praise God for Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We want to thank all of you who are there for us, praying, encouraging and helping in all possible ways. For last 14 years, we have been receiving your great love and care, and it has always helped us to remain focused on serving the Lord here in Pakistan.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Reaching the Unreached"},{"content":"AVG PC Tuneup Crack\nBecause of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” ___ Lamentations 3:22-24\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings, We all are fine and pray for all of you to be fine and safe by our Heavenly Father\u0026rsquo;s Grace. We praise God for His Grace that always covers us and enable us to continue our journey of serving Him, we are thankful to all of you for the prayers and support.\nSnow and Sickness\nWe started our new year with really great enthusiasm, and we praise God for another year of His mercy in our lives. Our family planned to go to northern area in our country for few days during the first week of January to see snow and spend some good time there. It was really awesome to be at that place, we really had good time and we were very happy to see this aspect of natural life.\n272856912\\_1600458893641197\\_8422793373067731098\\_n 273681252\\_629035765016404\\_4580737666217568224\\_n While we were fascinated by the life in the mountain and snow, we also learned how difficult it was to live in such weather. Everyday everything depends on the weather, and sometimes we felt stuck in the house during heavy snow fall whole day.\n273819898\\_280106850742458\\_4245073856223170821\\_n 273553077\\_639472777257116\\_8122147014548326842\\_n God brought us back safely from that place, but just after a week, all of us in the family started to be sick one by one. I was not well for more than one week, my wife, and all the children were sick with cold and fever. So the month of January was quite good but also tough as well for our family. We all are fully fine now and life is back on the same routine. We are thankful to all of our friends and family who kept us in prayers. God bless you all.\nMinistry work Resumes\nWe praise God that the ministry work is back on the routine and our online classes, our recording and outreach Evangelism activities are going on well once again. We give glory to God for all the work that is taking place in Pakistan.\n273174550\\_10161533808293098\\_4765680446150421259\\_n 273046451\\_10161533807973098\\_6466601286107735710\\_n 04 01 We are thankful to all of you to keep us in your prayers, we look forward to accomplish much through our ministry work during this year, therefore we want to request all of you to please continue to pray for us. We pray for you and your family. God bless you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2022/02/11/a-humble-start-but-his-grace-is-sufficient/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://windowsactivators.org/avg-pc-tuneup-key/\"\u003eAVG PC Tuneup Crack\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBecause of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”  ___ Lamentations 3:22-24\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, We all are fine and pray for all of you to be fine and safe by our Heavenly Father\u0026rsquo;s Grace. We praise God for His Grace that always covers us and enable us to continue our journey of serving Him, we are thankful to all of you for the prayers and support.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A Humble Start, but His Grace is Sufficient"},{"content":" Dear Friends and Family,\nMerry Christmas! We hope and pray that you are fine. We praise God for all of His blessings, protection and love. It is the end of year 2021, and we are thankful to all of you for the payers, love and care. It was indeed a very blessed year, a very fruitful year here at Calvary Chapel Pakistan.\nWe praise God that:\nOur Christian organization got registered this year after 3 years\u0026rsquo; struggle and we are moving ahead with new things. Our online classes continued now in five cities, teaching more than 130 people every week. We were able to translated more than 1000 Christian theological articles into Urdu language which are really helpful for all of our students and many other people. Pastor David Guzik\u0026rsquo;s Commentary on Acts was translated into Urdu this year. Commentary on John and Jude were translated previously. We translated and complied two very helpful books for Bible study each containing more than 300 pages. One is \u0026ldquo;Outline of every chapter of the Bible\u0026rdquo; and the other is \u0026ldquo;Survey of the Books of the Bible.\u0026rdquo; Our outreaching ministry got extended to some more unreached people and groups where we are reaching and teaching more Christians to grow spiritually. Our both mission trips to the desert area were very very fruitful, we organized special whole day training and teaching sessions this year and it was awesome! Calvary Chapel Pakistan received a container of free Scriptural booklets from World Missionary Press Inc. this year! Our recorded classes and material is helpful for the people to get connected with us and grow in their Biblical understanding. Recently We had our mission trip in the desert, here we want to share few photos of the mission week with you.\nOutreach and teaching to Hindu Tribes\nThis time we were able to visit two different Hindu tribes and were able to share the love of Christ and also the gospel of salvation along with food bags:\n01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Two whole day teaching sessions\nWe arranged two full day teaching sessions and our topics for both day respectively were Authenticity of the Bible and Christology. This was totally new experiment in this area and it was really fruitful.\n01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Special Teaching sessions with our online Students.\nWe had two teaching sessions with our students where I taught about gospel of Luke and book of Acts, mainly overview of the book of Acts and information about it\u0026rsquo;s author.\n01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 Outreach Evangelism\nWe reached some new areas which were considered unreached, we received request from those areas many times. It was great to share the word of God with them and also provide them Bibles.\n01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 There is much more that God is doing through CC Pakistan among the brick makers, women and small weekly Bible study groups. Please continue to pray for us all. God bless you and your families. Have a very blessed Christmas time and very blessed New Year!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2021/12/16/a-blessed-year-indeed/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2021/12/01210.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2021/12/01210-300x62.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Dear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMerry Christmas! We hope and pray that you are fine. We praise God for all of His blessings, protection and love. It is the end of year 2021, and we are thankful to all of you for the payers, love and care. It was indeed a very blessed year, a very fruitful year here at Calvary Chapel Pakistan.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe praise God that:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur Christian organization got registered  this year after 3 years\u0026rsquo; struggle and we are moving ahead with new things.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur online classes continued now in five cities, teaching more than 130 people every week.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe were able to translated more than 1000 Christian theological articles into Urdu language which are really helpful for all of our students and many other people.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePastor David Guzik\u0026rsquo;s Commentary on \u003cem\u003eActs\u003c/em\u003e was translated into Urdu this year.  Commentary on John and Jude were translated previously.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe translated and complied two very helpful books for Bible study each containing more than 300 pages. One is \u0026ldquo;Outline of every chapter of the Bible\u0026rdquo; and the other is \u0026ldquo;Survey of the Books of the Bible.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur outreaching ministry got extended to some more unreached people and groups where we are reaching and teaching more Christians to grow spiritually.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur both mission trips to the desert area were very very fruitful, we organized special whole day training and teaching sessions this year and it was awesome!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalvary Chapel Pakistan received a container of free Scriptural booklets from World Missionary Press Inc. this year!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur recorded classes and material is helpful for the people to get connected with us and grow in their Biblical understanding.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecently We had our mission trip in the desert, here we want to share few photos of the mission week with you.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A Blessed Year Indeed!"},{"content":"Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage\u0026ndash;with great patience and careful instruction._______\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Pakistan, we all at CC Pakistan are fine by the grace of God, the ministry also is going well. There have been some health issues in the last two months, but by the grace of God all is almost fine. I had some dental treatment and my wife had some stomach issues. She is still on medication. We know that you all pray for us and that is always great encouragement for us. We also pray for you and your family.\nMinistry of the Word in other cities\nFrom the very start of our ministry God laid on our hearts to focus on the ministry of the Word, as the power of the Word of God changed our lives forever. We also experienced that teaching the word of God has been changing lives around us through our humble ministry. So most of our energy always goes to some kind of teaching of the Word of God. Some times it was disappointing as many people have so many other attractions. But we have always believed that His Word will never return void. So we praise God that we have started seeing the fruit of it. Many people who are connected with us in different cities, they are serving and particularly teaching the word of God and they send us the praise report through photos. Here we want to share few glimpses with you and request you to please continue to pray.\nBahawalpur City (Near Desert)\nOur friend brother Aftab has great passion to reach out to the unreached people in his area. CC Pakistan provides Bibles, Christian song books and other booklets to Aftab and his team. He travels every week to reach many different areas with the word of God, he provides people with\n01 04 05 02 Bibles and other study material. And he is the one who also organizes our weekly Bible class in his city where more than 40 people are studying the Book of Genesis with us currently.\nSahiwal City\nOur dear brother Suleman is a seminary graduate, he has been in contact with us during all his student life at the seminary in our town. He is really wonderful person and loves teaching the\n07 06 word of God. He really likes Calvary Chapel\u0026rsquo;s way of serving and our focus to teach the Word of God to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ and God the father. We pray for him to be part of our team officially, right now he is learning from us in our weekly classes and also teaching in his town to a group of young people. He is also involved in outreach evangelism in his area by reaching the unreached Christians and by helping them in any possible way like providing printed/audio Bibles and other study material. Please keep him in your prayers.\nFaisalabad City\nA brother in Christ named Dilawar came into contact with us some years before. Now he is regular Bible student at our weekly class. He has developed really great interest to study the word of God during all these years after by studying in our classes. He and his wife are leading some\n10 09 Children Bible study groups at their house. Calvary Chapel Pakistan has also been providing Children Bibles, scriptural booklets and audio Bibles to this couple. They are doing amazing job and are equipping many children with the understanding of their Christian faith.\nSheikhupura City\nIn this city we have two online Bible classes going on. This is the place where I\u0026rsquo;ve been invited most of the time to teach. people love the Word of God, and our online students are really\n0002 16 happy for the verse by verse Bible study. We have two groups of students in two different areas of this city and during this current visit for fellowship and teaching at a place, an other group is willing to join us in the study. This is so amazing that while so much prosperity teaching, and different manifestation are going around them, they are listening from other people about our Bible studies and are desirous go join in.\nWomen Ministry\nThe women ministry is going really well, Farah\u0026rsquo;s all seminary study has been so helpful and she has been developing new classes for these women for better Bible study and also for\n13 14 15 Biblical counseling. This is really amazing ministry as most of the time, teaching Bible to the women is neglected in our society. We praise God for all that He is doing through this ministry. thanks for keeping this in prayers and always supporting CC Pakistan to continue this ministry.\nUpcoming Training and Mission\nCurrent we have prayerfully planned to go to our second mission trip of year 2021 in the desert area. Last time we invited, hosted and provided training for Children ministry to about 200 people from the surrounding areas, along with reaching out to people in the desert and having some special teaching sessions with our students there.\nDuring this visit we have once again planned teaching for two whole days and we are expecting 100 church leaders there. One day we will be teaching about the \u0026ldquo;Person of Jesus Christ\u0026rdquo; (Christology) and the other day we will be teaching on Authenticity of the Bible. Besides this we have plan to reach some areas, have fellowship, provide Bibles to people, pray and teach here. We will be reaching some tribal people also in the desert. Please continue to keep this all in your prayers.\nThere is much more that God is doing through CC Pakistan like reaching out to brick makers, our church services, much of the translation of the Biblical study material and audio/video recording. Please continue to pray for this all and also for us all. Thank you very much for your all care, prayers and support. In Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2021/11/01/ministry-of-the-word-of-god/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePreach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage\u0026ndash;with great patience and careful instruction._______\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Pakistan, we all at CC Pakistan are fine by the grace of God, the ministry also is going well. There have been some health issues in the last two months, but by the grace of God all is almost fine. I had some dental treatment and my wife had some stomach issues. She is still on medication. We know that you all pray for us and that is always great encouragement for us. We also pray for you and your family.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Ministry of the Word of God"},{"content":"But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. ___Isaiah 40:31\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings, from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we praise God that we all are fine by the grace of God, and we pray for all of you and your families to be fine. The weather is changing rapidly here and the official start of the winter season is just at the doorstep at this point.\nSickness and Recovery\nLast month has been tough in this sense that it brought with it spread of fever all around and as the Covid-19 pandemic still continues to spread and kill many, this kind of fever and sickness has much horror attached with it. Our family also suffered from it, during the middle of last month I felt weakness and fever, but I though it will go away in a day or two. In next few days, there were different kinds of body aches and then suddenly I lost the senses of smell and taste. It was really horrifying for me humanely speaking, though spiritually I had much encouragement. I had medical tests and was diagnosed with an attack of Covid-19. Next two weeks were not easy, the medication continued and finally by the grace of God and prayers of all of you dear friends and family I am fine. The weakness because of that sickness of three weeks is still there but I am getting better day by day.\nDuring this time, my wife started having stomachache, we thought she had kidney pain, because it was the case in the past, but after medical check up we learned that she has stomach ulcer. She is now on medication for next two weeks, we believe that she will be fully recovered from this soon, we want to ask you for your prayers.\nChurch/Ministry/Bible Classes\nWe praise God that our church, ministry and Bible classes are goin on again as routine. We are thankful to you all for the prayers. Our online classes and weekly classes at our home have started again.\nWhatsApp Image 2021-09-12 at 6.14.00 AM WhatsApp Image 2021-09-12 at 6.13.59 AM Screenshot (153) WhatsApp Image 2021-08-17 at 10.36.28 PM (1) Our ministry among brickmakers has some really awesome results. We are teaching the Word of God to these simply and depressed people and many of them are being convicted and are coming forward to be baptized to proclaim God\u0026rsquo;s saving work through His grace in their lives.\nWhatsApp Image 2021-09-11 at 10.00.15 AM WhatsApp Image 2021-09-10 at 1.15.29 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-09-10 at 1.15.35 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-09-10 at 1.15.34 PM Our ministry in the desert area is going really well. Our friends there in the desert area not only arrange our weekly Bible study class there, but they travel to different areas with Bibles, free books, audio Bibles and minister to the unreached people near and far.\nWhatsApp Image 2021-09-13 at 11.05.10 AM WhatsApp Image 2021-09-13 at 11.04.12 AM Our village church is thriving and people are growing spiritually. We have evening service in the village when all these peasants get free from their work and get together at church for worship and prayer. We are going through the the gospels in our teaching to these villagers.\nWhatsApp Image 2021-09-13 at 9.46.47 AM WhatsApp Image 2021-09-13 at 9.27.03 AM We are thankful to you all for the prayers, support and care. We praise God for what He has always been doing here through CC Pakistan. Please continue to pray for us. God bless you all!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2021/09/13/his-grace-sustains-us/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.\u003c/em\u003e ___Isaiah 40:31\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we praise God that we all are fine by the grace of God, and we pray for all of you and your families to be fine. The weather is changing rapidly here and the official start of the winter season is just at the doorstep at this point.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"His Grace Sustains Us"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.\u0026rdquo;\nPsalm 145:4\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Pakistan, we praise God that we all are fine, we hope and pray that you and your families are also fine. Our Bible Study Groups, Brick maker\u0026rsquo;s group, Church and team members are fine. The severity of the hot weather is also decreasing because of the monsoon, and ministry work goes on as routine.\nSpecial Training Program Near Desert\nIn the month of June we organized a Sunday School Teachers\u0026rsquo; Training program in a city near Cholistan desert. This is much neglected area, church is not as much active as it should have been there, and most of the people live tough and disadvantaged life. The new generation has\n1 2 3 not been taken care of for the formal and spiritual education. We along with another ministry which specifically works for the children arranged a special three days training program there.\nIMG\\_1699 IMG\\_1821 IMG\\_1694 It was very hot weather and we were expecting about 50 to 70 people there, but it was amazing to see that almost 200+ people were there for the training. It was really great blessing for all of us. We not only provided training to these people but also free study material for them to start Sunday Schools in their areas. These all people came from about 17 different villages and towns from the surrounding areas.\nThis area has always been under the heavy influence of the prosperity teachers. Such activities like training and helping them to grow and start teaching their own children in the churches is something new for them. We are in touch with them and we will be having more trainings with them in the future. Please keep this area and our ministry work here in your prayers.\nFellowship with Online Students\nI teach three groups online every week. when God gives me opportunity to go and be with them personally, that is really great time. these times of fellowship really bless and refresh us all spiritually.\nIMG\\_1548 IMG\\_1554 IMG\\_1586 During these times I normally teach them on a specific topic. During this fellowship time our topic was \u0026ldquo;True Worship\u0026rdquo; and it was really helpful for all of us to see contemporary worship music, trends, tendencies and the concept of worship during this modern time and then compare that with the teaching of the Word of God about \u0026ldquo;True Worship\u0026rdquo;.\nVacation with family and team members\nLast month we have an opportunity to participate in a conference on the topic of \u0026ldquo;Biblical Interpretation (Hermeneutics) at a beautifully place in mountains. It was good to be at that\nWhatsApp Image 2021-07-21 at 8.17.17 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-07-24 at 7.30.49 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-07-26 at 7.06.23 PM refreshing and cool place for almost a week. Our whole team was really happy for this all. Our team members from the desert area had never seen mountains in their lives, so it was really\nWhatsApp Image 2021-07-24 at 5.16.31 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-07-24 at 4.11.20 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-07-24 at 4.11.19 PM amazing time for them to be there. We all had beautiful fellowship and and a very blessed time together.\nWe praise God for all that He has always been doing in our lives and also through our lives. We give Him all glory and praise Him for this. We are thankful to you all for your love, care, support and prayers. Thank you so much! We love you and pray for you and your families. In Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2021/08/06/equipping-new-generation/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nPsalm 145:4\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Pakistan, we praise God that we all are fine, we hope and pray that you and your families are also fine. Our Bible Study Groups, Brick maker\u0026rsquo;s group, Church and team members are fine. The severity of the hot weather is also decreasing because of the monsoon, and ministry work goes on as routine.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Equipping New Generation"},{"content":"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. ___1 Peter 3:15\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, our families and whole team is fine. We praise God for His grace. It is very hot here, the highest temperature during the day time normally is 46° (114.8 Fahrenheit).God is good that we all are safe and all the church/ministry activities are going well.\nReaching the other Cities\nThese days we have very routine church activities like church services, online classes and recording. Online classes have been so effective that those who have been learning from our classes have started to work in their areas and the word of God is reaching more people in other cities as well. Here I want to share a little about what God is doing and how the lives of people are being blessed by teaching they receive from Calvary Chapel Pakistan.\nBahawalpur City\nThis is city is at the brim of desert. We have our online classes here, and not only that, our friend and team member Aftab is reaching many people in the surrounding areas. We will be visiting this city very soon for a training there and also for some teaching sessions. We praise God for what He is doing through this all, we are thankful to you for the prayers and support.\nWhatsApp Image 2021-06-12 at 1.39.04 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-05-10 at 8.59.50 AM WhatsApp Image 2021-05-10 at 9.08.57 AM WhatsApp Image 2021-05-11 at 7.28.57 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-06-08 at 11.26.24 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-05-11 at 10.22.18 AM Sheikhupura City\nThis city is at one hour\u0026rsquo;s drive from our place. We have two bible study groups in this city. This is the city where I\u0026rsquo;ve visited the most and taught in different seminars. People are very open to receive the Word of God. Now we have two class, which means more than 60 young men learning in these two groups. We praise God for this as well, and we are thankful to you all for the prayers and support.\n4 3 WhatsApp Image 2021-06-01 at 8.53.33 PM 2 WhatsApp Image 2021-06-01 at 8.51.56 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-06-01 at 8.51.55 PM (1) Faisalabad\nOne of our online student in the city of Faisalabad, (four hours drive from here) has started serving in his town among children. He and his wife really have amazing testimony. The guy here is truly a keen learner, and when he has been learning from the Word in this expository manner through online classes he felt compelled to start sharing that with other people. So this is the start of a small ministry.\nSahiwal and Okara Cities\nAnother guy who completed his seminary studies this year wanted to work with us. We have provided him the study material, Bibles, and some other helping material for the ministry. He is reaching his area for Christ and is working to start some proper Bible study project there. We praise God for this young man and pray for his all abilities and education to be used for our Lord\u0026rsquo;s glory.\nThank you so much for your faithful prayers, love and support, we started in a very small village many years before and now we are reaching six cities, Praise God!!! We love you all and we pray for you and your families. Please keep Calvary Chapel Pakistan in your prayers!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2021/06/16/pakistan-outreaching/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.\u003c/em\u003e ___1 Peter 3:15\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, our families and whole team is fine. We praise God for His grace. It is very hot here, the highest temperature during the day time normally is 46° (114.8 Fahrenheit).God is good that we all are safe and all the church/ministry activities are going well.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Pakistan Outreaching"},{"content":"Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps._____ Psalms 135:6\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We all, our church members, our office staff and our Bible students are fine by the grace of God, we are always thankful to you all for the faithful prayers, love and support. The Covid-19\u0026rsquo;s third wave is very strong here, but at the same time the vaccination of the elderly people has also started. We all need your prayers to be safe during this tough time, our country has shut down most of the major activities seeing our neighboring country India in such bad situation because of this deadly virus.\nLaboring in the Word and Doctrine\nWe are almost stuck most of the time because of the lockdown, we had to postpone our desert mission trip because of this. Our team is regularly working, studying the word of God in order to prepare better resources in Urdu language, and praise God that during the first quarter of this year we were able to complete two big tasks.\n0003 00002 We have prepared two whole books, first, the survey of the whole Bible in Urdu language, and secondly we have also prepared the charts of every book of the Bible and outline of each chapter of every book of the Bible. We praise God for being able to complete this. This is really very helpful source for giving the overview of the whole Bible to the students and all those who want to study the Bible as a whole book. We are praying to get these books printed in Pakistan.\nOur video recording project is also going well and we are working on whole series on theological topics and it is really great. We are putting some of the videos on youtube as\n00005 00004 well, other are being shared with our friends and students. The feedback is really great, we praise God for these efforts to be fruitful. Please continue to pray for our whole team that is serving Lord whole heartedly.\nOnline Classes\nThis has been an amazing experience for me not only to teach many people from the distance, but also to see the power of the Word of God working in the lives of people. I praise God for\n174743821\\_10160873994183098\\_7355568092906815671\\_n 176170490\\_10160873993978098\\_4639048821720667016\\_n 175709523\\_10160873994618098\\_4409204011239914234\\_n this Great privilege to be His servant and the minister of the Word of God. This is so amazing to see how God is using technology to help us reach very far to the people who really have great\nWhatsApp Image 2021-05-05 at 6.19.30 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-05-05 at 6.20.34 PM WhatsApp Image 2021-05-05 at 6.21.38 PM hunger and thirst for the Word of God. Reaching to three groups with the word of God every week through this class is simply awesome! Please continue to pray for us and for these all groups.\nOutreach\nOure team has been reaching very faithful to all the groups that God has given us for ministering to. Our village church, brick makers, people in desert, small groups are all being reached in the same way we have been reaching, teaching and ministering to. People are suffering because of poverty, lockdown, diseases, oppression and much more, we reach them not only to teach them the word of God, but also to encourage them in the Lord and give the taste of the Love of the Lord. We are reaching and teaching these groups like children, and our team is so kind to reach them when they are able to come together even in the late evening, and then we travel back from those place to our homes. Please keep these all groups and specially our team in your special prayers.\nThere is some persecution of the saints going one, I\u0026rsquo;ve shared the prayer requests in our Massey family Prayer Support Group on Facebook. The oppression and disturbance is really heart breaking and tough, but we know that our Lord is totally in control, so we do believe that He will protect His people and always bring good in their lives according to His Holy Will. Please continue to pray for peace, blessings and protection of believers here. God bless you all, we love you and pray for you and your families! in Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2021/05/06/our-god-rules/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever the Lord pleases, He does,\u003c/em\u003e In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps._____\u003c/strong\u003e Psalms 135:6\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We all, our church members, our office staff and our Bible students are fine by the grace of God, we are always thankful to you all for the faithful prayers, love and support. The Covid-19\u0026rsquo;s third wave is very strong here, but at the same time the vaccination of the elderly people has also started. We all need your prayers to be safe during this tough time, our country has shut down most of the major activities seeing our neighboring country India in such bad situation because of this deadly virus.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Our God Rules..."},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.\u0026rdquo;_______John 17:17\nDear Friends and family\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we hope and pray that you are fine. Much has been taking place during the month of February and March here in Pakistan. Covid-19 third wave is very strong in our country, We have witnessed the death of some dear ones. The vaccine is being provided here, but it\u0026rsquo;s very slow and the vaccine is only available for the medical related people at this time. During the month of March, most of the time we have been in lockdown and it will continue for some more time.\nBible Study Groups\nWe praise God that our online bible classes have been going very well and as these young men and women are learning the Word of God verse by verse, they are very happy and have developed great interest in studying the word of God this way. Right now we have three Bible study groups in two cities, and in each group we have about 40 students.\nIMG\\_0772 IMG\\_0723 IMG\\_0385 IMG\\_0348 We are reaching this new generation with the Word of God and it is powerfully transforming their lives. Please keep this teaching ministry in your prayers.\nBibles and Bikes\nWe praise God that we have received 400 regular Bibles and 400 Children\u0026rsquo;s Bibles for the year 2021. We need Bibles every year for our outreach mission. These Bibles go to very far and remote areas where people are not often reached by the churches or Pastors. We evangelize in those areas and provide them with the Word of God.\nBibles 2021 Motor Bikes 01 God has also blessed CC Pakistan with two new bikes for outreach. Our old Bibles were bought in 2016, we were have some problem while traveling on them, God has provided these new bikes this month, we praise God and we are thankful to you all for the prayers and support.\nBrick Maker\u0026rsquo;s Outreach\nFor almost 10 years now we are regularly reaching poor brick makers\u0026rsquo; community to share the word of God with them and encourage them in their Christian belief. We praise God that their new generation is able to go to schools and they are able to read the word of God themselves.\n00001 01 00003 00002 Please continue to keep these people in your prayers and if Lord lays on your heart to help them in some way, it will be always great encouragement for these preciouses souls.\nDesert Mission\nThe mission in the desert continues, we have one Bible class in that area which is truly amazing tool for opening door into that area and also for opening the hearts and minds of\n00004 00001 00002 00005 those people to learn the word of God. This is a vast mission field with many dimensions. We had planned mission trip to the place right after Easter, but now because of lockdown we will need to reschedule our mission plans. Please keep our team and people of this special area also in your prayers.\nOur church, women\u0026rsquo;s ministry and families are going good. my wife Farah graduated from a seminary recently, it was really helpful for her as she has heart to serve in Biblical Counseling. God is really Good, we are thankful to all of you once again and want to request you to please keep us all in your prayers. We love you all and pray for you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\nCalvary Chapel Pakistan\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2021/04/01/thy-word-is-truth/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.\u0026rdquo;_______John 17:17\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we hope and pray that you are fine. Much has been taking place during the month of February and March here in Pakistan. Covid-19 third wave is very strong in our country, We have witnessed the death of some dear ones. The vaccine is being provided here, but it\u0026rsquo;s very slow and the vaccine is only available for the medical related people at this time. During the month of March, most of the time we have been in lockdown and it will continue for some more time.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Thy Word is Truth"},{"content":"Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;\nMercy and truth go before Your face. __Psalm 89:14\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings and love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to all of you for the prayers, love and support. The severity of the weather here is almost over and we have sunny days. During the months of December and January we have so much fog here and life gets slow. As people don\u0026rsquo;t have proper arrangements to keep themselves and their houses warm, the movement, fellowship and most of the activities come to stand still. Therefore in January most of the activities are very slow.\nSpecial Prayer Request\nJust at the start of this year, we learned about an incident of a Christian lady being accused of saying something wrong against the prevalent people\u0026rsquo;s religion and is put into jail. anything like this always shakes the whole community and sends a strong wave of despair and terror in Christian community. We want to request you to please keep that sister in the Lord and her whole family in your prayers. Please keep praying for all the Christians here.\nPlans for year 2021\nTeaching (Online Classes): Our experience with online Bible classes was really amazing last year. We covered many basic things and were able to prepare a good ground to sow the seed of the Word of God through starting book study. We have started the book of Genesis with two groups at two different cities. One More Group is willing to join our Bible study and we will be having those students also with us in the class after few weeks. We are thankful to you always for the payers and support. Through this teaching series more than 100 students are studying. We will be planning some solid and proper teaching projects for future with the help and guidance of our Pastoral Mission Leadership and we are praying to have some young men and women to come forward to be equipped for proper studies and then serve in the future ministry.\nRecording Teaching: We are also trying to produce study material for people to use through our recording project. Right now we are recording one audio devotional series, One one series on Understanding the Bible, and now the book of Genesis teaching as well. We praise God that He provided these resources for us to start working on this project. During the year 2021 we will be preparing the teaching classes on some special subjects, which include Theology, Christian Apologetics and Bible survey. This is going to be a lot of work, and we will need your prayers at every moment while we work to produce such resources and at the same time as we are serving.\nMission in the Desert: The mission work started in a city on the edge of a desert area is really a wonderful practical ministry work that God led us to do. It is a huge mission field. So far we have started one regular Bible class, one Sunday School and Youth Center, Outreach and taking the Bibles to those who don\u0026rsquo;t have the Word of God and reaching some other unreached tribes with the Love of Jesus Christ. It is on our heart to get a local person in our team to be in better position to reached some really unreached people, since that person can speak their language and is basically one of them. Last year we had two wonderful meetings with some groups and this year we are seeking God\u0026rsquo;s guidance to be able to work properly with planning so that we have some good and encouraging results. We are sharing this with you to ask you to please keep this all in your prayers.\nMinistry for the young ones: One great need that we felt during our outreach is that children are neglected on a very higher level. Families and churches are paying the least attention to their spiritual growth. At the other hand, church has not been working hard to produce resources that can be used to teach children and bring them up with the knowledge and understanding of the Word of God. This is one of the main project that Calvary Chapel Pakistan is going to focus on during this year. We had some important meetings with a Christian organization that has really amazing Bible study material with really good trainings and plans for teaching. We will be arranging our first such training in a city near desert in a couple of months. This is how we are going to reach the Main and large group (the children) that is going to become main body of the church in future. Please keep this also in your prayers.\nOur church, Women ministry and ministry among brick makers is going really well. We want to request you to please continue to lifting us all and the ministry here in your prayers. We are always thankful to you all for this. God bless you and your families. In Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/gods-goodness-prevails/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRighteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;\u003cbr\u003e\nMercy and truth go before Your face. __Psalm 89:14\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to all of you for the prayers, love and support. The severity of the weather here is almost over and we have sunny days. During the months of December and January we have so much fog here and life gets slow. As people don\u0026rsquo;t have proper arrangements to keep themselves and their houses warm, the movement, fellowship and most of the activities come to stand still. Therefore in January most of the activities are very slow.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God's Goodness Prevails"},{"content":"And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,\nAnd establish the work of our hands for us;\nYes, establish the work of our hands.\nPsalm 90:17\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings, we hope and pray that you are fine. We all at CC Pakistan are doing well and are thankful that God has protected us during all the tough time of year 2020. This year was not easy for most of the people in this world because of the Covid-19 plague, but Lord has been doing great things in our lives and through the ministry of Calvary Chapel Pakistan. As the year has come to the end, we want to share a snapshot of what Lord has faithfully accomplished in this part of the world. We are thankful to you all for the prayers, support and care.\nTeaching Ministry in 2020\nWithout any knowledge that the world was coming to stand still from March to onward for many months we prayerfully with a new vision started our online classes in two cities and God very amazingly and graciously provided our needs to do that. These classes have been really great tool in the hands of our Lord. We started with 35-40 students in one place, and almost same number in the other city. Now at the end of this year, there are about 75 more students interested to join our class and those who have been studying are growing in the spirit and knowledge of the word of God in really amazing ways. It is really time taking to bring these people out of Word-faith, prosperity teaching and feed them solid food of the word of God. We started with \u0026ldquo;Introduction to the Bible, then we had a series on authenticity of the Bible, our next class after that was Centrality of Jesus Christ in the Bible, and recently we finished one series on Spiritual Discernment\u0026rdquo;. Now our students are ready to start \u0026ldquo;Basic Theology\u0026rdquo; classes with us. It took us almost one whole year to bring them to this place. Please continue to pray for these classes.\nVision for Teaching in 2021\nAs our students are increasing and our online classes were able to develop people\u0026rsquo;s interesting in \u0026ldquo;Studying the Bible, developing researching habit, grow in spiritual discernment and learn about basic Christian doctrine\u0026rdquo; so we feel at this time that we can start a \u0026ldquo;Certificate program\u0026rdquo; in biblical studies here in Pakistan. During this year we have been working on many teachings and articles, translating them into Urdu and putting them on our website. We believe that this project will be used by God to start some proper teaching project here in Pakistan. We want to request you to please keep this in your prayers.\nRecording\nRecording project is very much related to what we shared above. God provided vision and provision for this ministry. We are recording audio and video series of Bible classes in Urdu language. God made this possible for us this year and while we were not able to go out for other activities, working on this project has been very productive usage of the time. The work on this project continues and God willing very soon we will have enough sources in Urdu which will lay a solid foundation of the spiritual life of all those people who are coming into our contact for learning. We want you to please continue to pray for this special project as well. This is great thing that we were able to start in this year and it is already proving to be very helpful.\nReaching out to the unreached\nWe have been reaching to some very unreached groups for last many years. These groups were\nWhatsApp Image 2020-10-30 at 1.15.39 AM WhatsApp Image 2020-10-30 at 1.15.21 AM WhatsApp Image 2020-10-30 at 1.15.19 AM of the poor, slave like brick makers. We still go to them, share the word of God with them and encourage them to remain faithful though they face much discrimination and other pressures. We praise the Lord that their new generation is not able to read the Bible by themselves. The work of 6-7 years has started to bring very positive spiritual change in the new generation. Those who only listened to the words of Bible from us, their children are now able to read the Bible and share the word of God with their families.\nAnd during this year we were also able to go to a very vast but neglected mission field, God has provided needs so far and we are able to reach some very amazing but almost totally\n2154214 001 00121 unreached people. Lord is also leading us to reach some of the Hindu tribes, many of them have come to Christ and they are leading very tough life. This mission is giving us opportunity to reach, teach, bless and encourage those dear brothers and Sisters in the Lord to remain strong and steadfast and grow in the Lord. This work is going to grow and it will also require a lot of energy and much more in the future. We want you to please keep us all and this whole project in your prayers!\nWomen Ministry\nWomen ministry is also one very important ministry that CC Pakistan has. We could not update much on this during this year. Though things were slow because of the Covid-19, but this ministry has been going well and building many young girls and women in their Christian faith. This ministry seeks to start two more Sewing Center projects next year. One will be near our place but the other one is planned for the unreached tribes in south part of our province where we are reaching through our church Mission. Please continue to pray for this all. We are thankful to you for supporting this project of Calvary Chapel Pakistan.\nSpecial Thanks\nWe also want to send very special thanks for all of you for keeping us all in your prayers. Your presences as our interceders always encourages us. When we know that there is a team of spiritual warriors on their knees for us, we feel very comfortable and strong while we serve here. We want to request you to please continue praying for us all, and we will also be appreciating your special support and care. God bless you and your families! We Love You All! Wishing you a very blessed time at Christmas after few weeks!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/12/01/cc-pak-in-year-2020/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnd establish the work of our hands for us;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYes, establish the work of our hands.\u003cbr\u003e\nPsalm 90:17\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, we hope and pray that you are fine. We all at CC Pakistan are doing well and are thankful that God has protected us during all the tough time of year 2020. This year was not easy for most of the people in this world because of the Covid-19 plague, but Lord has been doing great things in our lives and through the ministry of Calvary Chapel Pakistan. As the year has come to the end, we want to share a snapshot of what Lord has faithfully accomplished in this part of the world. We are thankful to you all for the prayers, support and care.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"CC Pak in Year 2020"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;So then faith Comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.\u0026rdquo;\n__Romans 10:17\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings, we praise God for His grace, love and protection, we hope and pray for all of you to be fine. I am very sorry for a late update, my wife Farah is studying in a seminary here and this is her final year. She often needs my help and guidance with all the research work she is doing for her paper, and while she is busy with those things, I many times need to help with many other things also that she used to take of before. The kids are going to school now, and the life is coming back to normal routine.\nReaching the \u0026ldquo;Unreached\u0026rdquo;\nThe life is really tough and the situation for so many people is truly\nWhatsApp Image 2020-09-10 at 1.22.58 AM WhatsApp Image 2020-09-14 at 3.55.48 AM WhatsApp Image 2020-09-10 at 1.24.28 AM cruel. So many times it breaks our hearts to see how miserable lives people are leading at such distant places where they live like slaves, they do not experience the love of our Lord, they don\u0026rsquo;t have access to the word of God, and they don\u0026rsquo;t have hope for their future. Though we cannot do much for their life\u0026rsquo;s situation, but we at least are reaching them with the Word and love of our Lord Jesus Christ.\nAt these places children are forced into working with the parents and so many times some horrible accidents take place, here is one young boy who got his left hand cut while helping his father to prepare food for the cattle of their landlord. He is student of 5th grade. Though the life is very tough, he has little time to give to his studies, but he has great passion to study. Please keep him in your prayers!\nWe praise God that we are able to reach such people in the very far and remote areas (particularly near the desert). We are always thankful to you for the prayers and care. We praise God that our team is very active and they have such a compassion for the people to reach them, encourage them in the Lord, pray with/for them and share the word of God with them. The outreach mission fiend of Calvary Chapel Pakistan is increasing. We need your constant prayers for us all while we serve\nWhatsApp Image 2020-10-11 at 9.50.45 PM WhatsApp Image 2020-10-13 at 12.21.22 AM WhatsApp Image 2020-10-13 at 12.21.24 AM here. The word of God is being taken to some of former Hindu tribes. God is really doing amazing work in their lives as they listen to the word of God and grow spiritually. We are more focused on the new generation. Please keep this all in your prayers!\nOnline Teaching Classes\nThis has been amazing experience for us to start online classes in different towns with the help of some pastor friends in those areas. We started with two classes in two cities with around 40\nScreenshot (63) Screenshot (71) Screenshot (76) students in each city. More students are joining us and there are many more interested to\n1 2 3 join in these classes after hearing from their friends. Bimonthly meetings with these online students have really been very encouraging for us. This is really amazing to see how powerfully the word of God touches and transforms the lives of the believers. Please continue to pray for this ministry as well.\nRecording Ministry\nGod really amazingly made this possible for to produces teaching in Video form with all teaching notes professionally added to the videos. The current project that we are working on is 35 episodes/lectures on the \u0026ldquo;Introduction to the Bible\u0026rdquo;. We have experienced during 12 years of ministry that most of the people don\u0026rsquo;t have the basic understanding of the word of God which makes it difficult for them to study and understand it. God willing this project of recording is going to be very helpful for us to reach thousands of people out their. Our focus is to present the most important information in the simplest way way, and we follow the same idea that Calvary Chapel is mainly focused on \u0026ldquo;Simply Teaching the Word Simply\u0026rdquo;.\nWe are always thankful to you for the love, care, support and prayers that we receive from you. We love you all, and we pray for you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/10/14/unreached-loved-ones/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;So then faith Comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr\u003e\n__Romans 10:17\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings, we praise God for His grace, love and protection, we hope and pray for all of you to be fine. I am very sorry for a late update, my wife Farah is studying in a seminary here and this is her final year. She often needs my help and guidance with all the research work she is doing for her paper, and while she is busy with those things, I many times need to help with many other things also that she used to take of before. The kids are going to school now, and the life is coming back to normal routine.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Unreached Loved Ones"},{"content":"How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? __Romans 10:14\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! We are thankful to you for your prayers love and support. We are safe and fine and are whole heartedly serving the Lord. Our this update is about the following three things:\nBrickmaker\u0026rsquo;s Church Women\u0026rsquo;s Ministry Outreach Evangelism Brickmakers\nAs you know CC Pak is reaching and teaching a group of Christian \u0026ldquo;Brickmakers\u0026rdquo; since 2013. These people are like those who live in the slums in the 3rd word. They are not considered part of the main society and are disadvantaged neglected people. They are deprived of the basic needs of day today life. They live the lives of slavery under\n02 45626317\\_1933556933616862\\_5179823051096719360\\_n 45679803\\_1933556993616856\\_4062622802375606272\\_n great debts that they cannot pay in their whole lives. This group is now permanent part of CC Pak and we have regular church service with them every Friday morning.\nJust like last year we want to have a special Christmas Event with this group where we have great fellowship, praise and worship our Lord and CC Pakistan also blesses these poor people with some Christmas gifts like \u0026ldquo;food bags [food enough for each family for a\nIMG\\_0335 IMG\\_0337 whole month], warm clothes, some medicine and vitamins. We praise God that a friend from World Missionary Press Indiana was in Asia, he got visa to come to Pakistan and he brought vitamins for the Brickmakers as he read about our need for Christmas Party with these brick Makers. There are so many other groups like these people who really live in the darkness as they are not being reached and taught by anyone. Please keep this particular group and their needs in prayers and please join us to bless these people with the love of Christ on this Christmas through our generous gifts mentioned above.\nWoman Ministry\nWomen\u0026rsquo;s Ministry here is also of almost the very same nature as the ministry to Brickner\u0026rsquo;s is, because ministering to women, teaching them and arranging Bible studies for them is also highly neglected here. CC Pak Women\u0026rsquo;s ministry has a Sewing School to equip Christian Women of the villages with knitting and sewing skills, and it also has three Bible Study groups, two run and taught by my wife Farah and one by her assistant Monica. These women are really happy for this all and are thankful for arranging such fellowship and studies.\nThere are so many groups of women that can be reached and got engaged in Bible studies like this. We are thankful to you for the prayers and your support. Please continue to keep\n45643540\\_320245641894642\\_8564096768826933248\\_n IMG\\_0418 lifting this ministry as well as the needs of the ministry. The CC Women\u0026rsquo;s group are praying to be able to go on a short trip [picnic] at some special place for a whole day. This is really rare thing in their lives, as they are living for years and years at the same places and don\u0026rsquo;t have some free and relaxed time. Please pray for us to be able to arrange such picnic for them in near future and pray for the finances that will be needed to arrange one.\nOutreach Evangelism\nThere is vast opportunity to reach so many people in the some far and deep areas who really need to be reached. Few months before we had the opportunity to reach an area on 5 hours drive from our place, where we felt that people were literally 20-30 years behind in their living style.\nSuch groups are really needed to be reached and shared the word with them. God has blessed us with some important tools for evangelism like \u0026ldquo;Free Scriptural Booklets\u0026rdquo; provided by World Missionary Press Inc. and\n38438038\\_10157583783448098\\_7966585587236864000\\_n Packages now God has also blessed us with the gift of Audio Urdu Bibles provided totally free by \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo;. We are prayerfully considering to go on once a month Outreach\n46128284\\_1935973980041824\\_4377742796241502208\\_n 46102189\\_1935974010041821\\_3819699241660448768\\_n 20180804\\_165459 Evangelism where we can teach and share Bible study tools with these people. Support of $200 can cover a whole day trip to the remote areas where CC Pak team reaches after traveling 5-6 hours. Please pray for Lord\u0026rsquo;s guidance and the provision of the needed funds for this particular \u0026ldquo;Mission Day\u0026quot;once a month.\nThank you very much once again for your love, care and support, we love you and pray for you here, God Bless You!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2018/11/17/those-who-live-in-darkness/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? __Romans 10:14\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! We are thankful to you for your prayers love and support. We are safe and fine and are whole heartedly serving the Lord. Our this update is about the following three things:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Those who live in darkness..."},{"content":"\nBe Patient, then, Brothers and sisters, until the Lord\u0026rsquo;s coming. see how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. ___James 5:7\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings and Love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are always thankful to you for the prayers, love and support. The church and ministry is going well and we praise God for that. We as team have been struggling spiritually during these couple of months. And I want you to please pray for us and uplift CC Pakistan whenever you can.\nElder Arif Masih Elder Arif has been very important part of our team for last 10 years. He is very godly man, and God has blessed him with wisdom. Though he cannot read or write, but his heart and are full of God\u0026rsquo;s word and it always amazes me how Lord has blessed him with the knowledge of His word.\nHe is suffering from severe attacks of \u0026ldquo;diabetes\u0026rdquo;. He lost vision in one eye, his eye pressure has increased very much. We are taking him to Lahore city every week for the medical check up and treatment. We\u0026rsquo;ve been praying hard for him and also have been encouraging him. Today\u0026rsquo;s report tells that his vision of the other eye is also in danger. He may go totally blind as the eye pressure is not being controlled. The struggle of this important member of our team has been tough for all of us. We know that our Almighty God is totally in control, but being human so many times it becomes hard to handle such problems. We humbly request you to please pray for Mr. Arif and we will highly appreciate your support for his treatment. He has to travel to the other city (200 kilometers both ways) every week in this condition through local transportation. Please keep him and his family in your prayers!\nCult in the Wilderness\nA friend shared about some Christian groups in the South of our province who are living in the desert like area. They are very poor, they have many problems, one of the major problems is clean drinking water. They also need spiritual guidance and help. We as a team prayed about the group, we got into contact with one person who is working there for many years. We had some online meetings with him and he shared about the area. There is really great need to go and reach the area with the word of God. Through our meetings recently we came to know that the person (the main contact) follows \u0026ldquo;Oneness Pentecostalism\u0026rdquo;. A large number of people are his followers. We are really in prayers for that main person to come to the true understanding of Christian faith and through him we may enter the area. Now we have to work first on the leader. We were very much excited about everything but when we came to know about his belief which he kept secret till now, it made us a little shocked and sad. We are though sending the first supply of World Missionary Press Scriptural Booklets and Audio Bibles provided by Faith Comes by Hearing to this group. We want to share with him the love of Christ and also true teaching with humility and love.We ask you to keep this group and vision to reach them in prayers. We will highly appreciate your financial support to go into that area with some Bible supplies and medicine etc.\nReaching Near and Far\nOur church services are going well, and besides that our Fridays are devoted for outreach evangelism among Brick makers and other isolated groups in our surroundings. We praise God for His faithfulness to keep blessing our ministry for the un-reached groups.\n1 2 3 These brick makers spend their whole lives in slavery, no one reaches them, they are far from the community and church. We praise God that for last five years we have been sharing the word of God with them. And every Friday we have proper service with them. There is another group of such people that we reach and preach to on Friday Evenings.\nYouth and Children Fellowship\nEvery Saturday evening we have Bible study at our house with some young boys and girls. It\u0026rsquo;s really awesome, they study the word of God for three weeks and on the fourth week they have movie day where they watch a Christian movie. We Praise God that this is blessing these children and their families as they learn about their Christian faith. We have started with the Basic Bible Study and from here we will soon move to the simple Bible survey where they can get acquainted with the Word of God and be encouraged to study it themselves in depth in future.\nWe are thankful to all of you for your prayers, love and support. Please continue to pray for Calvary Chapel Pakistan and please support this mission of reaching, teaching and serving fellow Christians here. Thank you very much, God Bless You!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2019/07/11/ploughing-hard-ground/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/07/33363-deserttree315.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/07/33363-deserttree315-300x102.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBe Patient, then, Brothers and sisters, until the Lord\u0026rsquo;s coming. see how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. ___James 5:7\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and Love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are always thankful to you for the prayers, love and support. The church and ministry is going well and we praise God for that. We as team have been struggling spiritually during these couple of months. And I want you to please pray for us and uplift CC Pakistan whenever you can.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Ploughing Hard Ground"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. __ Acts 1:8\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we hope and pray that you all are fine, we are also fine and safe by the grace of God. We are not hearing of Covid-19 spread anywhere in the country right now, but our country is suffering because of flooding in so many areas and cities because of heavy rains. We want to request you to please keep that in your special prayers.\nMission in the Desert\nCC Pakistan started going to a city near desert last year, and at the start of this year we started\n11 12 14 13 one online class there. Recently we had our second mission trip in that area and it was really a great mission trip. It helped us see the tough life situation of the believers in that area. In the far areas life is really tough, and people are not living in one community but separately. Even\n2121 2154 21542 2154214 to reach these people is a great challenge, as one needs to travel long distances in the desert which cannot be done without the help of the local people. We praise God that we were able to go and reach many people at different locations, we were able to pray with/for them, we also\n05 IMG\\_20200724\\_134909 IMG\\_20200724\\_144033 gave them regular Bibles, Children\u0026rsquo;s Bibles and Audio Bibles. We praise God that we could reach there, we want to thank you for all prayers and support and we also want to share that this is a vast mission field, we need to work hard and work more here, so please keep this all in your prayers.\nSpecial Unreached Group\nDuring this mission trip we reached a very special group, they were originally Hindus, but some years before 25 family of that tribe have come to Christ. They live in a very far, isolated village, they have their own pastor, who though needs much teaching training, but right now he is leading them. They are very poor, they have so many different kinds of pressures and their lives are full of challenges, but we were so blessed to see that they still love the Lord and are very happy to believe in Christ as their personal savior. Their whole village has most of the houses made with mud, they simply have one primary school, but after that they cannot send their kids to high school or collage as they don\u0026rsquo;t have sources to travel the long distances, they cannot afford to send their children to those schools far away and it\u0026rsquo;s not even safe for their children to go daily for studying alone. God has put this special group on my heart and heart of our team. We wish to be in touch with them, we wish to be able to share the word of God with them in some proper way and even start some project where their children can learn something and grow doing some thing that can help them in their normal and spiritual life. This group was also very much excited and happy to have us, though it was far, it was not safe to travel there or back\nWhatsApp Image 2020-08-05 at 2.45.27 AM 00121 212121 from there to our hotel in the night, but we prayerfully decided to spend that evening with them and share the word of God with them. It was really a very special and blessed meeting. We were able to provide them some children\u0026rsquo;s Bibles and also audio Bibles to use for their spiritual growth in the meetings. They were very happy and very blessed by this\n012 WhatsApp Image 2020-08-05 at 2.45.13 AM WhatsApp Image 2020-08-05 at 2.45.19 AM fellowship. Their worship that evening was so full of joy. We are praying to reach this group back, We wish to start a sewing center there for a lady who knows sewing and knitting. We are also in prayer to see how Lord wants us to reach and bless this group. Please keep this special group in your prayers!\nBible Class in Desert Area\nOur online class started in the city near desert at the start of this year, because of lockdown, during all these months I was not able to go and see our students personally. We have over 40 online students in this class, most of them were followers of Word-Faith movement and were leading their lives according to the teaching of the health, wealth and prosperity Gospel. we praise God that this class has started changing their lives and they are so happy to be able to learn this way.\nIMG\\_8212 IMG\\_8173 IMG\\_8170 IMG\\_8232 It was really great for our team to meet those students in person, teach them and then have dinner and fellowship with them. This class continues online and we praise God that people travel from different places to attend this. Please keep our this online teaching project as well in your prayers.\nVideo Recording of Teaching\nGod provided support for us to start Video recording of Biblical teaching in Urdu language, we started this project in the month of august. We praise God that this is finally possible. All the classes that we have been teaching are going to be recorded and we are going to record the teaching series which will be helpful for us right now in the ministry and in the future for our Bible college vision. We are thankful to you all for your prayers and support. Lord is really doing amazing things in and through CC Pakistan. During all this time of lockdown when the world came to stand still, God helped us to do much more than our normal routine and He also provided help and ways to accomplish our tasks.\nWe are always thankful to you all, we love you and pray for you! God bless you and your families!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/09/01/mission-reaching-preaching/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. __ Acts 1:8\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we hope and pray that you all are fine, we are also fine and safe by the grace of God. We are not hearing of Covid-19 spread anywhere in the country right now, but our country is suffering because of flooding in so many areas and cities because of heavy rains. We want to request you to please keep that in your special prayers.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Mission, Reaching \u0026amp; Preaching"},{"content":"“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.\u0026quot;\nDeuteronomy 6:6-7\nDear Friends and Family\nGreetings in our Lord\u0026rsquo;s name from CC Pakistan. We praise God that He has kept us during all this tough time when virus had spread everywhere and here in our country many things were not being taken seriously and we have very organized and powerful health care system as well. We are thankful to you for the prayers and support during all this time. The spread of the virus has almost stopped and life is coming to normal routine. In this update we are going to share mainly how Lord is working in the lives of young generation through through His Word that CC Pakistan is taking to them and teaching them diligently.\nSeed of the Word in Desert\nLast year we went to a city near desert Cholistan, about 10 hours drive from our place. During our vision tour last year, God brought us into contact with a wonderful guy who started working with us as a contact in the desert area. Through him we started online Bible class there which is going well and, that brother in Christ has started Calvary Chapel Sunday School and Youth Fellowship where he has started to teach children and young men and women weekly.\nThis is an amazing step that has enabled us to reach and teach many children and young boys and girls who are willing to study the Word with brother Aftab. This is also opening doors for us to reach more people and specially children and young men\n02 03 and women in the neighboring areas. The people in the area are leading a tough life because of their area\u0026rsquo;s location, condition, and poverty. So many children are not going to schools and people are facing so many health issues as well because they don\u0026rsquo;t get proper medication and health awareness. Please keep our mission in the desert area in your prayers.\nNeighboring city Mission\nWe started our online class in a neighboring city as well where we have more than 40\n19 17 18 online students in our class. God has brought into contact with us a wonderful God fearing man in that city as well. He has caught the vision of Calvary Chapel to reach people with the simple but thorough study of the Word of God. He is in touch with us for all guidance and help for teaching. And his Bible study with some young people is going really well. This brother is very mission minded and is reaching many people with the Audio Bible as well to help them know the Word and grow spiritually. God is good!!! we can see many people being connected united and equipped with the Biblical teaching in near future through our teaching project which also includes Bible Study recording. Please keep this brother and his small group of young men and women also in your prayers. He is really doing tremendous job, and his vision to start Calvary Chapel in his area in future is really awesome!\nPartners in the Mission Field\nAs God provided us Children\u0026rsquo;s and adult\u0026rsquo;s Bibles for the mission this year, he also has blessed us with Audio Bibles through Faith Comes by Hearing organization. Because of this some amazing people are coming into contact with us who truly are humble servants and they are serving Lord in the very remote areas among very disadvantaged people.\nSo the Word of God is going to many those as well who are not in our reach. We are promoting the organized study of the Word on regular basis and this is what most of the people around like about Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We always encourage people to focus on \u0026ldquo;Simply the Word Simply\u0026rdquo;. God is using his Word in the really amazing ways and we really feel His hand working through and in us as well as all the people we are reaching\n08 07 09 to with the Word. The word of God is effective and powerful and God is definitely changing the lives of so many here through it for eternity. We want you to please continue to pray for us.\n03 02 01 There are many other parts where we are reaching with the Word of God, not only distributing the Bibles, but making sure to establish and start a proper system to help children and young boys and girl study the word of God in regularly. The study of the word at this level will go a long way in their lives and we firmly believe that God is going to use these all efforts for His name\u0026rsquo;s glory. There are few other groups also that are being reached but I don\u0026rsquo;t want to make this update very long and boring. Lord blessed us with availability of His word for children and adults this year, so it is helping us to \u0026ldquo;Connect, Unite and Equip our next generation. The next step will be \u0026ldquo;Send\u0026rdquo; them to the mission field in future. Please keep these precious souls in your prayers. Please continue to pray for CC Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s team and also please keep our need for the Bibles for year 2021 and our mission project in desert in your prayers. We are always thankful to you, we love you and pray for you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/07/11/connecting-uniting-and-equipping/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nDeuteronomy 6:6-7\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family\u003cbr\u003e\nGreetings in our Lord\u0026rsquo;s name from CC Pakistan. We praise God that He has kept us during all this tough time when virus had spread everywhere and here in our country many things were not being taken seriously and we have very organized and powerful health care system as well. We are thankful to you for the prayers and support during all this time. The spread of the virus has almost stopped and life is coming to normal routine. In this update we are going to share mainly how Lord is working in the lives of young generation through through His Word that CC Pakistan is taking to them and teaching them diligently.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Connecting, Uniting and Equipping"},{"content":"The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalm 18:2 Dear Friends and Family,\nGreetings and love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to you for your faithful prayers. By the grace of God we all are safe, and doing good in this very troubled time which is getting worse here in our country.\nThe doctors in our country had beeing telling people that everyone should take this virus seriously and following the instructions of the Govt. and doctors, but people did not care and thought that either this pandemic was over or it was not brining any harm to people in Pakistan. Now at once the situation has changed. Our hospitals are full of patients, death toll is rising everyday. It seems that things are getting out of control, the terror of death is prevailing around. With poor medical structure it is very hard to handle the situation at place like this. We are hearing about many poor people around who are suffering from other diseases but they are not able to go to the doctors. They cannot receive medical treatment. The physical condition of so many is getting worse daily but nothing can be done except from self help and prayer. Some of our very close friends and family members are going trought such trouble, we want to request you all to please pray for our country and specially those people who are already suffering from different other diseases and are not able to receive medical treatment.\nTri-city Outreach Evangelism We praise God that our online Bible classes allowed us to reach many wonderful people in different cities. The leaders of the groups are really happy for what they have been learning, and they feel so blessed to be part of our classes. God has worked in their hearts in such wonderful way that they are reaching other people with the Word of God in the most possible ways. One group is useing som of our previously recorded Teaching video and share the word of God with their groups. This is great exprience for them and we are praying to be able to produce more video teachings in near future so that more people get Bible based teaching presented in the simplest way to grow in the knowledge of God\u0026rsquo;s word.\nAnother friend who is so passionate about studying the word of God is reaching people with Audio Bibles that God has provided us through Faith Comes by Hearing organization. These friends are representing Calvary Chapel Pakistan and are serving whole heartedly by going and taking the word of God to the other people.\nThe seed of the Word that we sowed in the desert area in october 2019 is growing now. Our brother in Christ who represents CC Pakistan in that area has just started a \u0026ldquo;Youth Fellowship and Sunday School\u0026rdquo; project. We are so glad that the new generation of that area which has been neglected most of the time is now being reached, one group at one time and taught the word of God. We want to train more people in those areas so that they be able to work there and reach and teach their own people. God is so good. He provide us with Bibles for children and also regular Bibles for adults at the start of this year.\nWhatsApp Image 2020-06-08 at 4.12.37 PM 1 WhatsApp Image 2020-06-08 at 4.12.37 PM (1) Our office is sending these Bibles to our friends working in three different cites with the commitment that they will not merely distribute those, but make sure that they arrange the study of those Bibles.\nOur church is also doing great, we have resumed the Sunday and Friday services and we are studying the word of God together on regular basis. We praise God that when there is lockdown and people are not able to do much, they are being provided help and resources to study the word of God and grow sprituatlly. We are thankful to you all for the prayers and care. We pray for you and request you to always keep us in your pray! God Bless You!\nIn Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/06/15/god-is-our-refuge-in-troubled-time/","summary":"\u003ch3 id=\"thelord-is-my-rock-and-my-fortress-and-my-deliverer-my-god-my-strength-in-whom-i-will-trust-my-shield-and-the-horn-of-my-salvation-my-stronghold-psalm-182\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalm 18:2\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to you for your faithful prayers. By the grace of God we all are safe, and doing good in this very troubled time which is getting worse here in our country.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God is our Refuge in Troubled Time"},{"content":"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings and love from Pakistan, we hope that all of you are fine, we thank God for the protection of our families, church members and Bible study group members during this time. God is good, we rejoice in His goodness and love. During this situation of lock-down, we have not been able to arrange church services and online Bible classes, though we’ve been visiting church member’s families with all necessary safety measures. And we are also using this time to train the new team members in the desert area to know more about ministry and grow in biblical studies.\nCovid-19 Relief\nOur country is not only suffering because of Covid-19, but much poverty as well, as the country is locked down, poor people (daily wagers) have been suffering as they are not\nable to provide for their families in this situation. Our church started receiving many requests from our town and from the desert area where we started our ministry project last year. Thank God for the provision of financial support, we are thankful to\nyou for coming on our side and helping us through Saving Grace World Missions for relief in this tough situation. Our team members are reaching people with food bags, and we are also encouraging them in this tough situation through the Word of God. The support project continues as Lord leads and helps our team to reach people at different places.\nAccording to today’s information, the spread of the virus has increased and it is said to be spreading in the areas very near to us. Please continue to pray for us as we are praying for you all there.\nPandemic, Quarantine and Future\nThis is definitely unique time in our lives in many different ways.It is horrifying for a large number of people, for many it is the time to be strengthened in their faith and for so many it is very misleading time as well. Since the spread of this virus, many so-called prophets and false teachers have been coming forward to tell people what is going to happen next. They have been suggesting the end of this virus on specific days, and many of them are suggesting the end of the world on a particular day according to their prophecies. People are getting caught up in the superstitions. This situation has urged us more to reach people with Bible based true teachings more than ever and warn them of the false, confusing and misleading teachings while leading them to the study of the Word of God. In our family we started studying Basic Christian Theology so that our children’s belief and understanding of the Christian faith be Bible based. we are also praying to start recording of video and audio teaching sessions, classes and sermons to reach more and more people. Please keep this in your prayers, we will be in need to hire a technical guy to record and edit teaching classes and sermons. We are in prayers for the provision of regular support for this, and we will be encouraged by your co-laboring with us in this project.\nWe are really thankful to you for your prayers, care and support. We pray for you and your family’s protection and blessings! God Bless You! In Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/05/05/the-lord-is-our-shepherd/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGod is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.\u003c/em\u003e Psalm 46:1\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and love from Pakistan, we hope that all of you are fine, we thank God for the protection of our families, church members and Bible study group members during this time. God is good, we rejoice in His goodness and love.\nDuring this situation of lock-down, we have not been able to arrange church services and online Bible classes, though we’ve been visiting church member’s families with all necessary safety measures. And we are also using this time to train the new team members in the desert area to know more about ministry and grow in biblical studies.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The Lord is Our Shepherd"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;You will know the TRUTH, and the Truth will set you free.\u0026rdquo;__John 8:32\nDear Friends and family, Greetings from CC Pakistan, we praise God for His faithfulness and care and also we are thankful to you for your faithful prayers and support. We are doing really good, our church and teaching ministry is growing and our whole team is fine by God\u0026rsquo;s grace.\nOnline Teaching Ministry\nI shared with you about our \u0026ldquo;Online Teaching Ministry\u0026rdquo; that we started this year in our last update. Now I want to share with you the great impact of the class on the lives of our students. This is our new ministry and we were in prayer for this since October 2019. The both groups (more than 40 students in each) come from background highly affected by \u0026ldquo;televangelists\u0026rdquo;. Therefore students in both classes had so many misconceptions and were confused about their faith. They were curious about the online class as well as it is their first experience to learn this way. Out experiment with teaching and the Bible study class itself has been really amazing and very successful. The first 14 classes are titled \u0026ldquo;Introduction to the Bible\u0026rdquo; and our slogan for this class is \u0026ldquo;Back to the Bible.\u0026rdquo; This class has been really wonderful, students are very excited as they are coming to know about the Holy Word of God and thus are led to study it. Last week as I visited one group in their city, they had so many stories to tell me and they shared how this online Bible class arranged by CC Pakistan is helping them grow in their faith removing their misconceptions about Bible and helping them know and read it more daily. Our Second Group of Bible students is from a city at the distance of 9 hours drive. That group is near a vast desert called Cholistan. That group was fully dominated by the so-called healers and most of the people still follows such false teachers who are making merchandise of the word of God. We praise God that the group in that city is also growing much in discernment and spiritual awareness in the light of the Bible. It is really great privilege for us to lead these young people back to the Bible. We praise God for His grace and are thankful to you for your prayers.\nGod provided \u0026ldquo;Bibles\nCC Pak has been reaching very remote areas and disadvantaged and un-reached Christians at so many places from the very start of our mission work in Pakistan. We need Urdu Bibles every year for our Outreach Mission Trips to hand the Word of God to those who don\u0026rsquo;t have Bible. We want to share with you with joyful hearts that God very graciously has blessed CC Pakistan with 800 Urdu Bibles (400 for adults, and 400 Children Bibles) this year. A large number of these Bibles are going to very poor and un-reached families and children. Thank you for praying for our needs and coming forward to co-labor with us through your support. God is also blessing us with Audio Bibles with the help of Faith Comes by Hearing ministry, and that is really great blessing for those who are unable to read or write, now they can listen the Word of God whenever they want.\nFirst Outreach Mission of 2020\nLast year we went on 5 days outreach mission trip to desert area and it was really great as Lord led us to some areas where people are really living in great darkness spiritually. This\nWhatsApp Image 2020-02-18 at 9.17.51 AM WhatsApp Image 2020-02-26 at 10.17.19 AM WhatsApp Image 2020-03-03 at 9.55.54 PM mission trip became to reason of starting the online Bible classes with a group which is really a great blessing for those people as well as for us. This also gave us opportunity to disciple a group of young people in the area to reach their people by sharing the Word of God with them and encouraging them in their Christian faith. We are very happy to share that these young men are reaching people in their area and they are sharing the word of God with them and are teaching them what they learn in the online Bible classes. CC Pak\u0026rsquo;s team is going on our \u0026ldquo;First Outreach Mission Trip 2020\u0026rdquo; in couple of weeks. We will be reaching some new areas with the Bibles, we will reach people, pray for and with them and encourage them in their faith in the Lord. We praise God that He has provided us with the needs. We will have some special discipleship meetings with our contact and his team in that area. Please keep this mission trip and our team in your prayers.\nThank you very much once again for your prayers, love and support, we always pray for you and your families. In Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/03/14/set-free-by-gods-word/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;You will know the TRUTH, and the Truth will set you free.\u0026rdquo;__John 8:32\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from CC Pakistan, we praise God for His faithfulness and care and also we are thankful to you for your faithful prayers and support. We are doing really good, our church and teaching ministry is growing and our whole team is fine by God\u0026rsquo;s grace.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnline Teaching Ministry\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI shared with you about our \u0026ldquo;Online Teaching Ministry\u0026rdquo; that we started this year in our \u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/03/Screenshot-201.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/03/Screenshot-201-300x169.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e last update. Now I want to share with you the great impact of the class on the lives of our students. This is our new ministry and we were in prayer for this since October 2019. The both groups (more than 40 students  in each) come from background highly affected by \u0026ldquo;televangelists\u0026rdquo;. Therefore students in both classes had so many misconceptions and were confused about their faith. They were curious about the online class as well as it is their first experience to learn this way. Out experiment with teaching \u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/03/IMG_7375.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/03/IMG_7375-300x200.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e and the Bible study class itself has been really amazing and very successful. The first 14 classes are titled \u0026ldquo;Introduction to the Bible\u0026rdquo; and our slogan for this class is \u0026ldquo;Back to the Bible.\u0026rdquo; This class has been really wonderful, students are very excited as they are coming to know about the Holy Word of God and thus are led to study it. Last week as I visited one group in their city, they had so many stories to tell me and they shared how this online Bible class arranged by CC \u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/03/012.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/03/012-300x169.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Pakistan is helping them grow in their faith removing their misconceptions about Bible and helping them know and read it more daily.\nOur Second Group of  Bible students is from a city at the distance of 9 hours drive. That group is near a vast desert called Cholistan. That group was fully dominated by the so-called healers and most of the people still follows such false teachers who are making merchandise of the word of God. We praise God that the group in that city is also growing much in discernment and spiritual awareness in the light of the Bible. It is really great privilege for us to lead these young people back to the Bible. We praise God for His grace and are thankful to you for your prayers.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Set Free by God's Word"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Sanctify them by Your truth.Your word is truth\u0026rdquo; John 17:17\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we hope and pray for all of you to be fine. We praise God for the wonderful work of the church to continue here by His grace.\nSickness\nAs the weather is changing, our whole family went through a phase of sickness because of cold and high fever. This is also one of the reasons that we are late in posting our update. We are thankful to you for the faithful prayers. Almost all of us have recovered now and the coldest wave of the weather is almost over.\nBibles for Un-reached\nWe are thankful to you dear friends for helping us get Bibles for unreached people for many years now. We remember the times when some of you donated blood to raise support for the Bibles, some of you ran long distance races and children did car wash to raise support for Bibles. We are always humbled to see your love, and while you co-labor with us that way, on this end we have been faithfully reaching remote areas, deep villages, jungles and deserts to take your gift to most deserving people.\n06 22 45 I have shared with you that American organization \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo; is providing CC Pakistan with audio Bibles this year. Their Director for Asia visited Pakistan last month and we conducted a training for the pastors.\n04 01 02 Now not only our mission team but many pastors around us are forming small groups of people at different places and they are studying the Word of God with uneducated, disadvantaged and poor people in the remote areas. These groups listen from the Word of God and then they have time for discussion and prayer. Please continue to pray for this ministry project and provision of Bibles needed in future.\nReaching other cities Online\nIn year 2020 we started an awesome project of teaching in two other cities through\n04 01 11 \u0026ldquo;Online class\u0026rdquo;. This is really a great start of the year and we believe that this is the foundation of a vision for future, of Calvary Chapel \u0026ldquo;Bible school and College\u0026rdquo; in Pakistan. For first three months we have a class \u0026ldquo;Introduction to Bible\u0026rdquo; and then we will move to some\n2 1 09 other classes. First Week we had 21 and 27 students at in our class in two different cities and this week at both places we had more than 40 students. I also want to share with you that these people we are reaching through our \u0026ldquo;online class\u0026rdquo; have highly been under\n1212 03 3212 the influence of \u0026ldquo;Televangelists, prosperity teachers\u0026rdquo;. The Teaching of the true word of God is amazingly changing their lives. Since we started these classes, we are receiving more requests from different people. Please keep this teaching project in your prayers, and please pray that we may start such projects in more cities where so many people are still unreached and they are not receiving true and simple teachings of the Word.\nWebsite\nOur devoted team is working very hard to produce Biblical teaching material in Urdu language for our website: calvarypakistan.com, the outcome is really great and our website is also becoming a great source for so many people for Bible studies, Bible commentary in Urdu and so much other information. Please keep our whole team, our ministry and all needs in your prayers! We are always thankful to you for your love, care and support. We love you and pray for you and your family!\nIn Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/02/13/back-to-the-bible/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Sanctify them by Your truth.Your word is truth\u0026rdquo;           John 17:17\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we hope and pray for all of you to be fine. We praise God for the wonderful work of the church to continue here by His grace.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSickness\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the weather is changing, our whole family went through a phase of sickness because of cold and high fever. This is also one of the reasons that we are late in posting our update. We are thankful to you for the faithful prayers. Almost all of us have recovered now and the coldest wave of the weather is almost over.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Back to the Bible"},{"content":"Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. _____Isaiah 40:30-31\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings and Happy New Year! We hope and pray for you to be fine, safe and rejoicing in the Lord. We praise God for His faithfulness during year 2019. God did many wonderful things in our lives and ministry and through it. In our meeting at the end of last year, we recalled some of the important things that Lord made possible for us, and those are like this:\nMy book on Christian Apologetics was printed, All the inquiries for the registration of our organization were completed, Our church\u0026rsquo;s youth Bible study was started, Our Website www.calvarypakistan.com was made and we have put much Urdu Material on that including the translation of Pastor David Guzik\u0026rsquo;s Commentary of John and Jude. We received adults and children Bibles and Audio Bibles for our ministry, We were able to go to desert area for 5 days mission, the ministry there continues\u0026hellip; My son Joshua went with me to the CC Pastoral conference in Nepal, and the list goes on and on. God is truly faithful and he keeps and protects us as we serve Him here. We are thankful to you for your love, care, prayers and support.\nRefreshing Time with the Team\nSpending some time with our Calvary Chapel Team during the conferences has always been the most refreshing time for me. We praise God that in November 2019 I was able to go to Nepal with my son and we were able to spend some quality time with teams of two Calvary Chapels while they were serving diligently. This year\u0026rsquo;s experience was really unique as it helped me and my son to come out of our comfort zones. My son will never every forget his time spent in the Nepali mission field with those amazing people.\nThe most joyful thing for me was that we also were able to spend some very special time\n03 02 01 with our Saving Grace Team. I met some new people, had wonderful fellowship and learned many things from their lives and ministries. We praise God and give Him all glory for the ministries of our all missionary friends in different countries of the world.\nChristmas and New Year time\nThe year 2019 ended with many blessings as we look behind. December was very busy time as usual and it was full of blessings and joy for us and our church members.\n2 11 3 One important thing that we always want to do in December is to reach the brick makers for Christmas lunch and fellowship with them. They are ureached people who are considered outcast of the society. During this time we help them with the food bags and warm clothes for winter. We praise God that this year\u0026rsquo;s fellowship was really great.\nChristmas and New Year time with our youth in the village\n6 4 8 church was also really amazing. These young men and women were also unreached and now they are very much thankful to be united under the umbrella of Calvary Chapel. The time of Christmas was full of joy, blessings and fun for these groups as well.\nWomen Ministry\nThis is truly amazing and very much needed ministry. The women in our society are also kind of unreached group\n10 2 4 though they are totally reachable. My wife Farah is leading three Bible Study Groups in three different locations with the help of a lady named Monica. These wonderful ladies in the group also had very blessed fellowship time full of blessing and joy during Christmas time.\nNew Years brings New Opportunity\nThe year 2020 has started with really amazing opportunities for us to reach more areas with the word of God through proper online classes and mission trips. We\n1 02 2 visited a city named Bahawalpur in October 2019 and went for 5 days desert mission trip. The trip was really very much fruitful and our that mission trip created the opportunity for us to start organized Bible study classes in two cities. We praise God that He has provided the needs for these classes and we need your prayers to start them soon as possible and continue them for those students\u0026rsquo; growth in the Word and knowledge of our Lord and for our Lord\u0026rsquo;s glory.\nWe are thankful to you for the prayers, care, love and support. We love you and pray for you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2020/01/06/happy-new-year/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEven the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. _____Isaiah 40:30-31\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and Happy New Year! We hope and pray for you to be fine, safe and rejoicing in the Lord. We praise God for His faithfulness during year 2019. God did many wonderful things in our lives and ministry and through it.\nIn our meeting at the end of last year, we recalled some of the important things that Lord made possible for us, and those are like this:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Happy New Year"},{"content":"\u0026quot;\u0026hellip;you shall bewitnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea andSamaria, and to the end of the earth.\u0026quot; Acts 1:8b\nDear Friends and Family, Greetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! we all are fine by the grace of God and we are thankful to you for your prayers, love and generous support. We praise God for answering our prayers and helping us to go on desert mission last month. Lord laid this on our hearts\nIMG\\_5323 IMG\\_5393 IMG\\_5175 in the month of March when a friend of us shared the situation about believers living in the deserted area. We started praying for the area and for the help for us to reach there, and finally God not only enabled us to go to that area for the mission but also provided many important supplies of Bibles such as regular (NT \u0026amp; OT), colorful children\u0026rsquo;s Bible and Audio Bibles with solar panels to recharge in the desert.\nGreat Opportunity of Prayer\nAfter we visited this area our hearts and minds were so moved that the first thing that we felt led to do was \u0026ldquo;Pray\u0026rdquo; passionately with and for them. Their miserable lives, spiritual condition and the need to be reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ made us start counting our blessings of everyday that we enjoy.\nThe beautiful thing is that though they are least reached, they don\u0026rsquo;t have organized churches and available teachers of the Word of God. They even don\u0026rsquo;t have the Bibles at their homes yet they profess their faith in Jesus Christ. We came to know about the people who have lost every possession because of the debts they take from landlords and can never pay that back their whole lives. We heard from the local people that there are many who are chained during the night so that they may not run away because they have to pay heavy debts. In spite of all those hardships, they do not deny Jesus Christ. There is great opportunity for us and you all to pray for people living in these dark and un-reached areas. We will appreciate your prayers for our team and the needs for mission in the desert.\nBibles Delivered\nWhen we come to know about this area, the main need was mentioned to us was \u0026ldquo;the Bibles\u0026rdquo;. We\u0026rsquo;ve been praying for almost 6 months, and finally God provided all that we needed in really amazing way. Some really loving and generous friends came up through Saving Grace World Missions with the support for Urdu Bibles. Calvary Cyprus helped us with Colorful Children Bibles, Faith Comes by Hearing (FCBY) provided Audio Bibles and World Missionary Press Inc. provided many Bible study books and other scriptural Booklets.\nIMG\\_4669 IMG\\_4939 IMG\\_4656 People very very much thankful for the blessing of the Word of God that they were\nIMG\\_5271 IMG\\_5060 IMG\\_4825 receiving and children were very excited as colorful Children\u0026rsquo;s Bible was really something amazing for them. They were excited to receive and read those.\nThe need of mission is so great in that area that we really felt pushed to spend our late evenings in the far deep villages reaching and meeting people. Mission in the desert area is really much needed and very worthy cause. We want to request you to co-labor in this with\n03 02 01 us through your prayers, support to get more Bibles and sponsor mission trips in that area.\nMeeting in the Town\nThe day before we came back, our host arranged a meeting in the city where more than 90 people came, most of them were young men and women. Majority of these people was\n06 04 05 under the influence of televangelists. Sharing the plain word of God in simple but reasonable manner had really powerful impact on them. We had great conversation with those people and they are willing to start an online class with us in that area. We praise God for opening this door for us to reach the hearts and minds of people in that area with the word of God. We had requests to reach some more areas for which we had to travel many hundred kilometers more. We could not go there but hope and pray to reach there as well to encourage our brothers and sisters in the Lord and help them with the Urdu Bibles, sound Christian teaching and our prayers. We are thankful to you for the prayers and want to request you to please continue praying and supporting us. God Bless You!\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2019/11/07/good-news-for-desert-dwellers/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/11/IMG_5124-e1572958599303.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/11/IMG_5124-e1572958599303-300x133.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026quot;\u0026hellip;you shall bewitnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea andSamaria, and to the\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eend of the earth.\u0026quot; Acts 1:8b\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family, \u003cbr\u003e\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! we all are fine by the grace of God and we are thankful to you for your prayers, love and generous support.  We praise God for answering our prayers and helping us to go on desert mission last month. Lord laid this on our hearts\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Good News for Desert Dwellers"},{"content":"\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Pakistan, We are always thankful to you for your prayers and generous support. We all are fine here, weather is very severely humid and hot at this time of the year, we are hoping for this to start changing in a month. Kids are getting ready to go to school again as Summer Vacation is ending this week. The congregation of Calvary Chapel is thriving in the spirit and sends love to you all who pray for us. Here we want to give you an update of what God is doing in and through Calvary Chapel Pakistan.\nUrdu Bible\u0026rsquo;s Provision\nWe are always in need of Urdu Bibles, for last ten years we have been trying to get Urdu Bibles at different times and take them to very unreached areas to those people who don\u0026rsquo;t even have the Word of God to read for spiritual guidance. This project was supported through wonderful ways in the past. Sometimes Sunday School children raised funds for this, people ran races to raise funds for Urdu Bibles, and even some people donated blood to send Bibles to us. We are thankful to all of those wonderful brothers and sisters in the Lord.\nAt the beginning of this project two godly ladies named Anna Simic and Anna Hogan worked so hard and they encouraging people to collect coins to help us get Urdu Bibles. With their all much efforts, we were hardly able to buy 10 Urdu Bibles. We praise God that this month we were able to purchase 180 Urdu Bibles from Pakistan Bible Society. We are thankful to Pastor Bond and Heather who shared our need for Bibles with their friends and played a role of connecting people to CC Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s this need. We rejoice in the Lord for this wonderful provision.\nAudio Sermon Recording\nWe are working to prepare tones of Christian Study material in Urdu for Pakistani Christians and all Urdu speaking people around the world. It includes my book on Apologetics, many articles being prepared and posted on our website, teaching series of summer camp for children for year 2020, a whole series of videos teaching on Christian Apologetics and Audio Recording Sermons in Urdu Language. In our church we don\u0026rsquo;t have controlled environment to be able to record the sermons. So we have started recording a series of Sermons in Urdu language. It is a lot of technical work to edit the recordings, but we praise God for the equipment that He has provided and the technical support also through one of our team member.\nCalvary Foundation Youth Fellowship This is the name of our youth group. We are working hard on this aspect of the ministry also to reach as many young people as possible through our youth ministry by Saturday Evening Bible Study at our house and reaching them at their places. We have 55 plus young men and women in our both churches. This group consists of teenagers and those in their early twenties. This is really really much needed and powerful aspect of the ministry. We want to bring our both groups\n01 2 02 together in October for a \u0026ldquo;One Day Youth Seminar\u0026rdquo; to teach them on the Authenticity of the Bible. We want you to please keep the need to organize this seminar in your prayers. We are in prayer to invite other young people also besides our group of 55 plus. Our needs for this seminars will be arranging transportation for our youth group that is in the village, and providing them lunch.\nWo m en\u0026rsquo;s Ministry Women\u0026rsquo;s ministry is going smooth and is expanding. There are several Bible study groups now in different villages where CC Pakistan has helped women of the villages to manage time and get together for Bible studies on daily basis for fellowship and prayer and once a week for main Bible study. We are thankful to all of you who are supporting this wonderful ministry of CC Pakistan. This is a great blessing that these ladies are growing in the knowledge, love and fear of God and thus they are leading their families in Christian faith.\nFarah has received some wonderful gifts of books to study well in order to prepare for teaching, we have been also receiving some smooth support from some friends and family for this ministry. Thank you so much for. Please keep praying for women ministry.\n03 02 04 We are considering the need to prepare special teachings and a \u0026ldquo;retreat\u0026rdquo; for the women in the spring of 2020. Please pray for guidance, and provision of the needs.\nWe want to thank you once again and request you to please keep Calvary Chapel Pakistan and its needs in your prayers. Please \u0026ldquo;Click Here\u0026rdquo; to go to our Prayer Request Page. Here is our Facebook Prayer Support Group. We are thankful to you for generous support. God Bless You!\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2019/08/16/god-is-faithful-3/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/08/Cross-Website-Banner.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/08/Cross-Website-Banner-300x102.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Pakistan, We are always thankful to you for your prayers and generous support. We all are fine here, weather is very severely humid and hot at this time of the year, we are hoping for this to start changing in a month. Kids are getting ready to go to school again as Summer Vacation is ending this week. The congregation of Calvary Chapel is thriving in the spirit and sends love to you all who pray for us. Here we want to give you an update of what God is doing in and through Calvary Chapel Pakistan.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Rejoicing in His Goodness"},{"content":" “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”___ Galatians 6:9\nDear Friends and Family, Greetings from Pakistan! We hope and pray for all of you to be fine and happy. The summer has started here, and it\u0026rsquo;s difficult time for most of the people around us, specially the brick makers and other people who live under the poverty line, a life without basic needs. The power outage makes the life miserable in this time of the year, many diseases breakout, but we praise God that we and all people in our church are fine. Lord is opening doors for us to reach more people in different areas and in this update we want to share with you about that:\nCall from Desert\nFor few months, Lord has been putting on our mind and heart the south part of our province. That is very poor area and the large majority lives without basic needs, mainly clean water to drink. As we started praying about that part of the province, we have been contacted by three different men so far who are serving in that are. They are mainly working among Christians and some Hindu tribes. They reached us because of the Free Literature of World Missionary Press that Calvary Chapel distributes in the country. They need Urdu Bibles, they need to be reached and taught. Because of the poverty the children are not sent to schools, there are many health issues and and many other along with one major problem of lack of drinking water.\nRight now I don\u0026rsquo;t know how we can start reaching and ministering to these people. We have Audio Bibles provided by \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo; and we are sending some to these people in that area. We have put prayer request for 100 Urdu Bibles on our facebook Prayer Group page. Please pray for these people, help us know if there are possibilities to help these people in other ways than just providing them Bibles. We are praying to support some of the men working in that area to work effectively and properly. Please keep the need and these people in your prayers. Please share the need with friends and family who can co-labor with us in any possible way in this geographically and spiritually deserted area.\nCalvary Foundation Youth Fellowship This is our group of young people, we have weekly meeting and \u0026ldquo;Discipleship Class\u0026rdquo; with them. Every Saturday we meet at my home and we are training these young ones to grow in the understanding of the Word of God. There is a \u0026ldquo;Born Blind\u0026rdquo; guy named Saqib, he comes and teaches children music. He even leads worship at our both Sunday meetings. We have people like Honey Manzoor who is willing to come and teach at some Saturdays along with me. We have some movie days with these people where we watch the movies on lives of different missionaries. Last Sunday we watched a movie on the life of William Carey.\n02 07 59996096\\_655251974898418\\_6566575404365119488\\_n (1) Our this fellowship was stopped for a time but praise God that we are meeting again and are able to invest our time, energy and the Word of God into the lives of these young men and women to help them grow as confident Christians. We are praying for some of these to become missionaries and reach other areas with the Word of God. As Lord allows, we reach more and more young people with the Word challenging them to study it and lead their lives as witness of Jesus Christ our Lord.\nAnother Church Planted\nWe have planted church at two places, one is in the town, one outside the town in a village. We have morning service in the city and evening service in the villages. Besides this, we have Friday Fellowship with the brick makers, we have a regular church service with them. Recently we came across a group of people in a village that was abandoned by Roman Catholic church. They have a small place for prayer and worship but were totally un-reached for being very poor and not able to give much to the ministers pastors reaching them. We have adopted these people as our brothers and sisters in Christ and after our meeting with Brick Makers in the morning of every Friday, we are reaching this group in the afternoon of Fridays. Most of the people in this group are also brick makers. They have so many educational and health problems, we are currently able to fulfill their spiritual need only. Please pray for their other needs also and if you know people and some organizations or church projected that are interested to serve in Education and Health fields, please share with them about these precious people. Thank you very much for your faithful prayer support, your love and encouragement for us in so many different and wonderful ways. We love you, God bless you and your family! in Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2019/05/13/mission-field-extended/","summary":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/05/CNHI_A_Sustainable_Year_Banner.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/05/CNHI_A_Sustainable_Year_Banner-300x115.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”___ Galatians 6:9\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Pakistan! We hope and pray for all of you to be fine and happy. The summer has started here, and it\u0026rsquo;s difficult time for most of the people  around us, specially the brick makers and other people who live under the poverty line, a life without basic needs. The power outage makes the life miserable in this time of the year, many diseases breakout, but we praise God that we and all people in our church are fine. Lord is opening doors for us to reach more people in different areas and in this update we want to share with you about that:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Mission Field Extended"},{"content":"Dear Friends and Family,\nGreetings in Christ! We are fine here and are thankful to all of you for prayers and love! We are sorry that we could not send an update last month, God is good and many wonderful things are taking place here. We want you to please continue to pray for us and support the mission projects here.\nMinistry to Uneducated\nWith the provision of Audio Bibles from \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo; we were able to start ministering to new groups of people in our country. These are those who are not able to read or write, disadvantaged and many times handicaps.\nWe are not just distributing these audio devices but are forming groups that get together on different days of the week and listen from the word of God. they they are told to sit together and discuss what they heard and learned. This is truly good and we are being helped by these devices to reach those who were always ignored or who were helpless to learn from the word of God. These simple people are an easy prey to false teachers and prosperity gospel preachers. There are so many people around us to be reached and ministered to in this way. We are thankful for the resources God has provided. We need your prayers and support to be able to reach more people in different areas and spend time with in order to help them form good groups and continue to learn from the word of God.\nFirst Church Trip\nCalvary Chapel Pakistan serves among and minister to simple and mostly disadvantaged people. We planned a church trip this year, and wanted to take our congregation from the town to visit two historical places, one of them is a famous salt mine here in our country and the second one is a historical lake.\nThe trip was really good, most of the people had never in their lives planned or had a trip of this kind. Their daily life is really busy and they are oppressed because of the so much work and pressure to provide for their families. This was not only an educational trip but was also refreshing emotionally, spiritually and socially for the people. We thank God that this was possible for us to have such wonderful fellowship outside of our town and praise God after seeing His marvelous creation.\nBook Published\nI praise God that my book \u0026ldquo;Christian Apologetics\u0026rdquo; in Urdu is published and it is sent to different Christian Bookstores here. We have very good response from the people. We are thankful to God for making this possible, and are also thankful to you for the prayers and support.\nThis book is highly appreciated and well received by the new generation. They need to be engaged apologetically also in the understanding of the word of God. So many times they have very important questions but they don\u0026rsquo;t get proper response or answer from leadership and this drives them away from the church. We believe that this book will serve as foundation for many young and old people to study the word of God in better ways, and thus will enable them to be confident Christians knowing what they believe and why they believe that. We are working on some other projects like this which includes some recordings. Please keep us and the projects of Calvary Chapel Pakistan in your prayers.\nChurch in the desert\nWe are prayerfully planning to start reaching and working in a desert area where we have come to know about the great need for reaching people and encouraging them through sharing the word of God with them. We are in contact with a pastor who is working there for many years. He needs help and support to work effectively. We are praying to get him involved with Calvary Chapel\u0026rsquo;s mission and start a Calvary Chapel in that area. We want to request you to please keep this all in your prayers. We will be able to share more about this special project after our meeting with this pastor who will be visiting us in near future.\nWe are once again thankful to you and want to request you to please keep praying, please do share about Calvary Chapel Pakistan with your friends and family and keep praying for the provision of the needs as well. God Bless You!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2019/04/13/reaching-the-unreached/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings in Christ! We are fine here and are thankful to all of you for prayers and love! We are sorry that we could not send an update last month, God is good and many wonderful things are taking place here. We want you to please continue to pray for us and support the mission projects here.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinistry to Uneducated\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the provision of Audio Bibles from \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo; we were able to start \u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/04/56997463_1006692796189954_2545755187968999424_n.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/04/56997463_1006692796189954_2545755187968999424_n-300x169.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e ministering to new groups of people in our country. These are those who are not able to read or write, disadvantaged and many times handicaps.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Reaching the Unreached"},{"content":"Dear Friends and family,\nGreetings in the name of Jesus Christ! We are thankful to you for the faithful prayers and support. We are sorry that we could not write last month. December and January were very busy months with all church activities, Christmas and New Year Celebration and some other things regarding our ministry registration with the government. Here we would like to give you a brief update about what God has been doing in and through CC Pakistan here.\nChurch Registration\nThe process of the registration is going smooth, as we live in a rented building and in the very same building we have our office. The officials told us that we need to have our office on our personal land. So through this Lord opened the door for us to use the church property that was purchased some years before. We had built a room in a corner of that property. So recently we needed to do some renovation and this place will be registered as the office of Calvary Chapel Pakistan on our official documents. We praise God for making this possible very dramatically. We were not able to use this place first but now it will be in use for different meetings and some other activities of the church.\nChristmas with Brick Makers\nThe Christmas program with the brick makers was really awesome, we are thankful to you for the prayer and for support to help them with food bags, clothes and vitamins. These people were really blessed with all that God provided for them. The brick makers fellowship continues on every Friday as it’s free day for them and our other services are on Sunday, Morning and Evening with our other two churches, besides Women’s Bible study with Farah (Saturday) and Youth Bible study class with Joseph on Friday Evening. Please keep these three groups we are serving among in your prayers.\nBook in Urdu\nThere is good news to share with you that my book on Christian Apologetics in Urdu language is finally going to be printed. God has provided us financial support to print it this month. The book was read by four learned pastors, two of them are professors in two different seminaries, all four of them endorsed it. The work is really liked and I hope it’s going to be great blessing for Pakistani Christians. I want to thank all the friends who prayed with us for this book to be printed and also all those who supported us financially to print it in Pakistan.\nAudio Bible Outreach\nFinally I want to share that we have been receiving Audio Urdu Bibles (in rechargeable devices) from “Faith Comes by Hearing” for those people who are not able to read the word of God. Last year we visited some very remote areas quite far from our place, where people need such things. We wish to go on once a month mission day to such areas. Our one whole day mission trip to such remote areas costs $200. We want to request you to please pray for the need, share the need with your friends and churches and please support this cause as Lord guides you.\nPlease keep our family and team in your prayers. We are thankful to you all for the prayers. We here pray for you and your family!\nBlessings!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2019/02/06/holiday-celebrations-and-church-registration/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings in the name of Jesus Christ! We are thankful to you for the faithful prayers and support. We are sorry that we could not write last month. December and January were very busy months with all church activities, Christmas and New Year Celebration and some other things regarding our ministry registration with the government. Here we would like to give you a brief update about what God has been doing in and through CC Pakistan here.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Holiday Celebrations and Church Registration!"},{"content":"But if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! We are thankful to you for your prayers love and support. Our this update is about the following three things:\nRefreshing Time at CC Asia Conference New Website and Resources in Urdu Planning for Christmas program with some unreached groups Refreshing Time\nI praise God that I was able to go to Chiang Mai last month to attend CC Asia Mission Conference. It was really a very blessed time as I met many of my friends and many other new people from Calvary Chapel Family. Teaching was really great and most important for me was the “fellowship”. This was my first time attending CC Asia Conference and I am really blessed and refreshed spiritually and physically to have a short break from our routine and learn from and fellowship with some really wonderful brothers and sisters. On my way back I stayed for few days at Calvary Chapel Bangkok, which is planted by two wonderful and old friends. It was blessing to see how they were reaching people from many different countries with the Word and love of Jesus Christ. I really wished that my wife and some people from our team also could go. It was not possible because of financial limitation, we are praying for next year’s conference if that be the will of our Father. I want to request you to keep this in your prayers.\nNew Website\nWhile I was in Bangkok, I worked with my friend Tyler to build the website of Calvary Chapel Pakistan [calvarypakistan.com]. In Pakistan, we have so many Charismatic movements where people only learn about health, wealth and prosperity and so-called miracles. And along with this many cultic movements are also working and misleading many Christians. Teaching of the word of God is not very popular in most of the churches. We are going to use this website for Biblical teachings in Urdu language both in written and audio format. We have been working on many different translations in Urdu and we are also recording “Devotional Series” of the sermons, “Through the Bible” and some topical messages. We hope and pray for this website to be a great tool in the hands of our Lord to reach and touch hearts and lives of many people.\nChristmas Plan with Un-reached\nLast year we had wonderful fellowship program with the brick makers, a group of people living outside of the town. They are very poor; they lead really tough life like slaves. We have been reaching them for long time with the word. During some months in this summer we also reached other groups of disadvantaged Christians. Like last year we wish to arrange an event of worship and fellowship with these people and want to request you to join in with us through your support and prayers. Last year we provided some food items, warm clothes and vitamins to those people. Please keep this need, our church services and other activities of the ministry in your prayers!\nI want to use this opportunity to share with you about our ministry\u0026rsquo;s financial condition and need. The account balance of general [operational] funds of our ministry is in negative. We are in need of your prayers and your financial support. If Lord leads you to support Calvary Chapel’s mission project in Pakistan, please Click Here to support CC Pakistan.\nOur Next Update will be about: Brick Makers and Woman Ministry\nThank you very much!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2018/10/04/refreshing-fellowship/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBut if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.      1 John 1:7\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! We are thankful to you for your prayers love and support. Our this update is about the following three things:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eRefreshing Time at CC Asia Conference\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Website and Resources in Urdu\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlanning for Christmas program with some unreached groups\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRefreshing Time\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Refreshing Fellowship"},{"content":"Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.___Acts 20:26-27\nDear Friends and family,Greetings! We praise God that Calvary Chapel Pakistan is working effectively and the ministry has always been fruitful. We are thankful to you for the faithful prayer support and your love through encouraging in every possible way. The month of July has was really amazing time for us in this mission field and we praise God that He blessed our service in His vineyard. _The Sad Situation and outreach_Calvary Chapel Pakistan distributes scriptural book and booklets also printed by \u0026quot; World Missionary Press\u0026quot; in whole Pakistan. Through this we are connected with so many people and churches in the whole country. In the month of May we received a call from an area named Jaranwala to visit them as they wanted to learn from the Word with us. We planned a mission trip, we set out early in the morning and reached the area by 9:00 am after travelling for four hours. People in that area are very poor, we felt that we were at least 15 years back in the history. They work in different factories or in the fields of Muslim landlords. They have spiritual hunger and thirst but they are deceived by Televangelists that they watch daily on TV._I was so sad to know that even if they sell a goat, they travel difficult and long ways in order to give some of the money to those televangelists in other cities,_as this is what they hear them teach everyday with many threats if they don\u0026rsquo;t follow their instructions. People place water, oil and prayer requests on paper before TV, for healing and other needs. They are told on TV that they have to travel to the cities to give their testimonies and offering otherwise they may suffer. It was very sad for us to see that they didn\u0026rsquo;t even have proper understanding about the person of our Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross, rather they have placed their faith in Televangelists who are always teaching them about health, wealth and prosperity, and at the same time robbing them of their hard earned little money. Lord laid on our hearts to teach them about the person of Jesus Christ. We reached different small groups in the different villages and taught about the person of Jesus Christ in detail. This was really helpful for them to know Jesus and have a personal relationship with Him. They whole day we taught them from the Word about true Christian faith, we used multimedia in order to help them understand better. We praise God that our message was well received and we still received very encouraing updates from the areas. Some of people from the village informed a pastor in the city area about us and he also invited us to his church in the evening. Taking the advantage of the opportunity we went to that church. The church members were very vibrant, they welcomed us warmly and I taught there for two hours Apologetically about the person of Jesus Christ, about all the non biblical biblical activities going around and tried to help them study The Word properly for their guidance.. And I am very happy to tell you that\n0004 0003 the message was well received there also, and it pointed people to study the Bible properly and know the Truth themselves presented in the pages of the Word. It\u0026rsquo;s on our heart to continue doing some outreach evangelism even on monthly basis in such areas where they don\u0026rsquo;t have faithful Bible teachers but a TV that mostly keeps on misleading them. We want you to please keep this in your prayers. We need $200 for a trip like this in those far areas, If Lord leads you to help us reach with the Good News of salvation through the Shed Blood of Jesus Christ, Please Support this Outreach Mission of Calvary Chapel Pakistan to the unreached areas. Feed My Lambs\nOur Church in the town is doing really great, we praise God that people love the Word of God as we are teaching them verse by verse and book by book. It is amazing experience for these people and for us as well. In our second church in the village we felt that people were having some hard time understanding the message every Sunday Evening. We prayed\n01 02 07 about it, sought the guidance and will of the Lord and we planned to teach them like little children, using visual aid through multimedia. We spend one hour and 20 minutes on learning together from the Word this way, I teach them one chapter every sunday and we have seen amazing growth in this village church now. People are very thankful, they say that the way they are learning the Word now is going to remain in their hearts and minds forever. We praise God for wisdom and faithfulness to His word. Calvary Chapel Pakistan is always committed to feed the sheep and lambs of the Lord on the pure spiritual food the Bible. We praise Him for strengthening us and always helping, guiding and protecting us. We are thankful to you for all prayer and financial support. The efforts to promote the diligent study of the word by CC Pak is affecting lives in very positive ways. Only the Word of God can open the eyes of all those people who are blinded because of many false teachings around. We are prayerfully leading these small groups to the cross of our Lord by teaching them the Word of God faithfully. We want to request you to please keep Calvary Chapel Pakistan always in your prayers. Your faithful prayers and support encourages and enables us to continue serving in this mission field.\nWomen Ministry\nThis is one of the very important ministries of Calvary Chapel Pakistan through which Farah and her helper in the ministry Monica Gill reach Christian women in the villages with the Word of God.\nCC Pak has established a Sewing Center in the village where Christian girls and women come to learn Sewing Skills and are taught Bible By Monica and Farah. This is a very important ministry as it directly affects very positively Christian families through mothers, sisters and daughters. We\u0026rsquo;ve been facing some challenges regarding this ministry\u0026rsquo;s needs as the support for this is real low. We are thankful to all those who faithfully contribute generously to help this ministry go on. We want to request you to please keep this ministry and all the women being reached in your prayers. Please pray for the support to set up more Sewing Centers at different places.\nThank you very much once again for co-laboring with us through your prayers and support. We love you and pray for you and your families!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\nCalvary Chapel Pakistan\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2018/08/07/laboring-in-the-word/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTherefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.___Acts 20:26-27\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,Greetings! We praise God that Calvary Chapel Pakistan is working effectively and the ministry has always been fruitful. We are thankful to you for the faithful prayer support and your love through encouraging in every possible way. The month of July has was really amazing time for us in this mission field and we praise God that He blessed our service in His vineyard. _\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sad Situation and outreach\u003c/strong\u003e_Calvary Chapel Pakistan distributes scriptural book and booklets also printed by \u0026quot; \u003ca href=\"http://www.wmpress.org/\"\u003eWorld Missionary Press\u003c/a\u003e\u0026quot; in whole Pakistan. Through this we are connected with so many people and churches in the whole country. In the month of May we received a call from an area named Jaranwala to visit them as they wanted to learn from the Word with us. We planned a mission trip, we set out early in the morning and reached the area by 9:00 am after travelling for four hours. People in that area are very poor, we felt that we were at least 15 years back in the history. They work in different factories or in the fields of Muslim landlords. They have spiritual \u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/08/0002.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/08/0002-300x200.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e hunger and thirst but they are deceived by Televangelists that they watch daily on TV._I was so sad to know that even if they sell a goat, they travel difficult and long ways in order to give some of the money to those televangelists in other cities,_as this is what they hear them teach everyday with many threats if they don\u0026rsquo;t follow their instructions. People place water, oil and prayer requests on paper before TV, for healing and other needs. They are told on TV that they have to travel to the cities to give their testimonies and offering otherwise they may suffer. It was very sad for us to see that they didn\u0026rsquo;t even have proper understanding about the person of our Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross, rather they have placed their faith in Televangelists who are always teaching them about health, wealth and prosperity, and at the same time robbing them of their hard earned little money. Lord laid on our hearts to teach them about the person of Jesus Christ. We reached different small groups in the different villages and taught about the person of Jesus Christ in detail. This was really helpful for \u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/08/04.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/08/04-300x200.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e them to know Jesus and have a personal relationship with Him. They whole day we taught them from the Word about true Christian faith, we used multimedia in order to help them understand better. We praise God that our message was well received and we still received very encouraing updates from the areas. Some of people from the village informed a pastor in the city area about us and he also invited us to his church in the evening. Taking the advantage of the opportunity we went to that church. The church members were very vibrant, they welcomed us warmly and I taught there for two hours Apologetically about the person of Jesus Christ, about all the non biblical biblical activities going around and tried to help them study The Word properly for their guidance.. And I am very happy to tell you that\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"gallery gallery-cols-2\"\u003e\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/08/0004.jpg\"\n         alt=\"0004\"/\u003e \u003cfigcaption\u003e\n            0004\n        \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/08/0003.jpg\"\n         alt=\"0003\"/\u003e \u003cfigcaption\u003e\n            0003\n        \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe message was well received there also, and it pointed people to study the Bible properly and know the Truth themselves presented in the pages of the Word. \u003cem\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s on our heart to continue doing some outreach evangelism even on monthly basis in such areas where they don\u0026rsquo;t have faithful Bible teachers but a TV that mostly keeps on misleading them.\u003c/em\u003e We want you to please keep this in your prayers. We need $200 for a trip like this in those far areas, If Lord leads you to help us reach with the Good News of salvation through the Shed Blood of Jesus Christ, \u003ca href=\"https://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=A893D33C53A34E7\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Support\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e this Outreach Mission of Calvary Chapel Pakistan to the unreached areas. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeed My Lambs\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Laboring in the Word"},{"content":"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building. ____1 Corinthians 3:6-9\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings, We send warm greetings and love to all of you and want to thank you for your prayers and support! We all are fine and pray for you to be fine as well.\nVillage Church\nIn this update we mainly want to share with you about the new project of planting church in the village that has been accomplished by the grace of God. At this place there is a good Christian community but they were not being reached and taught. The main problem that this community had was a place to get together for worship and church service. There was not any piece of land, and there was no money to build any building. We\u0026rsquo;ve been having house meetings for almost one year and we kept this great need in prayers.\nFinally a family agreed that we could use their front yard for the meetings. It was open place, no pavement, no covering. To use this place we needed to cover this place. The need was kept in prayers by our team and and by most of you all. And praise God that He provided us with the support to build iron roof shelter on this place. We got the walls repaired and the iron roof shelter was erected at this place to be used a church for the people of this village. We really cannot explain how happy and surprised these people were to see that Calvary Chapel reached them not only with the Word of God but also with great help to have them this place for worship.\nIMG\\_4895 IMG\\_4933 01 After completing all the necessary work last month we dedicated this place as our second church \u0026ldquo;Calvary Chapel Cornerstone Gakhar\u0026rdquo; and it is really awesome to see how wonderfully God works in and through our lives to reach the un-reached and share with them the Word of Life.\nThe yard that presented the picture of wilderness has now become a beautiful place and is being used by hundreds of people to praise our Lord and God. This truly is beautiful picture of our lives. We are thankful to you all for the support. Every Friday our team has house visitation, we are trying to make good connection with all the families there and during this visit we pray for and with those\n03 02 06 families and we also invite them to join us in our Sunday meetings. We praise God to see tremendous growth. We are feeding this second church also on the pure spiritual food \u0026ldquo;The Bible\u0026rdquo; and we believe that Holy Spirit is going to move tremendously here and transform the lives of these people. We once again want to thank you for the support and prayers! Please always keep Calvary Chapel Pakistan in your prayers and please do share about CC Pakistan, specially our prayer requests with your friends and family! God bless you and always keep you under His protection!\nIn Christ Jesus Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2018/07/05/god-makes-it-grow/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building. ____1 Corinthians 3:6-9\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God Makes it Grow"},{"content":"Behold, I will do a new thing,Now it shall spring forth;Shall you not know it?I will even make a road in the wilderness_And_ rivers in the desert.___Isaiah 43:19\nDear Friends and Family,\nWarm Greetings and Love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are always thankful to you for prayers and support and we always pray for you and your family! God is always good, we are serving under his care and protection and the word of God is reaching more and more people every day. As God enables us by His grace, we very humbly and steadfastly are laboring in the word of God.\nThe Village Church\nWe are very excited to share with you that Lord provided the need to build an iron-roofed shelter for our meetings and church services in the village where we have planted our second church. The very devoted people in this village did not have any particular place to gather and have church service, they would come together in different houses, and during the bad weather, cold, heat and rain it would become impossible for us to have meetings. A family has provided their yard to be used for a couple of years for church service and meetings. In the photo here\nIMG\\_4194 IMG\\_4895 you can see our meeting with some of the leading people in that Chrisitan community. And as Lord has provided 80% work of building a shelter is complete now, and very soon this place is going to be used a church by Calvary Chapel Pakistan. People here are very excited, they are poor, work the whole day in fields, even when they are very tired in the evening, they come for the church service. Now as they have a proper place where they will not be affected by the weather severity, they will be able to get together, sit and listen to the Word of God peacefully. Thank you once again for the prayer and your generous support. Please continue to pray for this church and the church that we have planted in the town to keep growing.\nRoman Catholic Group\nA group of Roman Catholic families is being reached by CC Pak for last few months, we are studying Gospel according to Matthew verse by verse with them. They are very happy as the light of the word has started shining in their lives. This group is increasing day by day. The devil definitely is at work, someone in the neighborhood tried to frighten the house-owner and the group that their daily gathering for the study in that house is illegal, and it gives the message that they are trying to start a new church here without the permission of the government, therefore they can be arrested for this. some of the members got frightened, but we are telling them that there is nothing illegal to get together in any house for the prayer and study. The disturbance is almost over now and the routine study of 5 days a week in the evening has continued. As in Calvary Pakistan, we feel burdened by the obligation to share the true word of God in the simplest way to help people understand it. We really really rejoice to see these people grow in the deeper understanding of the word of God, their lives being transformed and their daily meetings being very fruitful. Please continue to keep this precious group in your prayers and pray for CC Pak team also to continue laboring in the Word steadfastly.\nBuilding the Next Generation\nCC Pakistan is spending the good quality time to equip some high school students we are\n01 02 in contact with. Most of them have been confused since their childhood about so many things regarding their faith. Biblical education to the new generation is a very serious and important matter as most of you know. We are using technology, modern approach and apologetically involving them to research and know about their Chrisitan faith. We\u0026rsquo;ve been very successful in this so far. We praise God that this way we are inspiring these wonderful young people to study the word of God themselves with their open eyes and get the deeper understanding of it. We reach and teach this group every Saturday morning. During this last meeting, we were told by the vice principal that the student from the previous badge, who have completed their education at this school also want to join in this class. This really gave us the idea how helpful this class is for these high school students. We are very happy that we are able to invest our time and energy reaching these wonderful people whom we believe God will use in different mighty ways. Our this youth group is desirous to go for a \u0026ldquo;Youth Camp\u0026rdquo; where we can teach them on a particular subject. Teaching on \u0026ldquo;Missions\u0026rdquo; have always been on my heart. We need your prayers and financial support in order to make this Youth Camp possible. Please keep this group and the needs in your prayers.\nOther Ministries\nBesides these the other ministries of CC Pak are going smoothly, We are working on a translation project where we are translating Pastor David Guzik\u0026rsquo;s Bible Commentary into Urdu. We are recording and editing 10 minutes Devotional messages on every chapter of Genesis. I praise God that I was able to join in International Mission Field of SGWM by teaching South Asian students few classes through Skype, and I am open to getting involved in this teaching ministry even more. The church service here in the town, the Sewing School (Woman Ministry) and Brick Maker\u0026rsquo;s Ministry is going well and smoothly. Thanks for your prayers and Support! Family Corner\nMy family, brother Joseph\u0026rsquo;s family, and our staff are fine by the grace of God. Our two older kids go to school, my son is in grade 6 and daughter is in grade 3. My wife has recently started studying in a seminary here. She had been taking some online classes on Biblical Counseling. She felt that she needs proper study in order to have the better understanding of Christian doctrines to be able to get involved in Biblical counseling ministry that Lord has laid on her heart. So the youngest son Jared stays with me until noon, so for me, it\u0026rsquo;s a very busy season till our son starts going to school after 8 months. Please continue to cover our families in your prayers! Thank you for faithfully and generously co-laboring with us in this ministry in Pakistan!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey ","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2018/05/07/god-is-faithful-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBehold, I will do a new thing,Now it shall spring forth;Shall you not know it?I will even make a road in the wilderness_And_ rivers in the desert.___Isaiah 43:19\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm Greetings and Love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are always thankful to you for prayers and support and we always pray for you and your family! God is always good, we are serving under his care and protection and the word of God is reaching more and more people every day. As God enables us by His grace, we very humbly and steadfastly are laboring in the word of God.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God is Faithful"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.\u0026rdquo;___John 17:17\nDear Friends and Family,\nWarm Greetings and love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! We praise God for His love, care and blessings! We are always thankful to you for your prayers, love and support. We are really excited to share with you how God is demonstrating His power in the our lives and the lives of those we are reaching through His Holy Word.\nAbandoned Catholic Group\nDuring our outreach in our surrounding, we meet different people on regular basis, we came across many Roman Catholic groups in the past, but we could not start Bible study or fellowship with them as their intentions of fellowship were material support in different forms rather than Bible study. Many Roman Catholic groups in the villages are abandoned as they are not being reached anymore and the reason can be that this particular church don\u0026rsquo;t have enough Catechists and even priests. The meeting with one particular group was really encouraging as we felt that they wanted to learn from the Word of God. Brother Joseph started studying \u0026ldquo;Gospel of Matthew\u0026rdquo; with them and this has been wonderful experience both for Joseph and this group. They all gather 4 days every week and study gospel of Matthew verses by verse. This week the number of participants was 40+ according to Joseph. Studying the word of God this way, with new perspective personally is first time experience in their whole life. We are so happy to see God working in the hearts and lives of people in such groups which would never allow protestant church to share the Word with them. We work hard in our office to make notes for these people and are prayerfully serving among these people. Please keep this new group in your special prayers!\nBack to Bible\nTelevangelism that includes health and wealth and prosperity gospel is the very dangerous internal invasion on the church, as through this the word is being preached with new and subjective interpretation which is misleading simple people who do not read or listen the true word of God themselves. Calvary Chapel Pakistan is promoting Bible study in many different forms among many groups so that Christians be build on the true foundation of their faith. We are encouraging and helping people to read/study or listen Bible themselves in many ways like:\nAudio Bibles: We have developed 5 groups of those people who cannot read or write, and have provided them Audio Bibles supplied by \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo;. These groups gather regularly on different days of the week and listen to a chapter of Bible, discuss between themselves about the teaching found in that chapter and then pray for personal application. In the following short video, this group is listening to Matthew Chapter 6.\nhttps://youtu.be/3C-a4RMEOR8\nChurch Services: As we serve among mainly un-reached, these poor people feel much attraction towards prosperity gospel. While we share \u0026ldquo;Simply the Word Simply\u0026rdquo; for them to grow in the knowledge of God through Christ, we have witnessed the power of the Word in the lives of these people. Here is the short video of a group we reach and teach on Sunday Evening. These people work in the fields 7 days a week. They come back from fields late in the evening and then we have Sunday meeting with them. Though they are very tired because of the physical work, but many gather with their families to listen the word of God under the open sky on Sunday late Evenings.\nhttps://youtu.be/NRlQ0GGVeFU\nThe same is being done through Woman Ministry, fellowship with Brick Makers and our Youth Bible study weekly. It is blessings to see how the word of God is encouraging people, transforming their lives and building them in the true Christian faith in Christ. Because it is only His word that truly Sanctifies and it\u0026rsquo;s only the Truth that sets us all free, we pray that we may continue to share the true word steadfastly. We always need your prayers, we want to request you to please continue to pray for:\nOur Newly formed groups that listen Audio Bible regularly to grow in Biblical understanding. Our congregations including brick makers that we are reaching with the Word. CC Pak Women Ministry that is taking the word of God to different groups in the remote villages. New Roman Catholic Group that brother Joseph is teaching to. Saturday Morning Youth Fellowship at a Christian High School. God Bless You and your family, We love you and pray for you!\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2018/03/18/your-word-is-truth/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.\u0026rdquo;___John 17:17\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm Greetings and love from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! We praise God for His love, care and blessings! We are always thankful to you for your prayers, love and support. We are really excited to share with you how God is demonstrating His power in the our lives and the lives of those we are reaching through His Holy Word.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Your Word is Truth"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u0026rdquo; Hebrews. 4:12\nDear Friends and family!\nGreetings! We hope and pray for you to be fine, and we are thankful to you for the prayers, and support. We are grateful to be part of Saving Grace World Missions that is impacting many parts of the world including Pakistan. The friends back in office often call us [the missionaries] \u0026ldquo;wold Changers\u0026rdquo; but we in the mission field have over and over again experienced that there is nothing in us that can bring any good change in the world. The only thing that can truly transform any person, family or society is the Word of God. And that\u0026rsquo;s the only sure foundation we need to build our families and communities on.\nIn our country and many neighboring countries, it seems that there is great spiritual and religious revival in Christianity, but the facts reveal something else. So many self proclaimed pastors and religious leaders are emerging from every place and the version of Christianity that they are trying to introduced to people is really distorted. The only thing most of the people seem to be after is physical healing and Prosperity. This is very sad and the pursuit of healing and prosperity is hurting so many people when they could not get what they were running after. And such people are becoming bitter and are turning into critics not of such so-called pastors but whole Christianity. We believe that it\u0026rsquo;s good for them and it\u0026rsquo;s also great chance for true churches to go forward and share the true Word of God with such people.\nWe praise God that Calvary Chapel Pakistan has always been very focused on sharing the\nIMG\\_1946 25138972\\_10156851494083098\\_1419287289\\_o true word of God to all different small groups that we are reaching every week. As you know we have two small congregations, one women\u0026rsquo;s group and one group of brick makers\n27067745\\_1777604889212068\\_6366290872052536379\\_n IMG\\_1092 that is being reached and fed on the word of God by our team, and it is amazing to see these wonderful people growing in the understanding of the word of God and thus being built as true and strong Christians. And during this year we are expanding our mission field by reaching more people through different mediums with the word of God, namely:\nFree Scriptural Book: I\u0026rsquo;ve been working with \u0026ldquo;World Missionary Press Inc.\u0026rdquo; voluntarily for many years and I\u0026rsquo;ve translated their many booklets and books into Urdu language. We praise God that now we have Bible Study books on \u0026ldquo;Genesis, Mathew, John, Romans and Revelation.\u0026rdquo; World Missionary Press in providing these books totally free to Calvary Chapel Pakistan and we are distributing these books among different churches and ministry in whole Pakistan and we are encouraging all those who send us book requests to form different groups to study the word of God in organized and systematic way. And these are not the only books that World Missionary Press is providing, there are 9 other titles of booklets in Urdu that are being provided from the platform of Calvary Chapel Pakistan in whole country.\nMinistry to High Schoolers: We praise God that there are some wonderful people in educational fields who are not just concerned about their business through providing\n02 01 formal education but also are concerned to equip new generation with biblical education. Such is one of my friends named Walter who is principal of a school. He has been asking for starting a regular Bible class at his school on every Saturday during last year, and finally the Bible study is now started properly. It has given us chance to reach about 70 high school students, about 10 staff member and sometimes some of the parents. We praise God for such wonderful opportunity. While I am teaching these wonderful young men and women I am giving them realistic approach to see all that is going around them in the name of Christianity and religious teaching and at the same time helping them to study the word of God themselves.\nMinistry to Un-educated: In every village and area we visit, we meet so many people particularly elderly men and women who cannot read and write. They are fully dependent on others to share the word of God with them. It was always on my heart to help these precious people somehow, and finally Lord has provided a wonderful source for us to help them. A dear Sister and friend in the Lord named Jaylene helped CC Pakistan to get connected with \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo; and after meeting their official requirement, they have sent us first parcel with Audio devices with the recording of New Testament in Urdu language for those Pakistani Christians who cannot read. We are going to form some groups of such people and will provide them with these wonderful devices in order to listen the word of God together, have some discussion and prayer together. This is really amazing how God provides the sources for His people. I\u0026rsquo;ve seen the impact of such audio Bible devices in the lives of some people and I was really encouraged to see how wonderfully their lives were changed after listening the exact words of the Bible themselves. We are very much thankful to \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo; and all of you who pray for us and encourage us to continue contending for the faith and striving to take the word of God to all we can reach. As I\u0026rsquo;ve mentioned before many times, we always need good Christian resources, you are welcome to share with us pamphlets, tracts, books and audio video teachings. We are thankful to you for prayers and support. We want to encourage you to share about Calvary Chapel Pakistan with your friends and family, with your church and Bible study groups. Please continue to pray for us, for the provision of all needs and for the protection of Christian in Pakistan, of our congregations and our team. God Bless You!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2018/02/12/building-on-sure-foundation/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;For the word of God \u003cem\u003eis\u003c/em\u003e living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u0026rdquo;            Hebrews. 4:12\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings! We hope and pray for you to be fine, and we are thankful to you for the prayers, and support. We are grateful to be part of Saving Grace World Missions that is impacting many parts of the world including Pakistan. The friends back in office often call us [the missionaries] \u0026ldquo;wold Changers\u0026rdquo; but we in the mission field have over and over again experienced that there is \u003cem\u003enothing\u003c/em\u003e in us that can bring any good change in the world. The only thing that can truly transform any person, family or society is the Word of God. And that\u0026rsquo;s the only sure foundation we need to build our families and communities on.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Building on Sure Foundation"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.\u0026rdquo; 1 Corinthians 15:58\nDear Brothers and Sister in Christ, Happy New Year! We praise God for His all blessings and protection during year 2017, and we pray for all of you as well as for Calvary Chapel Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s team to be able to serve God faithfully and be under His protection. In this update I am going to share particular about the second church that we have planted outside of town and I also wish to share with you a pressing need.\nThere are about 200 Christian families in a colony outside of our town where we have been visiting for almost last full year. Some visiting pastors have been going there rarely, but those people don\u0026rsquo;t have any appointed pastor and they don\u0026rsquo;t have any particular place [namely church building] to get together for prayer and worship. Since we are reaching and sharing the word of God with these people, they are becoming organized in weekly meetings and other church activities.We had been having Sunday Meetings in the yard of a family in the evenings of spring and summer of 2017, now as the winter has started, it\u0026rsquo;s not possible for the families to gather in the yard for the Sunday meetings as it the freezing cold and foggy, it\u0026rsquo;s very hard to stay outside for even short time.\nDuring Christmas we had special arrangements, we rented out a tent for covering and the people put some dirt in the yard in order to make more leveled place for those people who were going to join us.\nIMG\\_1146 IMG\\_1138 IMG\\_1151 IMG\\_1148 IMG\\_1186 IMG\\_1188 On December 23 the whole work was finished and everyone from younger to older took part in this all arrangement. We took chairs and pulpit from our town to that place for Christmas programs.\nIMG\\_1205 IMG\\_1307 IMG\\_1439 IMG\\_1322 Finally we were able to have services of Dec. 24 and 25 in a tent, many people joined us in the meeting, children had prepared Christmas drama and they presented many Christmas songs. And along with great fellowship and blessed evening, everyone was fed on the living and eternal word of God. We really praise God that these people are growing spiritually as we are studying the life stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph in our Sunday Services and by pondering on their lives, challenges, failures, trust in the Lord and God\u0026rsquo;s faithfulness, we all are being wonderfully encouraged and growing spiritually. As we started reaching these precious souls and we faithfully started serving these scattered people, they have started gathering under the cross of our Lord and now they feel much more united and blessed to be part of our Sunday services and other meetings. We give our Lord all glory and praise and we want to thank all of you for your faithfulness to encouraging us through your prayers and all kinds of support to continue reaching disadvantaged and underprivileged people to share the word of God with them and encouraged them in Christ our Lord.\nNow one of our church member has offered us to use his yard for Sunday Services and all kinds of church activities as long as we need to. We are very much thankful to that fellow and his family but it\u0026rsquo;s not always possible to continue the church activities under open heaven because of weather severity. We need to build a temporary Iron structure and put iron roofing in order to cover that area, we will need to put some dirt there to raise he level of the place in order to make it safe during the rainy season and along with that we need some side coverings, table and chairs, a pulpit, carpets and some lights for the place. After we have temporary structure with iron roofing it will help people to come to the fellowship and it will save us all from the severity of winder and summer as well as rainy season. In order to get this all done we need financial support of $2,130/, so through this post I want to request all of you to please pray for this church that we have planted, pray for us to continually reach them with the true message of the gospel. Please also pray for the provision so that we may build this structure soon as possible. If Lord leads you to financially support this special cause, we will highly appreciate that and will be very much thankful to you!\nOnce again We want to thank you for being our faithful prayer and support partners, we want to let you know that we pray for all of you and we love you!\nIn Christ Jesus Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2018/01/03/new-beginning/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.\u0026rdquo;      1 Corinthians 15:58\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/01/download.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/01/download-300x83.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Brothers and Sister in Christ, Happy New Year! We praise God for His all blessings and protection during year 2017, and we pray for all of you as well as for Calvary Chapel Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s team to be able to serve God faithfully and be under His protection. In this update I am going to share particular about the second church that we have planted outside of town and I also wish to share with you a pressing need.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"New Beginning"},{"content":"\u0026quot;\u0026hellip;and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.\u0026quot; Acts 1:8\nFriends and Family in Christ Jesus, Merry Christmas!We send love and greetings to all of you from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. It\u0026rsquo;s really exciting to see how amazingly God works in the lives of the believers, and teaches them in most wonderful ways to be his true and effective witness. Reading great books has been my passion and I thought that the source of gaining knowledge through books and wonderful teachers was powerful and sufficient training for a pastor to server effectively. But very soon it became clear that it takes much more than mere knowledge. Church Planting is very challenging but most wonderful and powerful experience for a pastor, the everyday challenges, obstacles, fears, uncertainty, disappointments, resistance and much more is part of the mission, but when he sees the result of God\u0026rsquo;s work through his life and ministry, that joy fills his whole world and there is nothing like that joy and satisfaction! When a simple person starts having clear understanding of the word of God after being taught by a pastor, it truly means much more than a blind to see the light of this world!\nCalvary Chapel Pakistan started church planting project among those who are least of the society and ignored people in many ways. There were many confusions, reservations and fears at the start but God has been faithful as our shield, protection and provider. In this journey of leading a totally new group gave us better understanding of the ministries of Moses, Joshua, Nehemiah and Jeremiah. But what a joy that with His help and grace we have been able to be His steadfast witness among those we serve.\nBrick Makers\nThis group never expected that anyone will come out of city to an abandoned place to encourage them, to be with them and lead them. We give our Lord glory that He made it possible, and through out these all years he has been enabling and encouraging us to reach these who are very precious to Him. And this small congregation of brick makers is thriving spiritually as they are being build on the sure and solid foundation of the word of God.\n1 2 02 03 We Praise God that we were able to take care of many of their spiritual as well as material needs. And that has given them the real taste of our Lord\u0026rsquo;s love as we became our Lord\u0026rsquo;s true witness not only to them but many around them. Liaqat Masih a poor and weak guy was suffering from Tuberculosis, he was totally unable to make bricks and provide for his family. He was expecting his death as many of his relatives had been talking about it very often after seeing his physical condition. We are thankful to you for praying for us and Liaqat, his care and proper medication has finally saved his life, and he is happily living with his family. Though he still is very weak physically, but is getting well with every passing day and is very happy. His owner who is not Christian is really impressed by power of the true love and care of our Lord Jesus Christ through His servants. We praise Him and Give our Lord all glory!\nIMG\\_0355 25075679\\_10156851499993098\\_1372832360\\_o DSC09961 25189704\\_10156851493733098\\_1833734282\\_o Church\nIt\u0026rsquo;s really encouraging for us to see that the church is growing, though we have just the land for the church bought in an area where people were hopeless of any such activity, people in that area are happy for the faithful ministry of the Word. Many more are joining, there is another group of more than 50 families in the neighborhood that is interested to have fellowship with us. We have just one meeting with them so far last Friday. We are open to reach and share the word of God with them. We are very hopeful that this new group will also come under Calvary Chapel Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s spiritual care. Please keep this group and our team in your prayers! We have submitted application for the permission to have Christmas and New Year services at the property of the church and we are hopeful that we will be granted this special permission for the celebration of Christmas and New Year! Now regarding the second church we\u0026rsquo;ve planted outside of our town, people there are very committed, a guy from the congregation has provided his yard to be used for Church services and activities as long as we need. We need some basic arrangements namely the roof, and we\u0026rsquo;ve decided to have iron roofing like the one you see in the photos bellow.\n02 01 Besides this we are in need of some chairs, carpet and pulpit. We are praying for the provision and want to request you to come along our side through prayers and support.\nThe women ministry is also growing and working in awesome way, we are amazed to see how powerfully word of God works in the lives of people. All that we are doing is \u0026ldquo;sowing the seed\u0026rdquo; of the true word of God in the simplest way we can, and it is so powerfully transforming the lives of people. Your prayers and support for this ministry are always appreciated.\nNew Urdu Book\nDuring couple of last years I\u0026rsquo;ve been struggling to manage time to complete a book that I always wanted to write. I felt burdened for many years to share what I\u0026rsquo;ve learned in order to help our current and next Christian generation. So finally my first Urdu Book titled \u0026ldquo;Christian Apologetics\u0026rdquo; [a really needed teaching for Pakistani Christians] is complete now. Some of my pastor friends are doing proof reading, and soon it will be ready for printing. The book consists of 350 pages, 12 chapters divided into 3 parts. This book is going to encourage the readers to study the Word of God in depth with better understanding, get clear understanding of \u0026ldquo;essential Christian doctrines\u0026rdquo; and be equipped to give reason for the Hope they have, in a better way. This book covers a lot of material and hopefully will be a powerful tool in the hands of Christians in Pakistan. We need to get this book printed and for that we need your prayers support. The printing cost per copy will be $2.5 and we need to get 1000 copies printed. We want to request you to please keep this need in your prayers, and if the Holy Spirit leads you to support financially, please do that, we will be very much thankful to you for that!\nOur family, congregation and staff is doing great and send you love andblessings! We pray for you and always need your prayers! God Bless You!\nIn Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2017/12/10/being-his-witness/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026quot;\u0026hellip;and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.\u0026quot; Acts 1:8\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/12/Merry_Christmas_Banner_PNG_Clipart_Image.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/12/Merry_Christmas_Banner_PNG_Clipart_Image-300x78.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriends and Family in Christ Jesus, Merry Christmas!We send love and greetings to all of you from Calvary Chapel Pakistan. It\u0026rsquo;s really exciting to see how amazingly God works in the lives of the believers, and teaches them in most wonderful ways to be his true and effective witness. Reading great books has been my passion and I thought that the source of gaining knowledge through books and wonderful teachers was powerful and sufficient training for a pastor to server effectively. But very soon it became clear that it takes much more than mere knowledge. Church Planting is very challenging but most wonderful and powerful experience for a pastor, the everyday challenges, obstacles, fears, uncertainty, disappointments, resistance and much more is part of the mission, but when he sees the result of God\u0026rsquo;s work through his life and ministry, that joy fills his whole world and there is nothing like that joy and satisfaction! When a simple person starts having clear understanding of the word of God after being taught by a pastor, it truly means much more than a blind to see the light of this world!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Being His Witness"},{"content":"This is the WPForms preview page. All your form previews will be handled on this page.\nThe page is set to private, so it is not publicly accessible. Please do not delete this page :) .\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/wpforms-preview/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the WPForms preview page. All your form previews will be handled on this page.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe page is set to private, so it is not publicly accessible. Please do not delete this page :) .\u003c/p\u003e","title":"WPForms Preview"},{"content":"Dear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Pakistan! We praise God for His love, protection and grace, we all are doing great and pray for all of you! We are thankful to you for keeping us all in your thoughts and prayers!\nCalvary Foundation Youth Fellowship\nMy meeting with Pastor Trent in Europe was very inspirational, when I came back my wife and I started to pray and plan, and we started a youth group by the name of \u0026ldquo;Calvary Foundation Youth Fellowship\u0026rdquo;. First day we had 6 guys there who came and we had wonderful fellowship and prayed together. We have started a weekly Bible study with them, we meet on every Monday at 5 pm and have Bible study till 6:30 pm. The number of the people who are joining is increasing, and we are very excited about what Lord is going to do and accomplish through this group of young people who are joining us!\nIMG\\_0007 IMG\\_0051 IMG\\_0093 We wish to grow this fellowship, train these young men and send them for serving the Lord at different places in Pakistan. We are planning a Winter Camp with these people, we will go to Murree Hills during the snow fall and for three days we will study \u0026ldquo;Biblical Theology of Missions\u0026rdquo; Please keep this fellowship and all plans in your prayers.\nChurch of Brick Makers\nWe have been reaching the group of Brick makers for years now and they are also our one small church. We have fellowship and service with them every Friday and the first Friday of every month is our mission day, with the help of these brick makers we reach other people like them at different locations.\nMonsoon is a very difficult time for them as they don\u0026rsquo;t have work in these months and it\u0026rsquo;s hard for them to feed their families, secondly their living places are filled with water and so many poisonous animals like different snakes and other reptiles come to their houses. They are in tough slavery but we are always blessed to see their great love for the Lord and hunger and thirst for the word of God. I want to share some needs these people have, if Lord leads you to help them please join us in prayer and support of these people.\nWe wish to help these people with warm cloths in the winter that is approaching, if we get support from our friends and family we can purchase used clothes to help these people remain warm in the winter. We need floor mats for these people to sit on during the service and fellowship. They are very poor but very sincere people, please keep this need also in your prayers. On Christmas we wish to arrange a special program for the Brick Makers, we want to bless them with our love and care. If you would like to contribute in this program, you may send your support for our Christmas with Brick Makers\u0026rsquo; program where we will invite other brick makers also from different brick kilns around. God has called us to encourage these precious souls through our prayers and spiritual and material means. We want to request you to come along side with us in this ministry for Brick Makers.\nThe Church\nThe church is going well, as I\u0026rsquo;ve shared with you in past that we have planted another Calvary Chapel outside of our town and we have Sunday Evening Service there. Recently I met some Christian political figures and some people from Human Rights organizations, they have promised to help us get our organization registered soon. Please keep this in your prayers as we are trying to push the process of registration. The Women Ministry is going well, thank you very much for prayers, our women ministry support was very little, now one of the friends has committed to support this on regular basis, we are seeking more commitments like this prayerfully. The General Funds of CC Pak have almost finished, we use these funds for the general needs of the ministry, we want to request you to please keep praying for this specific need and please do share about Calvary Chapel Pakistan with other friends and some churches if it\u0026rsquo;s possible for you! Our family is also fine, schools of our kids have re-opened after summer vacation. Thank you very much for keeping our family and team in your prayers. Kindly go to our \u0026ldquo;Prayer Requests\u0026rdquo; page to find out about the requests and needs of CC Pakistan. God Bless you and your families!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2017/08/16/amazing-grace/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Pakistan! We praise God for His love, protection and grace, we all are doing great and pray for all of you! We are thankful to you for keeping us all in your thoughts and prayers!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCalvary Foundation Youth Fellowship\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy meeting with Pastor Trent in Europe was very inspirational, when I came back my wife and I started to pray and plan, and we started a youth group by the name of \u0026ldquo;Calvary Foundation Youth Fellowship\u0026rdquo;. First day we had 6 guys there who came and we had wonderful fellowship and prayed together. We have started a weekly Bible study with them, we meet on every Monday at 5 pm and have Bible study till 6:30 pm. The number of the people who are joining is increasing, and we are very excited about what Lord is going to do and accomplish through this group of young people who are joining us!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Amazing Grace"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.\u0026rdquo; __1 Cor. 3:7-9\nGreetings to you all our friends and family! We are almost in the middle of year 2017, the time really flies. We praise God that our lives are being used by Him working in His field. God is always good and He is blessing the ministry in Pakistan every day. We are thankful to you for co-laboring with us in this ministry through your prayers, encouragement in different ways and support. As you stand with us in this mission field, we feel very loved, every encouraged and confident and it also helps us to remain steadfast. So Thank You!\nNew Church Planting\nWe are very excited to share with you that we have started weekly fellowship with another group of Christians in a village that consists of 45 families. As the population of the village was increasing and the areas became congested these people thought to come out of those congested places and start another community at a distant place. With the passage of time of 17 years, now they are 45 Christian families. We came to know this group of people through our out-reach program. They do not have any pastor and church in their area, they were very happy to come to know Calvary Chapel, and are very happy to come under the covering of Calvary Chapel as congregation. We are reaching these people twice a week, on Sunday Evenings we have main service with them and on every Thursday brother Joseph have Bible studies with children and youth (13-25 years old). The only thing that attracted them to Calvary Chapel is the simple teaching of the word of God in an ordered way. Although so much is going on around us in the form of healing crusades and Christian concerts but people rarely find the word of God being shared at those events. During fellowship with these people when we always shared the word with great love and passion, the Holy Spirit really touched the hearts and minds of these people and they have decided to come under Calvary Chapel. Please keep this all in your prayers, this is going to be our second church in the surrounding of our town Gujranwala.\nThe Word of Grace that Builds up\nMost of the people here have many kinds of spiritual influences, a large majority was under Roman Catholicism for a very long time which left it\u0026rsquo;s marks on their souls. Many are falling an easy prey to new movements, liberal and Charismatic theology and many cults. We know from the word of God that only thing that can build people up and protect them is God Himself and His word of Grace. We keep people engaged in the study of the word of God in many different ways. During our Sundays we are going through Genesis as we want our\nDSC08776 DSC08494 DSC08804 congregation to have good understanding of our Christian doctrines that have foundation in the book of Genesis. On the Fridays we have topical teaching mainly done from the New Testament giving them more and more insight into the Bible based Christian living in order to be a witness of our Lord in this world. We have also developed short Bible studies for the children and teenagers. We are feeding them on the pure word of God regularly and we praise God when we see their lives being transformed. The areas where Lord led us to work are very low socially, the people we are serving among are underprivileged, but it gives us great joy to see them healthy and growing spiritually by being fed on the word of God. Please continue to pray for Calvary Chapel Pakistan, we want to invite you to get involved in this ministry through praying for us, sharing about CC Pak with other friends and family and your church and by supporting to provide the needs for this ministry.\nWomen Ministry\nWomen ministry is another very important project of our church, Farah along with her helper Monica reach to the remote areas, have meetings with women there, encourage them in the Lord and start Bible studies with them. We started this with one village but the ministry is growing very fast.\nDSC08604 DSC08594 IMG\\_8988 This is really a wonderful ministry that is impacting not only the lives of the Christian women in the villages, but the families and the next Christian generation as these women learn from the word of God to lead their lives in the fear of God and it also helps them to build their families according to the teachings of the Bible. The one Sewing School that we have under this ministry is going well, we have request to start more sewing centers in the other places where this ministry has Bible Study groups, we want you, our brothers and sisters to keep the need of Sewing Machines for this ministry in your prayers. We are very happy to share with you the praise report that last week we received an AIR COOLER for the Sewing School as gift from two of our friends. As these women get together daily to have fellowship and learn sewing skills in the scorching heat of the day, this air cooler is really a great blessing for them.\nWe are thankful to you for faithfully praying for us and graciously coming forward to stand with us through your support, love and care, God Bless You! we pray for you and your family!\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2017/05/09/harvest-time/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.\u0026rdquo; __1 Cor. 3:7-9\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to you all our friends and family! We are almost in the middle of year 2017, the time really flies. We praise God that our lives are being used by Him working in His field. God is always good and He is blessing the ministry in Pakistan every day. We are thankful to you for co-laboring with us in this ministry through your prayers, encouragement in different ways and support. As you stand with us in this mission field, we feel very loved, every encouraged and confident and it also helps us to remain steadfast. So Thank You!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Harvest time"},{"content":"Get Involved In Calvary Chapel Pakistan Thank you very much for visiting our web page. If Lord leads you to get involved in this ministry in Pakistan, we want to welcome you! You can get involved in this ministry through following three ways:\nPrayer: Please pray for/with us for the different purposes and needs of Calvary Chapel Pakistan. Please Click Here to go to our prayer requests page. You can also join our Prayer/Support Group on facebook. Share about CC. Pak: Being in Pakistan we don\u0026rsquo;t have direct access to many friends and family and churches to share about our ministry with them. We seek the opportunities to share with other Calvary Chapels and many other people about this wonderful ministry serving here for last 9 years. You can get involved in this ministry by sharing about it with your friends, family members, other churches and ministries to join us in this mission in Pakistan. Support: We also want to request you to support our ministry financially, you can learn about our needs through our prayer requests on this page and our facebook Prayer/Support Group. If Lord leads you to support us financially, please go to this page, and mention specifically what ministry you want to send your support for. Thank you and God Bless You!\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/get-involved/","summary":"\u003ch2 id=\"get-involved-in-calvary-chapel-pakistan\"\u003eGet Involved In Calvary Chapel Pakistan\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/05/Get-Involved.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/05/Get-Involved-300x206.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank you very much for visiting our web page. If Lord leads you to get involved in this ministry in Pakistan, we want to welcome you! You can get involved in this ministry through following three ways:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrayer:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e Please pray for/with us for the different purposes and needs of Calvary Chapel Pakistan. Please \u003ca href=\"/massey/prayer-praise/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eClick Here\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e to go to our prayer requests page. You can also join our \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/208526292656903/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrayer/Support Group\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e on facebook.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShare about CC. Pak:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e Being in Pakistan we don\u0026rsquo;t have direct access to many friends and family and churches to share about our ministry with them. We seek the opportunities to share with other Calvary Chapels and many other people about this wonderful ministry serving here for last 9 years. You can get involved in this ministry by sharing about it with your friends, family members, other churches and ministries to join us in this mission in Pakistan.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSupport:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e We also want to request you to support our ministry financially, you can learn about our needs through our prayer requests on \u003ca href=\"https://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=A893D33C53A34E7\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ethis page\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e and our facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/208526292656903/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrayer/Support Group\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/a\u003e If Lord leads you to support us financially, please go to this page, and mention specifically what ministry you want to send your support for.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank you and God Bless You!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Get Involved"},{"content":"Please send your support to Saving Grace World Mission for Calvary Chapel Pakistan using the following link:\nhttps://sgwm.shelbynextchms.com/external/form/a1889e87-6f9f-4a32-9e6b-a40b381389f6\nPlease following the instructions given bellow in order to help us keep in touch with you and send you our updates, thanking notes, praise reports and prayer requests:\nPlease Specify clearly the project of CC Pak you want to send your support for. Write Comment if you want to send special instructions. Please provide us your email address in order to send you Thanking Letter. In Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/donate/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePlease send your support to Saving Grace World Mission for Calvary Chapel Pakistan using the following link:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.shelbynextchms.com/external/form/a1889e87-6f9f-4a32-9e6b-a40b381389f6\"\u003ehttps://sgwm.shelbynextchms.com/external/form/a1889e87-6f9f-4a32-9e6b-a40b381389f6\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlease following the instructions given bellow in order to help us keep in touch with you and send you our updates, thanking notes, praise reports and prayer requests:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease Specify clearly the project of CC Pak you want to send your support for.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite Comment if you want to send special instructions.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease provide us your email address in order to send you Thanking Letter.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Christ Jesus\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Donate"},{"content":"First Calvary Chapel in Pakistan This is first ever Calvary Chapel in Pakistan. The journey started in 2006 when life of Nadeem Massey, currently pastor and mission leader of CC Pakistan was changed after listening to Pastor Chuck\u0026rsquo;s C-2000 Series \u0026ldquo;Through the Bible\u0026rdquo;. Pastor Nadeem Massey was born and brought up in a Roman Catholic family. After High School he was sent to become a \u0026ldquo;Catholic Priest\u0026rdquo;. But God had some other plans, he quit the education in that Catholic seminary and went to study further in a college.After his life was changed, he contacted some Calvary Chapels in America, translated some of Pastor Chuck Smith\u0026rsquo;s books in Urdu with the permission of \u0026ldquo;The Word for Today.\u0026rdquo; and started his Biblical education online fromCCBC Murrieta.He started serving as national missionary withSaving Grace World Missions. This whole work continued for years faithfully. He was ordained in 2015 as first Pakistani Calvary Chapel Pastor and now he has planted two churches in Pakistan. We have our main church in Gujranwala town, God has provided land to us for the building, we are waiting for permission from Govt. to have church building there. God will make it possible soon in near future. CC Pakistan exists because of mission work of \u0026ldquo;Saving Grace World Missions\u0026rdquo;and this church is fully mission minded, reaching the un-reached in the remote areas of Pakistan. Some of the main ministries of our church are as bellow: Village and Brick Maker\u0026rsquo;s Ministry We planted one village church about 4 years before. This is a community of 32 Christian families they neither had a church building nor a pastor. They would request different pastors for the marriage and funeral services. There was no Sunday service, no Bible study or other church meetings. A family offered us their place to be used for church meetings. God provided us help to iron sheet roof top and we started Sunday service in that place. We praise God that this village church has been growing ever since and people of that village are really blessed and happy.Calvary Chapel Pakistan has been committed to reach the un-reached in all possible ways. We have some groups of brick makers who are living like slaves bought with the money. Their every generation is born under a large amount of debt that their family owes to the owners of brick kilns. These groups don\u0026rsquo;t have the very basic needs provided. No medical care, no proper food, no education. Though we are not able to provide money for them released from the debts, but we are reaching them every Friday to share the word of God with them and help them grow in their Christian faith. We call them our \u0026ldquo;Third Church\u0026rdquo; here. God has been providing support for some food and some times for medications during at special occasions, during any disaster and pandemic situation and we have also been providing such support for them whenever possible. We are using Audio Devices with Urdu Bible recording provided by \u0026ldquo;Faith Comes by Hearing\u0026rdquo; to lead these precious souls through the Word of God._Desert MissionLast year God granted us an opportunity to travel to a city nearCholistan Desert. our five days \u0026ldquo;Vision Tour\u0026rdquo; actually turned into great \u0026ldquo;Mission Trip\u0026rdquo; as there was great opportunity for us to reach very disadvantaged people who professed their faith in Jesus Christ. In the deep villages, people are really poverty stricken, many of them live like slaves who are chained in the night time so that they may not run away. Our contact and host there was a very good person who took us to many areas, we met people, gave them Urdu Bibles in printed form. We gave Audio Players with Solar panel (chargeable with sunlight) so that they may listen the word of God. This gift came from\u0026quot;Faith Comes by Hearing.\u0026quot; We have great vision for that area, we are going to reach to these un-reached people in this tough, remote and quite dangerous area by God\u0026rsquo;s grace. We believe our ministry in the desert is going to grow and God is going to bring something really great and big out of it.Online Bible School_Our visit to the desert led us to plan a teaching project in that area. It was not easy because we live at almost 500 kilometres away from that area. God led and He provided needs to start an online Bible study. We are teaching them \u0026ldquo;Simply the Word Simple\u0026rdquo; We have 40 students in a city near desert, the student\u0026rsquo;s interest is growing as they continue to learn and dig deeper in the Word of God with every class. Our Bible class extended to another city where one friend of Pastor Nadeem wanted to start Bible study with him. He arranged a place, God provided laptop and projector for this class as well and this class also continues with almost 50 students. We have added now a third group of Bible students in Online Bible Study class. The group is formed by a friend of leading pastor of \u0026ldquo;Living Way Fontana\u0026rdquo;. We praise God that a project started with a vision tour in 2019 has turned into Bible study with three different groups. We are praying to start recording of (audio/video) \u0026ldquo;Through the Bible Series\u0026rdquo; Bible classes and topic messages in near future. Women\u0026rsquo;s Ministry Calvary Chapel Pakistan has a wonderful woman ministry. We have established one \u0026ldquo;Sewing Center\u0026rdquo; in a village where poor Christian women come to learn the sewing skill. We use this Sewing center as a platform to share the word of God with these Christian women of the village to encourage and build them as true and strong Christians. Most of the Christian women work in the fields and lead a tough life, we believe that their lives can be better and easy after they learn the sewing skills and also when they grow more in their faith.One of the main project of this ministry is providing Christian women with \u0026ldquo;Biblical Counseling. In this culture, women mostly feel oppressed and they feel that they are not able to express their pain, problems and issues of life. CC Pak Women\u0026rsquo;s ministry has provided a platform for such women to come and share the problems and issues with our Pastor\u0026rsquo;s wife and receive godly Bible based counselling. We are praying to take this ministry to the desert area as well in our next mission trip there. We are praying to start more sewing centers at some other places, and as Lord will provide we will be reaching other villages also. Right now we have one Sewing Center and two Bible Study groups at different villages. Various on-going projects Calvary Chapel Pakistan is working very hard to produce solid Bible based teachings in Urdu language. We are building our website www.calvarypakistan.com where we are putting a lot Bible study resources, most of the study material is translated from English to Urdu. We have a counter-cult project where we bring awareness about different cultic movements working around us and help people have spiritual discernment in the light of the word of God. We also have a Youth Group by the name of \u0026ldquo;Calvary Foundation Youth Fellowship\u0026rdquo; where we are reaching the youth of our both churches with the teaching of the Word of God. We request you to kindly keep Calvary Chapel Pakistan in your prayers and if Lord leads you for the financial support pleaseCLICK HERE\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/ministries/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Calvary Chapel in Pakistan\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e This is first ever Calvary Chapel in Pakistan. The journey started in 2006 when life of Nadeem Massey, currently pastor and mission leader of CC Pakistan was changed after listening to Pastor Chuck\u0026rsquo;s C-2000 Series \u0026ldquo;Through the Bible\u0026rdquo;. Pastor Nadeem Massey was born and brought up in a Roman Catholic family. After High School he was sent to become a \u0026ldquo;Catholic Priest\u0026rdquo;. But God had some other plans, he quit the education in that Catholic seminary and went to study further in a college.After his life was changed, he contacted some Calvary Chapels in America, translated some of Pastor Chuck Smith\u0026rsquo;s books in Urdu with the permission of \u0026ldquo;\u003ca href=\"http://www.pastorchuck.org/\"\u003eThe Word for Today\u003c/a\u003e.\u0026rdquo; and started his Biblical education online from\u003ca href=\"https://calvarychapelbiblecollege.com/home/\"\u003eCCBC Murrieta\u003c/a\u003e.He started serving as national missionary with\u003ca href=\"/\"\u003eSaving Grace World Missions\u003c/a\u003e. This whole work continued for years faithfully. He was ordained in 2015 as first Pakistani Calvary Chapel Pastor and now he has planted two churches in Pakistan. We have our main church in Gujranwala town, God has provided land to us for the building, we are waiting for permission from Govt. to have church building there. God will make it possible soon in near future. CC Pakistan exists because of mission work of \u0026ldquo;\u003ca href=\"/\"\u003eSaving Grace World Missions\u0026rdquo;\u003c/a\u003eand this church is fully mission minded, reaching the un-reached in the remote areas of Pakistan. Some of the main ministries of our church are as bellow: \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVillage and Brick Maker\u0026rsquo;s Ministry\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e We planted one village church about 4 years before. This is a community of 32 Christian families they neither had a church building nor a pastor. They would request different pastors for the marriage and funeral services. There was no Sunday service, no Bible study or other church meetings. A family offered us their place to be used for church meetings. God provided us help to iron sheet roof top and we started Sunday service in that place. We praise God that this village church has been growing ever since and people of that village are really blessed and happy.Calvary Chapel Pakistan has been committed to reach the un-reached in all possible ways. We have some groups of brick makers who are living like slaves bought with the money. Their every generation is born under a large amount of debt that their family owes to the owners of brick kilns. These groups don\u0026rsquo;t have the very basic needs provided. No medical care, no proper food, no education. Though we are not able to provide money for them released from the debts, but we are reaching them every Friday to share the word of God with them and help them grow in their Christian faith. We call them our \u0026ldquo;Third Church\u0026rdquo; here. God has been providing support for some food and some times for medications during at special occasions, during any disaster and pandemic situation and we have also been providing such support for them whenever possible. We are using Audio Devices with Urdu Bible recording provided by \u0026ldquo;\u003ca href=\"https://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/\"\u003eFaith Comes by Hearing\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rdquo; to lead these precious souls through the Word of God._\u003cstrong\u003eDesert Mission\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLast year God granted us an opportunity to travel to a city nearCholistan Desert. our five days \u0026ldquo;Vision Tour\u0026rdquo; actually turned into great \u0026ldquo;Mission Trip\u0026rdquo; as there was great opportunity for us to reach very disadvantaged people who professed their faith in Jesus Christ. In the deep villages, people are really poverty stricken, many of them live like slaves who are chained in the night time so that they may not run away. Our contact and host there was a very good person who took us to many areas, we met people, gave them Urdu Bibles in printed form. We gave Audio Players with Solar panel (chargeable with sunlight) so that they may listen the word of God. This gift came from\u0026quot;\u003ca href=\"https://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/\"\u003eFaith Comes by Hearing\u003c/a\u003e.\u0026quot; We have great vision for that area, we are going to reach to these un-reached people in this tough, remote and quite dangerous area by God\u0026rsquo;s grace. We believe our ministry in the desert is going to grow and God is going to bring something really great and big out of it.\u003c/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnline Bible School\u003c/strong\u003e_Our visit to the desert led us to plan a teaching project in that area. It was not easy because we live at almost 500 kilometres away from that area. God led and He provided needs to start an online Bible study. We are teaching them \u0026ldquo;Simply the Word Simple\u0026rdquo; We have 40 students in a city near desert, the student\u0026rsquo;s interest is growing as they continue to learn and dig deeper in the Word of God with every class. Our Bible class extended to another city where one friend of Pastor Nadeem wanted to start Bible study with him. He arranged a place, God provided laptop and projector for this class as well and this class also continues with almost 50 students. We have added now a third group of Bible students in Online Bible Study class. The group is formed by a friend of leading pastor of \u0026ldquo;\u003ca href=\"http://www.livingwayfontana.org/\"\u003eLiving Way Fontana\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rdquo;. We praise God that a project started with a vision tour in 2019 has turned into Bible study with three different groups. We are praying to start recording of (audio/video) \u0026ldquo;Through the Bible Series\u0026rdquo; Bible classes and topic messages in near future.\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWomen\u0026rsquo;s Ministry\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e Calvary Chapel Pakistan has a wonderful woman ministry. We have established one \u0026ldquo;Sewing Center\u0026rdquo; in a village where poor Christian women come to learn the sewing skill. We use this Sewing center as a platform to share the word of God with these Christian women of the village to encourage and build them as true and strong Christians. Most of the Christian women work in the fields and lead a tough life, we believe that their lives can be better and easy after they learn the sewing skills and also when they grow more in their faith.One of the main project of this ministry is providing Christian women with \u0026ldquo;Biblical Counseling. In this culture, women mostly feel oppressed and they feel that they are not able to express their pain, problems and issues of life. CC Pak Women\u0026rsquo;s ministry has provided a platform for such women to come and share the problems and issues with our Pastor\u0026rsquo;s wife and receive godly Bible based counselling. We are praying to take this ministry to the desert area as well in our next mission trip there. We are praying to start more sewing centers at some other places, and as Lord will provide we will be reaching other villages also. Right now we have one Sewing Center and two Bible Study groups  at different villages. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVarious on-going projects\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e Calvary Chapel Pakistan is working very hard to produce solid Bible based teachings in Urdu language. We are building our website \u003ca href=\"http://calvarypakistan.com/\"\u003ewww.calvarypakistan.com\u003c/a\u003e where we are putting a lot Bible study resources, most of the study material is translated from English to Urdu. We have a counter-cult project where we bring awareness about different cultic movements working around us and help people have spiritual discernment in the light of the word of God. We also have a Youth Group by the name of \u0026ldquo;Calvary Foundation Youth Fellowship\u0026rdquo; where we are reaching the youth of our both churches with the teaching of the Word of God. We request you to kindly keep Calvary Chapel Pakistan in your prayers and if Lord leads you for the financial support please\u003ca href=\"https://www.egivingsystems.org/v3.0/index.php?client_id=58823\u0026amp;recurdate=3%7C18\u0026amp;recurdate_first_label=3rd%20of%20every%20month\u0026amp;recurdate_second_label=18th%20of%20every%20month\u0026amp;purposeid=336\"\u003eCLICK HERE\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Ministries"},{"content":"How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?_ _Romans 10:14\nWe send warm greetings and love from Pakistan to all our friends and family! We praise God for all protection, guidance and help throughout the whole month. our country is part of 10/40 Windows, but this part of world is full of different spiritual ideas and different philosophies, people are religious, they always want to believe in something or someone. There is great spiritual hunger and thirst and when they don\u0026rsquo;t get true spiritual food, then they are happy with anything available. There are so many people who think and believe that they are Christians because they were born into a Christian family, they know the name of Christ but are not truly saved because they don\u0026rsquo;t know the Lord personally.\nWe really felt sad when we reached a group of poor brick makers who are socially, physically, financially and spiritually oppressed but are devoted to get together and pray, but did not know who actually they are praying to because their mystical leader claimed to believe in Jesus and practiced magic and other things like that as well. We really feel sad about so many such groups that are not being reached by true teachers and preachers. We praise God that our out-reach team was able to reach this group, our team shared with them the word of God, took them under the care of Calvary Chapel Pakistan and encouraged them in Christ Jesus. We are thankful to all of you who pray for us so faithfully and encourage us in so many ways. This always enables us reach the un-reached and share with them true word of God boldly. We give all glory to God who has always protected us as we serve here. We firmly believe that ignoring the \u0026ldquo;Great Commission will be the Great Omission.\u0026rdquo; After being in fellowship with CC Pak, this group is really encouraged and is being visited weekly and is being fed on the true word of God. Please keep these precious people in your prayers\n03 02 04 Feeding and Tending\nOur teaching ministry continues at our church [currently house meeting], in different\n02 01 3 Bible Study groups at different places in the town, and women Bible study in three villages. We are tending and feeding the sheep and lambs on the word of God faithfully and always commend them to God and His word of Grace which is truly building them and we are vary happy to see lives being transformed through the teaching and preaching of\n03 16442777\\_10154243133810823\\_667869290\\_o 4 the word of God. We want to request you to specially pray for the Women Ministry, it is really growing and is truly fruitful but we don\u0026rsquo;t have proper support for this ministry because of which we have been facing some financial problems to meet it\u0026rsquo;s needs.\nA Guest from America\nI am very happy to share with you about a special guest that we had last month. Jim Mansfield became my friend on facebook, and one day in January he sent me message that he was visiting a guy in Gujranwala town for evangelistic mission, and he said that he would love to see me if it was possible. I told him that I lived in the very town he was visiting. We invited him for lunch at my home, he had very busy schedule because he was visiting many places to share the word of God and Christian hope with them, but he was gracious enough to come to our home and we really had wonderful fellowship. Jim is from Utah, he has association with many Calvary Chapels, he loves the Lord, loves to reach people with the Good News of Salvation through the Shed Blood of Christ. We were very happy that he was able to make it to Pakistan and we hope and pray for more people specially from our church to be able to come here in future.\nFirst Urdu Book\nI praise God that in spite of being very busy with my teaching ministry, my study, translations and taking care of my family, I was able to manage some time to write a book on \u0026ldquo;Christian Apologetics\u0026rdquo;. My book is almost complete, and is ready to be sent to some pastor and Bible teachers for proof reading and checking. And after that we are praying to send that to printing process. Here we have to get books printed ourselves from a printing press, we don\u0026rsquo;t have publishing companies here. The cover of this book is designed by a pastor friend named Tosh Wood, I am thankful to Him for the help and I want to request you to please keep this need in your prayers, We will need financial support for printing this 250 pages book. This book will be very helpful for Pakistani Christians as they face so many challenges because of their faith. I hope that this will help many seminary students and will be a unique took in their and common Christians\u0026rsquo; hands in their own language.\nAt the end we want to thank you once again for your faithful prayers and support, we really love you in the Lord and we always cherish your love and blessings!\nGod Bless You!\nNadeem and Farah Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2017/03/10/word-of-grace/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?\u003c/em\u003e_ \u003cem\u003e_Romans 10:14\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe send warm greetings and love from Pakistan to all our friends and family! We praise God for all protection, guidance and help throughout the whole month. our country is part of 10/40 Windows, but this part of world is full of different spiritual ideas and different philosophies, people are religious, they always want to believe in something or someone. There is great spiritual hunger and thirst and when they don\u0026rsquo;t get true spiritual food, then they are happy with anything available. There are so many people who think and believe that they are Christians because they were born into a Christian family, they know the name of Christ but are not truly saved because they don\u0026rsquo;t know the Lord personally.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Word of Grace"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.\u0026rdquo; (2 Timothy 4:2)\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings and Love from Pakistan! During all these years of ministering we have literally experienced the impact of \u0026ldquo;Simply Teaching the Word Simply\u0026rdquo; in the lives of people we have met and ministered to. Simply Teaching the word has not only changed many lives around us, but it has been continually changing our own lives to better. God has laid on our hearts to \u0026ldquo;Reach\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Teach the Word\u0026rdquo; more than anything else, and we praise God for all the wisdom and guidance He always provides. The concept of expository teaching is new and not very popular here. People feel much fascination in Healing Crusades, Health Wealth and Prosperity Gospel. Now a days we have many Christian TV Channels here and most of them are taking people away from the Bible rather than bringing them close to it.\nWe know that the Word of God is the most power thing that transforms every person it touches. Our vision for 2017 is to reach people with the Bible and inspire them to study it. We have been faithfully teaching very small groups and now Lord is opening doors for us to reach large groups specially young people, mostly High School student of next generation.\nOne of our Bible Study Groups at a Christian School\nAs we reach these people and teach the word of God to them, we find that they have so many misconceptions about the word of God. We are helping them to have the literal understanding of what God wants to teach us through His word, and at the same time we beware them of different kinds of misinterpretations and misuses of the word of God by false teachers and cultic movement. It is so encouraging to see these wonderful people developing their interest in studying the word of God properly.\n2 1 3 These students have tons of questions but no platform to get proper answers, they are very happy for this special class with us through which we not only study the Bible but also learn more about it\u0026rsquo;s authenticity. During the month of January we had four classes on \u0026ldquo;Evolution and Creation\u0026rdquo;, now we will have look at Bible as the \u0026ldquo;Book of Prophecies\u0026rdquo; with this particular group of students.\nNew Creature in Christ\nMonica (supervisor), Kiran (instructor) \u0026amp; Farah\nWith Alishbah (Sewing School Instructor)\nWomen Ministry has so many stories of changed lives, when we reached those areas first time, most of the women were busy working in the fields, and they were ignorant about their spiritual life. God touched hearts of some women to come forward to join Farah for reaching other women with the Word of God and empowering them with the Sewing Skills. The impact of this initiative has been very much powerful ever since and we rejoice to see these precious souls coming to know their real position in Christ Jesus. These women are very vibrant at the Bible study and at the Sewing Center. This project of women Ministry has given new meaning to their lives. Every person has a joyful story to tell, the families have started to experience the blessings of Christ\u0026rsquo;s love in their lives. This ministry is very important and this is working for and among those who are considered low in this culture and society, and therefore are ignored. This ministry has kept growing since it started, but we don\u0026rsquo;t have proper support to meet all needs of this. We would like our friends and family to visit facebook page of this ministry https://www.facebook.com/CCPWM/ and keep the team and all the needs in your prayers. We also want you to please join us in co-laboring in Pakistan so that we may reach more people every week to help them know Christ and grow spiritually as true Christians.\nEquipment Tools\nTones of free literature from cults like Jehovah\u0026rsquo;s Witnesses, Mormons, Oneness Pentecostalism and Branhamism is circulating all around us in Urdu language, and many new books by people like Jae Rock Lee, Joyce Meyer and Choo Thomas are being translated and printed here for free distribution. We feel great need for good Christian books to give in the hands of people so that they may grow instead of being misled. Three years before we printed Pastor Chuck Smith\u0026rsquo;s book \u0026ldquo;Effective Prayer Life\u0026rdquo; in Urdu, this small book really was a great help for everyone who read it. This clarified people\u0026rsquo;s concepts about prayer, and encouraged them to lead prayerful life. This book was one of the great tools Farah and Women Ministry Team used to help those ladies learn about their spiritual condition and guide them to start praying. We have received many books from \u0026ldquo;The Word for Today\u0026rdquo; with the permission of translation, we wish to have \u0026ldquo;Basic Calvary Series\u0026rdquo; in Urdu and for that we need your prayers and support. If you know someone who will be interested to support translation and printing of such good Christian books for Pakistani Christians please get us introduced to them.\nAt the end we want to thank you for your faithful and generous support, your love! Our whole family and team is fine and we are thankful to you for always covering us with your prayers, we love you and pray for you and your families!\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2017/02/10/equipping-the-saints/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.\u0026rdquo; (2 Timothy 4:2)\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and Love from Pakistan! During all these years of ministering we have literally experienced the impact of \u0026ldquo;Simply Teaching the Word Simply\u0026rdquo; in the lives of people we have met and ministered to. Simply Teaching the word has not only changed many lives around us, but it has been continually changing our own lives to better. God has laid on our hearts to \u0026ldquo;Reach\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Teach the Word\u0026rdquo; more than anything else, and we praise God for all the wisdom and guidance He always provides. The concept of expository teaching is new and not very popular here. People feel much fascination in Healing Crusades, Health Wealth and Prosperity Gospel. Now a days we have many Christian TV Channels here and most of them are taking people away from the Bible rather than bringing them close to it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Equipping the Saints"},{"content":"Dear Friends and Family!\nGreetings from Pakistan, We praise God for His faithfulness and we are thankful to you for your love, care and support! CC Pak team spent most of the time last month with un-reached Christian communities around us. Our Christmas and New Year Church meetings were great and we had wonderful time of worship, prayer and fellowship with these amazing people who till now had been living like scattered people living a disconnected life. Through their fellowship in Calvary Chapel Pakistan they felt their connection with each other in Christ. And we praise God that now most of them have feeling of being one with the Christian community and their lives are now becoming more organized.\n1 2 4 We have been also serving among brick maters who live a very different kind of life and are not directly attached to the main society. They live at a distant place, we praise God that we were able to encourage them in the Love of Christ through His word and some of our Christian friends came forward to join us to help them with some food items on the special occasion of New Year.\n1 2 3 These people are also part of our congregation, we have been reaching them with the word of God for years now and we have seen them growing in their Christian faith. Most of their life is spent working hard in isolation, they are neglected people, but we praise God that God has enabled Calvary Chapel Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s mission team to continually reach them and many others at different places around our town. As most of you know that God has blessed us with the piece of land for the church, we have now the boundary walls around the land for our Church but because of some legal issues we cannot use this place for meetings yet.\nWe are moving slowing, very carefully and wisely to get governmental approval for our church, and we are very hopeful that God will help us with everything, though there is some opposition, God Himself will deal with al that in His unique way. Once we start using this place and [future building] here as our church, all these different groups are God willing going to join us.\nOur different Bible studies are going well and we praise God that we are able through His grace to reach many people around us with the word of God and we are able to train our future generation to become true and faithful Christians i this country.\n1 3 4 CC Pak Women Ministry has also grown much during the last year, the women ministry team has also adopted out-reaching approach, along with having \u0026ldquo;Sewing Center\u0026rdquo; and weekly Bible study there, they are also reaching some other areas with the word of God and they encourage and strengthen the Christian women of different villages around by sharing the word of God with them and by inviting them to have fellowship with them on regular basis.\n1 2 4 Our families are also fine and healthy, we are thankful to you for your faithful prayers, care and support. Please continue to keep us all and this ministry in your prayers. We always need your love and support in the very same way. As the ministry grows, some of our general needs are also increasing. We want to encourage our friends and family to send some support for CC Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s general needs as well. Thank you! we pray for you and your families, God Bless You!\nin Christ Jesus\nPastor Nadeem Massey \u0026amp; CC Pak Team\nPlease Click Here to go to our \u0026quot; Prayer Request\u0026quot; Page!\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2017/01/16/calvary-chapel-pakistan-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Pakistan, We praise God for His faithfulness and we are thankful to you for your love, care and support! CC Pak team spent most of the time last month with un-reached Christian communities around us. Our Christmas and New Year Church meetings were great and we had wonderful time of worship, prayer and fellowship with these amazing people who till now had been living like scattered people living a disconnected life. Through their fellowship in Calvary Chapel Pakistan they felt their connection with each other in Christ. And we praise God that now most of them have feeling of being one with the Christian community and their lives are now becoming more organized.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Calvary Chapel Pakistan (January) 2017"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.\u0026rdquo;____Galatians 6:9 Dear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! we all here are doing great and want to thank you for always covering us with your prayers! We are sorry that we have not been able to keep updating you about the church here, we will be providing you some short updates now more frequently!\nChurch Building The main thing that we need to update you about right now is the \u0026ldquo;Church Building\u0026rdquo; We know it is a little delayed and many of you have been prayerfully waiting for this special project to start. First of all we want to share with you the location of our church. The area where we have purchased the land for the church is not very developed, it is developing slowly and might take few years for that. We have planted our first Calvary Chapel in this area and, we had been having the church service and fellowship with these people for two years now, our congregation consists of very neglected Christian families in the town. They have been living here for last 30 years but they did not have any particular pastor or church. So We started going to them and planted our church there. We have been praying for the Church building, and Lord has blessed us with the piece of land and also support to have our own building in near future.\nThe reason for the building procedure to be slow is that we have to walk very wisely as we live among most of non-Christians, most of them don\u0026rsquo;t like to have a church building in their neighborhood, so we had to do all the ground work for that, we need to go slow and steady. We are still in process of getting full permission from our government for Church Building, meanwhile we have started to work on the first phase which includes, boundary wall around our piece of land, filling some dirt in the area to raise the ground level, lay solid foundation for the main building, have a small room in our piece of land which will be used for many purposes including weekly fellowship till we have main sanctuary, and puting a gate there. Here are some of the photos that we want to share with you where you can see how we started and how far we have reached.\nThe Foundation\nBasic Construction 3 4 6 7 26 Boundary Wall Construction\n1 3 5 2 6 7 8 9 10 Main Foundation and Room\n1 3 2 4 5 7 8 9 10 This is the progress of the building so far. Though we won\u0026rsquo;t be entering into the second and final phase of our church building yet, but our congregation will have a walled place and a room to get together, have main service and fellowship. Our congregation is excited that they will have main service for Christmas at this place. We are thankful to Saving Grace Mission\u0026rsquo;s team, thanks to you all friends and family for keeping us in your prayers and for supporting us. We love you and pray for you here!\nIn Christ Jesus\nCalvary Chapel Pakistan Team\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2016/11/14/church-building/","summary":"\u003ch3 id=\"and-let-us-not-grow-weary-while-doing-good-for-in-due-season-we-shall-reap-if-we-do-not-lose-heart____galatians-69\"\u003e\u0026ldquo;And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.\u0026rdquo;____Galatians 6:9\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Calvary Chapel Pakistan! we all here are doing great and want to thank you for always covering us with your prayers! We are sorry that we have not been able to keep updating you about the church here, we will be providing you some short updates now more frequently!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Church Building"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;You are all around me on every side; you protect me with your power. Your knowledge of me is too deep; it is beyond my understanding.\u0026rdquo;\n____Psalms 139:5,6\nGreetings and love to all our brothers and sisters in Christ. The greatest joy for us is to be servants of our Lord here as He is working great things in the lives of hundreds of peoples. We are thankful to you all for always supporting us with your love, prayers and care. Summer in Pakistan did not come as quickly as we were expecting, the month of April was very pleasant and cold at most of the time, but now the summer has started and it is getting hotter and hotter every day. Our church team, our families and congregation is fine, we praise our Lord and God for protection and want to thank you all who pray for us.\nWitness of Christ The church that we planted is in a corner of our town where there are many Christian families but because there was no church there at all, Christian families were living individually, lonely without any fellowship among themselves. When we visited the area first time many of us were not very hopeful that things were going to work, though we were sensing the urge and leading of the Holy Spirit. We praise God who enables and empowers us to continue serving Him. Since we have started church in the area now Christian families are joining in and are having wonderful fellowship. Now the families are coming to know each other and people are happy to see the presence of the Christians in that area. They are no more separately living by themselves individual families, but all of them have come together in Calvary Chapel and are now ONE FAMILY in Christ. This was the first time that they got together for the service of Resurrection Sunday. Our family was so blessed to be among those all whom our Lord loves so much and has appointed us for serving them. Not only that, but our small congregation also had Sun-Rise Service also, which is commonly organized here at many churches. This all is taking place first time in the history of this area.\n1 3 2 We praise God that we could reach to people in this corner of the town and we could become good witness of Christ to them. Now they are witness of Christ in that area. Our regular Church services and Bible teaching programs are going well now only in our church but at different places of the town. It is exciting to see how powerfully the Word of God is changing the lives, people love the teaching of the word of God and many are coming out of so-called Christian movements as the word of God is opening their spiritual eyes. We are thankful to all of you who are praying for us there. We are in process of getting permission of government for church building here, it is taking some time, but we are hopeful that though it might be late, but everything will work smoothly for us. Please keep this also in your prayers!\nOut-reach One thing that is missed in most of the churches here is Out-reach Evangelism, but reaching out to other people is the foundation of our ministry and church here. We have never been careless about this and this mission work continues along with church, arrangement of Bible study groups at different places in the town, sermon recording and other things. Our team is faithfully reaching people at different places to share the gospel of Christ.\n1 2 3 God has blessed us with two motor bikes which will be mostly used for out-reach evangelism. Please continue to pray for us as we reach many un-reached souls here and also pray for all those we are reaching, that the word of God may transform their lives and help them grow in their Christian faith.\nWomen of Faith Women Ministry of our church started through a Sewing Center where Farah started weekly Bible Study while the women got together there everyday for learning Sewing and knitting skills. Through this ministry we are reaching many villages to share the word of God with girls and women. The amazing thing is that the weekly Bible study has turned to be Daily Bible study at the first village where we started the Sewing Center. Once again we saw that how powerfully word of God works in the lives of His people. During recent visit of Farah there were many old ladies with great witnesses of how the word of God has changed their lives.\nDSC05409 DSC05407 DSC05422 The Sewing Center continues to work and we praise God that our ultimate goal is being fulfilled through the center, which is sharing the word of God with people and helping them to experience the grace of God through Jesus Christ. Our youngest son Jared can be seen in the last two photos as he joins his mama on mission now!\nFamily Corner Our family is fine, Joshua and Rachael are busy with their studies and we have our youngest son with us to keep us busy everyday. The schools will be closed by the end of May, 2016 for summer vacation and both older kids are going to have more time with their younger brother. We Praise God for their good physical and spiritual health. They are growing very fast.\nOur friend and co-worker Joseph\u0026rsquo;s family is also fine, please continue to pray for the protection and well being of our families as we serve here. We don\u0026rsquo;t post much about our families here on purpose, we have prayer group on facebook by the name Massey Prayer Support Group, you may join us there and see information about our families and also learn about our prayer requests there. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/208526292656903/].\nWe love you and pray for you!\nin Christ Jesus\nMassey Family\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2016/05/06/lords-vineyard/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;You are all around me on every side; you protect me with your power. Your knowledge of me is too deep; it is beyond my understanding.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e____Psalms 139:5,6\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings and love to all our brothers and sisters in Christ. The greatest joy for us is to be servants of our Lord here as He is working great things in the lives of hundreds of peoples. We are thankful to you all for always supporting us with your love, prayers and care. Summer in Pakistan did not come as quickly as we were expecting, the month of April was very pleasant and cold at most of the time, but now the summer has started and it is getting hotter and hotter every day. Our church team, our families and congregation is fine, we praise our Lord and God for protection and want to thank you all who pray for us.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Lord's Vineyard"},{"content":"Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.___Isaiah 43:19 We praise God for all that He has done and continue to do in and through Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to all our friends \u0026amp; Family for all prayers, love and support and want to send greetings and love to all of you!\nChurch Planting First Calvary Chapel has been planted in Pakistan, in a corner of the town we are living in. This Calvary Chapel consists of poor, ignored and disadvantaged people and we are so honored and blessed to minister to them. We are particularly teaching and building the new generation of this area while we minister to all the members of congregation humbly and faithful.\nDSC04805 DSC04815 DSC04816 We are required here to have a separate private place for church service and worship. Praise God that the land and been purchased, and here are the photos of the basic work being done to lay the foundation of our church building.\n11 15 19 23 26 27 The land that we have purchased currently is 25 x 50 =1250 Square feet, which is a small piece of land, we are praying and considering if we could buy another piece of land of the same size in order to have enough place for main sanctuary, and some place for parking and other church activities.We glorify God for the provision of funds for the church building. We want to thank all our brothers and sisters for supporting. We are in process of obtaining legal permission from Government for the church building, please keep this whole process in prayers.\nWomen Ministry Calvary Chapel Women Ministry is also working wonderfully. It was started 3 years before, this ministry reaches the Christian women of the villages, establishes a “Sewing Center” as a platform to reach women, and along with sewing skills this ministry teaches the Word of God to those women. This ministry is currently in need of 10 more sewing machines this year, 3 additional for this center as current 5 machines are not enough, and 7 for another center we are praying to start in another village.\n1 2 3 4 Family Corner We praise God for His protection of us all here while we serve and we want to thank you for always covering us with your prayers! God has blessed us with another son in January, we’ve named him Jared Azariah Massey [we will be sharing the family photo soon with you all]. Other both kids are doing great and are studying well. Their final exams are over and after the result, they will be promoted to the next classes in coming week. Our whole team is also fine, please continue to pray for us and our church here!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2016/03/01/our-god-is-faithful/","summary":"\u003ch5 id=\"behold-i-will-do-a-new-thing-now-it-shall-spring-forth-shall-you-not-know-it-i-will-even-make-a-road-in-the-wilderness-and-rivers-in-the-desert___isaiah-4319\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBehold, I will do a new thing,\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow it shall spring forth;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShall you not know it?\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eI will even make a road in the wilderness\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd rivers in the desert.___Isaiah 43:19\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe praise God for all that He has done and continue to do in and through Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to all our friends \u0026amp; Family for all prayers, love and support and want to send greetings and love to all of you!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Our God is Faithful!"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.\u0026rdquo; 2 Tim. 2:13 First Calvary Chapel Pastor in Pakistan We are very happy to share with you that I [Nadeem Massey] was ordained as First Pakistani Calvary Chapel Pastor in Nepal on Oct. 25, 2015 by Calvary Chapel Saving Grace, in Yorba Linda, California. I\u0026rsquo;ve been serving with Saving Grace World Missions since 2008 as national missionary in Pakistan, and during that time I continued to have my online Bible College studies from Calvary Chapel Bible College Murrieta, California.\nWe all are so exited to see all that Lord has been doing in \u0026amp; through our lives and we are also very much excited about all that Lord is going to do in Pakistan through this ministry in future. It is great blessing for us to be co-laborer with Saving Grace World Missions. Through this letter we want to send our special thanks to our pastors, our care-team members and all of our friends and family who have been encouraging and supporting this ministry for so many years. We are thankful to you for faithfully encouraging and supporting us while we have been serving here.\nI praise God for being ordained on His appointed time. Now we are seeking His will, guidance and help to start an official [Calvary Chapel] church in Pakistan.\nChurch Planting We have different small Bible groups of Christian people in and around our town that have been studying with us for years now. But during last six month Lord brought us to a disadvantaged Christian community in one corner of our town. Most of the people are brick makers. Many people from the villages are moving to the towns in order to get better jobs. These people have also come from different villages, and they are working in the town to feed their families. Many new families are also moving to this part of the town. We have two weekly meetings with these people. As we don\u0026rsquo;t have any building or proper place for meeting, most of our meetings are in open places, or in the yard of a Christian family. We are praying to purchase some land and build a small church in that area. And for that we want to request you to keep this special need in their prayers and if Lord encourages you to support Calvary Chapel Pakistan for this project it really will be a great blessing for us all here. In the first phase we will purchase a piece of land for building the church, and along with that we will start the process of registration of our church with our government. And when we have enough funds, we will start the building.\nWomen Ministry Women Ministry is one of the important ministries of CC Pak. We praise God that two groups at two different villages have graduated. The Christian ladies of those two villages are now skillful in Sewing, Knitting and Cutting. We have moved the Sewing Center to a third village whereas weekly fellowship and Bible Study continues at all three villages. We have requests from some other villages to start Sewing Center and Bible Study with them. Please keep the financial need of this ministry in your prayers so that we may start more centers in the surrounding villages.\nFamily Corner Our whole family is fine by the grace of God and we are thankful to all of you for keeping us in your prayers. My wife Farah is pregnant and we are going to have another son in January 2016. Please keep Farah in your prayers!\nPrayer Requests Please CLICK HERE to see our Prayer Requests\nWe are thankful to you once again for all love, support and prayers! We love you and pray for you!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2015/11/11/god-is-faithful/","summary":"\u003ch4 id=\"heading\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"2-tim-213\"\u003e2 Tim. 2:13\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"first-calvary-chapel-pastor-in-pakistan\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Calvary Chapel Pastor in Pakistan\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/11/2.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"2\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/11/2-225x300.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e We are very happy to share with you that I [Nadeem Massey] was ordained as First Pakistani Calvary Chapel Pastor in Nepal on Oct. 25, 2015 by Calvary Chapel Saving Grace, in Yorba Linda, California. I\u0026rsquo;ve been serving with Saving Grace World Missions since 2008 as national missionary in Pakistan, and during that time I continued to have my online Bible College studies from Calvary Chapel Bible College Murrieta, California.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God is Faithful"},{"content":"\u0026quot;\u0026hellip;for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.\u0026quot; Phil. 2:13\nDear Friends and Family\nGreetings! We praise God for His Special protection, guidance and provision as we serve here and we are thankful to you for the faithful co-laboring with us through your prayers and support. We all are fine by God\u0026rsquo;s grace though it is very hot and humid here these days and over that in every summer we all here face the problem of power outage. So many people have died in Pakistan and India this year due to excessive temperature. So please keep this part of the world in your prayers!\nChurch Planting Weekly Bible Study at Christian Book Shop\nWe have been serving for almost 8 years by reaching villages to share the word of God with Christians and to encourage them in the Christian faith through Bible Studies. The expository Bible study of the Book of Genesis was very helpful for all these groups. We still have Bible study groups at different locations in our town and the largest one was started few months before at a rented place, in a Christian book shop \u0026amp; library. We are studying book of Genesis on Saturdays and have topical study on every Tuesday at this place.\nCalvary Chapel Ratta Chaal\nNow Lord is leading us to start an official Church in the town. We have many families with us who totally depend on us for their spiritual needs, and they also have many other needs which can only be provided by an official church, for example performing the marriages and leading funeral services etc. In order to start a church the very first things is to get it registered with our government, and for the registration, there are certain requirements like:\nWe need to have a specific number of families in our congregation. We need to have our own personal place [piece of property] for our church meetings. If we don\u0026rsquo;t have building at first, we need to have high walls around the place for security. DSC03162\nOnly after meeting these requirements we will be able to apply for the registration, and when we have a registered church only then we can function properly. We are prayerfully seeking God\u0026rsquo;s guidance for every step regarding starting Calvary chapel in Pakistan officially. This project has been approved by our Senior Pastors and the board of our mission organization. We are already having our two church meetings weekly with our this new small congregation. There are many Christian families around them, we hope those are also going to join when they learn about our church planting in the area and our weekly meetings.\nSo the very first things we are working on is \u0026ldquo;raising support\u0026rdquo; for purchasing land for our church. We want to request you to please keep this in your prayers and we also want to invite you to be part of the project in any possible way the Spirit of God leads you.\nWomen Ministry CC Pak Women Ministry Trip to Lahore city\nWe praise God for CC Woman Ministry and how it is impacting the lives of poor women of the villages. The ministry arranged a trip last month and the Sewing School students were very happy to go to the neighboring city and visit some important and historical places including Pakistan Bible Society. This was great experience for them as many of them went very first time to even our neighboring city.\nThe women ministry will be organizing the graduation ceremony in coming months. The ministry has encouraged these women to continue growing in their spiritual life and also use their sewing skills to lead a better life and support their families as well.\nPraying to start sewing center with this group also.\nAnd we praise God for the wonderful results of CC Pak Women Ministry. The women ministry is also praying and seeking the will of God to start another Center in one village. We have been requested by this new group for starting the Sewing Center in their area as there is great need, and as we are having weekly fellowships (Bible Study) with this group for last several months. we are praying for the provision of support to start this new sewing center and want to request you to please keep this in your prayers and invited you to be part of this through your prayers and support as Lord leads you.\nWe are thankful for your the prayers and your generous support of Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We love you and pray for you!\nin Christ Jesus\nNadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2015/07/10/he-guids-the-humble/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;\u0026hellip;for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.\u0026quot; Phil. 2:13\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings! We praise God for His Special protection, guidance and provision as we serve here and we are thankful to you for the faithful co-laboring with us through your prayers and support. We all are fine by God\u0026rsquo;s grace though it is very hot and humid here these days and over that in every summer we all here face the problem of power outage. So many people have died in Pakistan and India this year due to excessive temperature. So please keep this part of the world in your prayers!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"He Guids the Humble!"},{"content":"“The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower”\nPsalm 18:2\nDear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Pakistan, We praise God for His faithfulness, grace and protection, and give Him glory for all that He has being doing in and through Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to you for the prayers, your love and generous support. The ministry work continues, and we all are fine by our Lord’s Grace!\nProvision of a Place\nWe have been reaching small Christian groups in the villages around our town to share the word of God with them and encourage them in their Christian walk during all past years. We praise God that last month Lord opened a new door of opportunity for us and He provided us a place in the town where we now share the word of God with many Christians of our town twice a week.\nThis actually is the foundation of Calvary Chapel (church) in the city area. Many people are coming to the meetings to learn from the Word of God, at the same time they are also learning much about Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful that God provided this opportunity to us and now we are able to reach and share the word of God in our town. This place is actually a Christian library, and is a temporary meeting place for us as long as Lord wants us to serve here, but this is a wonderful start of Calvary Chapel in the city area. We believe and hope that very soon in future God is going to bless us with a proper place for the meetings of Calvary Chapel Pakistan.\nOutreach\nOur outreach in the villages continues as before and we are reaching the villages faithfully. We praise God for enabling us to work constantly though quite slowly, the lives are being changed for eternity and people are growing spiritually. Right now we have 5 Bible study groups in the surrounding of our town and one of these groups is “small church of brick makers”. We praise God to see these hard working, heavy-laden people finding rest and peace in the word of God. We are thankful to all of you for continually keeping us in your prayers.\nWomen Ministry\nThe women ministry is also working very effectively. Through the Sewing School project of the women ministry the poor Christians ladies are not only able to learn sewing Skills, but also have spiritual growth through weekly Bible Study. Here we want to submit a special prayer request for the Sewing School Instructor, we have learnt a day before that she fell from motor-bike and has hurt herself badly. Kindly keep her in your special prayers!\nThank you very much once again for all love, your prayers and support of this ministry in Pakistan! We love you and Prayer for you and your families!\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2015/04/13/gods-grace-is-sufficient/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e“The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsalm 18:2\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Pakistan, We praise God for His faithfulness, grace and protection, and give Him glory for all that He has being doing in and through Calvary Chapel Pakistan. We are thankful to you for the prayers, your love and generous support. The ministry work continues, and we all are fine by our Lord’s Grace!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God's Grace is Sufficient!"},{"content":"“I am the vine, youarethe branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without me you can do nothing.” John. 15:5 Greetings!\nWe praise God for His faithfulness and we are really excited to share how wonderful He has been working in and through our lives in this place - which is a battlefield in the real meaning.\nFirst of all, we want to ask that you pray for all Christians in Pakistan as they constantly suffer for their faith. In the first week of the month of November a young man and his wife (brick making couple) were burnt alive in a brick kiln after a false accusation of ‘Blasphemy’. This news sent a very terrifying message to all Christians in the country. Pray that they may find comfort in Christ Jesus.\nChurch Planting bm1\nThis is most exciting thing to share with you that we have planted a small church which consists of 12 Christian brick makers’ families. These families were living outside the city near a brick kiln for decades. They professed to be Christians and had been living their simple faith during all this time. They remained faithful to the name of Christ and apart from it they had nothing. Nobody was reaching and teaching them about Christianity.\nbm2\nWe came to know about this group of people while distributing Free Urdu Bibles to poor Christian villagers. The Holy Spirit led us to reach these people and start teaching them. Now these bricks makers are our small congregation which is being reached weekly and we cannot explain how wonderful this experience is for these people and for our team.\nHome Churches/Bible Study Groups BS Group\nIn four different villages we have home churches where we have weekly Bible study. We are so blessed to see the lives of these people being changed because of this fellowship.Two young men from one village group Bible Study have decided to serve in the future ministry in Pakistan. We praise God for their calling and we are praying to send them to Calvary Chapel Bible College Nepal [http://www.ccbcnepal.com/] in the future.\nOne of our Bible study group consists of very vibrant people who once were hyper charismatic. Through simple verse by verse Bible study with us for one year the whole group has wonderful testimony to share that how powerfully and wonderfully the word of God has transformed their minds and lives.We praise God for this all and we thank you all for your prayers and support!\nPlanned church planting A group of about 30 people are inspired because of our simple Expository Teaching of the word of God. A godly family has provided and renovated their extra house to be used for the new home church/Bible study in the neighboring town. We are going to start our Bible study with this group on December 4, 2014. It is amazing to see how powerful the word of God is and when people taste it once, they develop a great hunger and thirst for it. All glory to our Lord and God forever!\nWomen Ministry DSC00865\nWomen’s ministry started by CC Pak a year ago has amazingly touched the hearts and lives of poor women of unreached villages. Farah started a study on “Effective Prayer Life” by Chuck Smith. This was a wonderful foundation and a good start to clear up many misconceptions the ladies had about their spiritual and prayer life. And now these groups are studying the Gospel of Matthew with Farah. There is no greater joy than to see a person accepting Jesus Christ as personal savior and submit his/her life to the Lord.\nWomen’s Ministry has also had a wonderful project of Sewing Center. One group of a\nNew Students at Sewing Center in the next village\nvillage has graduated from it and we have moved the center to a new location. There is much growth in this; the instructor has to teach these ladies in two shifts daily as the students are increasing. We have provided them 5 Sewing Machines in the past and now we have a request for 6 more Sewing Machines for the center. We want to request you to please pray for the provision of the need.\nFamily Corner DSC02360\nOur whole family is fine by the grace of our Lord. Kids are growing so fast. Our son Joshua turned 8 in July 2014, and our daughter is in the sixth year. She recently lost her first tooth and is happy and excited about all of this\nFarah and I, and Joseph and his family are all doing great! It is wonderful to be in this ministry serving The Lord in this country. We are thankful to all of you for your prayers! Thank you very much for co-laboring with us through your support. We love you and we pray for you and your families!\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey\nTo learn morn about Calvary Chapel Pakistan\u0026rsquo;s other projects please CLICK HERE\nTo know about our weekly Praise Report and Prayer Requests Please CLICK HERE\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2014/12/01/walking-in-his-will/","summary":"\u003ch3 id=\"i-am-the-vine-youarethe-branches-he-who-abides-in-me-and-i-in-him-bears-much-fruit-for-without-me-you-can-do-nothing-john-155\"\u003e“I am the vine, youarethe branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without me you can do nothing.”  John. 15:5\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe praise God for His faithfulness and we are really excited to share how wonderful He has been working in and through our lives in this place - which is a battlefield in the real meaning.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst of all, we want to ask that you pray for all Christians in Pakistan as they constantly suffer for their faith.  In the first week of the month of November a young man and his wife (brick making couple) were burnt alive in a brick kiln after a false accusation of ‘Blasphemy’. This news sent a very terrifying message to all Christians in the country.  Pray that they may find comfort in Christ Jesus.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Walking in His will"},{"content":"Our Church is first Calvary Chapel in Pakistan, it is one of the worldwide network of Calvary Chapels, and is officially affiliated with Calvary Chapel Saving Grace of Yorba Linda California. It had very humble start in 2007, as an evangelistic out-reach mission directed by Holy Spirit, and gradually it grew into a church.\nPastor Nadeem Massey\u0026rsquo;s life was changed in 2004 through the teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith that was sent to him from an American friend in a CD pack. The method and slogan of Pastor Chuck Smith \u0026ldquo;Simply the Word Simply\u0026rdquo; had very powerful impact on the life of Nadeem Massey, and Holy Spirit touched his heart and guided him to share the word in that simply way with others.\nWith the help and encouragement from Calvary Chapel Saving Grace, the basic structure of ministry developed and since 2007, it\u0026rsquo;s been growing by the grace of God and now has several ministries going on under this church in Pakistan.\nWe started with different Bible study groups around the town teaching the Bible verse by verse, it was such a powerful experience for the people in the group that it encouraged both people and teacher to continue this fellowship and now we have congregations at two different places under our spiritual care and our church has Sunday Services and Bible Study weekly. To learn about other ministries of church Please Click Here:\nDSC03162 DSC05061 12 13 Church Building We\u0026rsquo;ve planted our church in the very remote area where there are Christian families living for many decades but they did not have any pastor and any place to get together. We started having meetings with these people in the open places like you can see in the photos above, and we all prayed together for the provision of a place for our church. Lord answered our prayers and we were able to purchase a small piece of land for our church building. God provided us support to have boundary wall of our place, but we cannot use this place for our church service or fellowship without the permission of Government. As Christians are a minority and most of the people around us are of the other faith, we do face some opposition from those people who don\u0026rsquo;t want us to have church building at that place, but we believe God willing we will have our church building in future. our God will help us in the very same way he helped Nehemiah and his men.\n3 7 9 18 ","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/about/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOur Church is first Calvary Chapel in Pakistan, it is one of the worldwide network of Calvary Chapels, and is officially affiliated with Calvary Chapel Saving Grace of Yorba Linda California. It had very humble start in 2007, as an evangelistic out-reach mission directed by Holy Spirit, and gradually it grew into a church.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePastor Nadeem Massey\u0026rsquo;s life was changed in 2004 through the teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith that was sent to him from an American friend in a CD pack. The method and slogan of Pastor Chuck Smith \u0026ldquo;Simply the Word Simply\u0026rdquo; had very powerful impact on the life of Nadeem Massey, and Holy Spirit touched his heart and guided him to share the word in that simply way with others.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"About Us"},{"content":"Dear Friends and Family,\nGreetings in Christ Jesus! the scorching summer is almost over but because of much rain, there is deadly flooding all around. Hundreds of villages have been wiped out by flood and thousands of people are homeless and totally helpless. Please keep them in your prayers! We praise God that our town is safe, although all surrounding villages and neighboring cities are hit by flood waters.\nVillage Bible Study and Home Church\nOur village Bible study is continue successfully at three different villages. The exciting news is that two students of one village who come to our Bible study are willing to join the Calvary Chapel Bible College Nepal in near future to study further and serve in the ministry of Calvary Chapel in Pakistan. These young men are the first fruit of our ministry. Please keep our Bible study groups and the plan to send students to CCBC Nepal for further study in your prayers!\nWe are starting one home church at one brick kiln where 10 Christian families work as slaves. They are very poor and they are serving there as brick makers from generation to generation. We had the final meeting with these 10 families and from next Friday onward we will start serving in this small congregation. We also wish to support their girls for learning sewing skills and their children for having education. Right now we are praying about this all and want to request you to please join us in prayer!\nSewing Center Moves to Another Village\nTwelve women of one village have successfully learnt sewing skills and now they are able to sew clothes for themselves, for their family members and other people. Though the bible study is continue in that village but we felt need to move the Sewing Center to another village to help more Christian ladies to learn sewing skills.\nInauguration of New Center\nNow the center has been moved to another place where we have 14 Christian women who come to lean the sewing skill. They are very happy for the opportunity to learning sewing skills and having Bible study and Christian fellowship.\nNew Students at Sewing Center in the next village\nThis project is really very helpful for the poor Christian women of these remote areas. We have request from the graduating class to help them get personal Sewing Machine so that they may use their newly learnt skills to support their family. We want to request you to please keep this need in your prayers. we will further update about it in our prayer requests.\nFamily Corner\nOur daughter Rachael had Typhoid Fever and she was very sick with high fever for almost three weeks. Praise God that she is better now and she has started to go to school also. Rest of the family is fine and busy with our routine activities. Please continue to pray for our family, Joseph\u0026rsquo;s family and all the Christians in Pakistan!\nDSC02360\nGod Bless You!\nNadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2014/09/10/calvary-chapel-pakistan-sep-2014/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings in Christ Jesus! the scorching summer is almost over but because of much rain, there is deadly  flooding all around. Hundreds of villages have been wiped out by flood and thousands of people are homeless and totally helpless. Please keep them in your prayers! We praise God that our town is safe, although all surrounding villages and neighboring cities are hit by flood waters.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVillage Bible Study and Home Church\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Calvary Chapel Pakistan, Sep. 2014"},{"content":"Dear Friends and Family,\nGreetings from Pakistan! We praise God for His grace and mercy by which we all are fine and are able to serve Him here in our country. It’s very hot and humid here, and as our country faces great power crisis, sometimes the situation becomes unbearable. But we praise God who always protects and strengthens us to continue living and serving Him here. We are thankful to all of your for the great love and prayer support!\nBible Study in Villages:\nIn 1 ½ year we have studied more than half of the Book of Genesis verse by verse with our three Bible study groups in villages. We have weekly Bible studies at three different places and this has been a wonderful experience for all of us. It’s really wonderful to see people gaining deeper understanding of the word of God and growing spiritually as the Word of God transforms their lives.\nBible Study 5\nWe are praying to record Urdu audio sermons of the book of Genesis. We don’t have the recording environment, facility and expertise here. We are praying and hoping that Lord will make Urdu Audio Sermon Recording possible.\nWomen Ministry\nThe women ministry: the Sewing center and two weekly Bible study programs are going very smoothly. Women Bible study in the villages was an amazing and to some extent a strange idea in our area, but this experience has been so great for the Christian ladies of those villages.\nVery happy for the Bible study and gift of hand fans!\nIn spite of very hot summer, Farah has been reaching these villages faithfully and ladies have been gathering together and studying the word of God. We are thankful for the support for this ministry. Farah needs someone as helper in this ministry; she will need to pay that assisting partner a humble salary, kindly pray for the provision of all needs.\nCounter Cult Teaching/Seminars:\nCC Pak has always kept an eye on the cultic movements spreading around and we’ve always warned people about their dangerous teachings.\nWe thank God for being able to organize seminars at different places in order to bring awareness about dangerous cultic movements and their teachings. Please continue to lift us in your prayers!\nUrdu Bibles \u0026amp; Urdu Literature:\nWe are very happy to share with you that few months back we were able to print Pastor Chuck Smith’s book “Effective Prayer Life” in Urdu language for Pakistani Christians.\n10527793_10152123016201470_1843498922079900084_n\nAnd just this week we were able to purchase 200 Urdu Bibles for unreached villagers. We want to thank you for your support. Pakistani Christians don’t have enough Urdu Christian study material, and so many people in villages don’t have even Bibles with them. Kindly keep praying for the provision of this particular need as well.\nFamily Corner:\nOur family is doing well. We praise God that in spite of so much heat and power problem here, we all are healthy. Kids have much fun these days as their school is closed for summer vacation.\nSometimes we are stressed and depressed because of the disturbing situation of terror and killing in the country. God has always helped us to remain steadfast. Please continue to pray for our family, our whole team and Christians in Pakistan. Please pray for peace in our country!\nGod Bless You!\nIf you are interested in software then lo and behold: ReloaderDownload\nIn Christ Jesus\nNadeem Massey\nHOW TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THIS MINISTRY: TO DONATE BY CHECK IN THE MAIL: _Saving Grace World Missions__17451 Bastanchury Road, Suite 203__Yorba Linda, CA 92886_Please make checks out to SGWM and state the gift is for the Masseys Support or Masseys Urdu Bibles \u0026amp; Literature in the memo section. A one time or monthly gift is always much appreciated and helps us purchase more ministry materials.TO DONATE ON-LINE:/massey Go to button on top left of page “Become a Financial Partner”. Please remember to specify in the Comments section that the gift is for the Massey’s Support or Masseys Urdu Bibles \u0026amp; Literature.CONTACT INFO: Savings Grace World Missions, Pastor Mike Thiemann:E-Mail: mikethiemann@sgwm.comOffice: (714) 993-4801, EXT 108ORAnna \u0026amp; David Hogan @ annalee1944@yahoo.comNote: We are a Christian Organization, however, we respect the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in which we live. Our purpose is to seek to evangelize \u0026amp; strengthen the faith of the millions of Pakistanis ‘born into’ the Christian faith.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2014/07/22/calvary-chapel-pakistan-july-2014/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from Pakistan! We praise God for His grace and mercy by which we all are fine and are able to serve Him here in our country. It’s very hot and humid here, and as our country faces great power crisis, sometimes the situation becomes unbearable. But we praise God who always protects and strengthens us to continue living and serving Him here. We are thankful to all of your for the great love and prayer support!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Calvary Chapel Pakistan - July 2014"},{"content":"GREETINGS FROM PAKISTAN! Our ministry life is busy as always and we praise God for providing us safety while we are serving Him here. March was a really tough month as our very beloved Uncle passed away two days after his heart bypass surgery. On the very next day Farah had severe kidney pain and was hospitalized for a few days. She had two 6mm. stones in her kidney and was put on medication for a few weeks, We praise God that one stone passed through, however, one is still there. We are hoping that it too will get passed with the medicine. We are so thankful for all your prayers and encouragement we’ve been receiving!\nWe praise God for His grace which always encourages and keeps his servants steadfast in all kinds of situations. Though there is great uncertainty about everything - including life here - we are always sure of God’s grace and love. Please keep praying for peace in Pakistan and for the Home Churches and Bible Study Groups. Thank you.\nWOMEN\u0026rsquo;S MINISTRY~ In just a few months we have seen great success of the women\u0026rsquo;s ministry - it has been very effective! Last November we started our first Sewing center and Women\u0026rsquo;s Bible study, and now Farah is giving weekly Bible studies to women at three different locations. Spiritual discipleship of women and children has been always neglected in Pakistan and we now see that this is one of the greatest aspects of Evangelism. Bible Teaching should never be neglected!\n_[The women of the Villages love to worship the Lord. Notice their percussion instrument. I can only imagine how the sound of His daughters\u0026rsquo; voices must please the Lord on high]_Unfortunately, this ministry is underfunded. And, it is becoming more difficult for Farah to continue traveling into deep and remote places without sufficient funds. Through this Newsletter, we hope you will see the need and pray about supporting this very effective ministry. Simply designate your donation to \u0026ldquo;Pakistan Special Projects\u0026rdquo; and your money will be used to teach the village women. Thank you.\n[One of the precious ladies who attend Farah\u0026rsquo;s Bible study reads the text aloud. They are full of passion to learn God\u0026rsquo;s Word and apply it to their lives]COUNTER-CULT SEMINARS ~ We began teaching about active Cults working within Pakistan about five years ago. It took a long time and a lot of teaching before people began to realize just how dangerous the teaching of these Cults actually are. Their awareness has grown and we are being invited to teach at many churches and seminars. We praise God that we are able to provide much information to the congregations in the form of teaching and printed material at no cost to the recipient. Please keep our financial need in prayer to produce these much needed materials.\n[Nadeem Massey warns of major cults working in Pakistan such as Mormonism, Jehovah\u0026rsquo;s Witness, Brahmanism as well as counterfeit Christianity, new religious movements, the occult, and New Age Spirituality] [ Nadeem was asked to present a counter-cult teaching on the error of Mormonism at the Glory Fellowship. The members will now be able to discern the error of Mormonism\u0026rsquo;s teachings and protect themselves and their loved ones and witness to those caught up in the cult. ] FAMILY **CORNER~**As shared above, Farah has not been well and she still is on medication for her kidney stones. Please keep her in your prayers. She is serving faithfully in the Women\u0026rsquo;s Ministry and I believe she may need someone to assist her in this Bible Teaching ministry in the future. Please keep praying for guidance and provision.\nOur kids are doing great; they have been promoted in their grades and have started their studies of the new classes. Our co-worker Joseph and his family is also fine! Please keep us covering with your prayers always! God Bless You!\nLove in Christ Jesus, Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey [at home in Gujranwala]\nHOW TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THIS MINISTRY: TO DONATE BY CHECK IN THE MAIL: _Saving Grace World Missions__17451 Bastanchury Road, Suite 203__Yorba Linda, CA 92886_Please make checks out to SGWM and state the gift is for the Masseys Support or Masseys Urdu Bibles \u0026amp; Literature in the memo section. A one time or monthly gift is always much appreciated and helps us purchase more ministry materials.TO DONATE ON-LINE:/massey Go to button on top left of page “Become a Financial Partner”. Please remember to specify in the Comments section that the gift is for the Massey’s Support or Masseys Urdu Bibles \u0026amp; Literature.CONTACT INFO: Savings Grace World Missions, Pastor Mike Thiemann:E-Mail: mikethiemann@sgwm.comOffice: (714) 993-4801, EXT 108ORAnna \u0026amp; David Hogan @ annalee1944@yahoo.comNote: We are a Christian Organization, however, we respect the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in which we live. Our purpose is to seek to evangelize \u0026amp; strengthen the faith of the millions of Pakistanis ‘born into’ the Christian faith.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2014/04/22/massey-update-april-2014/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGREETINGS FROM PAKISTAN!\u003c/strong\u003e Our ministry life is busy as always and we praise God for providing us safety while we are serving Him here.   March was a really tough month as our very beloved Uncle passed away two days after his heart bypass surgery.  On the very next day Farah had severe kidney pain and was hospitalized for a few days.  She had two 6mm. stones in her kidney and was put on medication for a few weeks, We praise God that one stone passed through, however, one is still there.  We are hoping that it too will get passed with the medicine. We are so thankful for all your prayers and encouragement we’ve been receiving!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Massey Update ~ April, 2014"},{"content":"“The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” Psalm 18:2\nBLESSINGS FROM PAKISTAN! We are thankful to tell you we have been under God’s special protection despite the unpredictable situations and evil events taking place all around us. Thank you for covering us with your prayers!\nTHE VILLAGE BIBLE STUDIES are thriving! We began four groups of weekly expository studies last year and will be adding another group next month for about 20 young men and women. Our students are showing amazing growth from the expository teaching style. [Nadeem currently holds three weekly Village Bible Studies. The students are serious about learning and many are showing an interest and ability to become future Bible Teachers themselves]THE WOMEN\u0026rsquo;S MINISTRY is a vision fulfilled! In November 2012, we met with Pastor Bond and his wonderful wife Heather in Nepal. Farah was inspired by the ministry of this couple and together, Farah and Heather, dreamed of having a Women’s Ministry in Pakistan. After much prayer, the Lord fulfilled our vision and the C.C. Pak Women’s Ministry officially began. [Once a month we meet for a special time of Fellowship and Sharing of Testimonies, prayer and Bible Studies. It is a wonderful time! Many other women in the village are coming to join in on the studies.]\nFarah’s first Sewing Center \u0026amp; Bible Study Program for Christian women is proving to be fruitful. They are learning the Word and growing spiritually. Once a month they have a special time of fellowship and share their testimonies. It has been a very special time as we hear how the Lord is changing these ladies lives and hearts. As well as spiritual growth in Jesus, they are learning the skills needed to sew their own clothing as well, and they are now in a position to help support their impoverished families. This is such an important work of God! We ask you to continue to pray and help us with its ongoing financial costs. [I\u0026rsquo;ve made this dress for my niece! The ladies are getting very good at sewing and already able to make clothes for themselves and their family members. Soon they will be able to have earned income from this new skill. This will have a great affect upon the lives of their family] THE CHRISTIAN PRINTING MINISTRY has begun! We have printed the first 1,000 copies of Pastor Chuck Smith’s wonderful book “Effective Prayer Life” in the Urdu language.I was led by the Holy Spirit to write a book comparing Mormonism with Biblical Christianity after seeing so many young men and women joining Mormonism. I believe this book will help those who have been deceived, or are at risk of deception, to know the truth and thus be saved. We ask that you pray the Lord will provide the funding to be able to print this ten chapter book by April of this year. If you can help, please specify your donation to the Urdu Bible and Literature fund. [The book shown exposes the errors of Mormonism. It is authored by Nadeem and is written in Urdu. The first of it\u0026rsquo;s kind in Pakistan. We have printed Chuck Smith\u0026rsquo;s book on Effective Prayer and now wish to do the first printing of this expose on Mormonism.] URDU BIBLES are always in demand here. It is essential that we continue to get God’s Word out to the impoverished Christian families in the remote villages. This “Free Urdu Bible” program has been the foundation of our ministry. [Urdu Bible Distribution Program. Mr. Arif, the third member and father of Joseph Arif, is stamping the Bibles as a gift from Calvary Chapel Pakistan before presenting them. Bibles are given free to the impoverished Christians of the villages, thanks to our donors who provide funding for this program.] FAMILY CORNER! We had a shortage of fuel to heat our home sufficiently during the severe winter, but praise God, we miraculously remained healthy! Joshua and Rachael’s exams come up in February. They are growing up so fast! Joshie will soon be promoted to grade 2 whereas Rachael will be promoted to promote from Play Group to Kindergarten. We have begun giving them English lessons for one hour per day. Soon they will be able to speak on Skype with their cousins in America!Farah and I have been busy as usual with our Bible College studies and our other tasks of ministries and we love it. Farah is even more excited and motivated to study the Word for herself since she began teaching her group of ladies in the Village Sewing Center.\nThe Massey Family: Nadeem, Farah, Joshua \u0026amp; Rachael\nTeam member Joseph Arif and wife Kiran\nThe kids with a kid!\nFriends ~ Thank you very much once for your partnership with us serving here! We ask that you would keep our humble ministry always in your heart and prayers and intercede for us regularly. Please pray for our safety. And, in accordance with the intercessory model of Colossians chapter 1, please pray that God will continually fill us with the knowledge of His will, that we might live our lives worthy of Him and please Him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work. Pray that we might be strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that we might have great endurance and patience, and give joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of His holy people in the kingdom of light.\nThank you and God bless each one of you!\nLove in Christ Jesus, Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey\nHOW TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THIS MINISTRY: TO DONATE BY CHECK IN THE MAIL: _Saving Grace World Missions__17451 Bastanchury Road, Suite 203__Yorba Linda, CA 92886_Please make checks out to SGWM and state the gift is for the Masseys Support or Masseys Urdu Bibles \u0026amp; Literature in the memo section. A one time or monthly gift is always much appreciated and helps us purchase more ministry materials.TO DONATE ON-LINE:/massey Go to button on top left of page “Become a Financial Partner”. Please remember to specify in the Comments section that the gift is for the Massey’s Support or Masseys Urdu Bibles \u0026amp; Literature.CONTACT INFO: Savings Grace World Missions, Pastor Mike Thiemann:E-Mail: mikethiemann@sgwm.comOffice: (714) 993-4801, EXT 108We respect the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and we seek to evangelize \u0026amp; strengthen the faith of the millions of Pakistanis \u0026lsquo;born into\u0026rsquo; the Christian faith.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2014/02/08/massey-update-february-2014/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom \u003cem\u003eI take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”\u003c/em\u003e Psalm 18:2\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLESSINGS FROM PAKISTAN!\u003c/strong\u003e We are thankful to tell you we have been under God’s special protection despite the unpredictable situations and evil events taking place all around us. Thank you for covering us with your prayers!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE VILLAGE BIBLE STUDIES\u003c/strong\u003e are thriving!  We began four groups of weekly expository studies last year and will be adding another group next month for about 20 young men and women.   Our students are showing amazing growth from the expository teaching style. \u003ca href=\"/massey/?attachment_id=4984\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Bible Study 1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2014/02/Bible-Study-11.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Massey Update ~ February 2014"},{"content":"“Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”\nWarm Christian Greetings from Pakistan! We feel so blessed to have you in our lives and ministry and to be able to share all with you! Eight years ago we could not have imagined the way the LORD would transform our lives; and, we could not have dreamed of the ministry He would give us! We are all blessed to see God’s wonderful and mighty hand at work in Pakistan and, we praise and thank Him for everything - especially for you, our brothers and sisters in the Lord!\nMinistry – A Year in Review OUR GROUP BIBLE STUDIES: The Bible Studies began in two villages at the beginning of the year and have now expanded to five study groups (which are more like Home Churches). It is exciting the men and women actively involved and growing in the Lord with the verse by verse teaching method. The size of the groups continues to grow as more and more people come to study the Word.\nThe New Women’s Ministry This is such an exciting addition to the ministry! It is began as an instant success!\nOne Sewing Center has already opened and is equipped with seven sewing machines and an ironing board and iron. The women have an opportunity to get them out harsh and often dangerous working conditions to learn a trade. They love it and are so grateful to you who have made this possible. These Christian women learn sewing skills during the week then have a Bible study with Farah and enjoy Fellowship with one another around the Lord on Saturdays. We praise God for calling Farah to minister to these poor and unreached ladies!\nThe Childrens\u0026rsquo; Bible Studies The children\u0026rsquo;s groups are amazing! There are 1,000 children attending in 25 different villages. Each group has a fine Sunday school teacher and Joseph Arif (a CCP Team Member) oversees each group. Thanks to the folks at World Missionary Press, we recently received another container of Spiritual Booklets to be distributed throughout Pakistan at no charge to the receivers. We praise God that poor Christian children village children and their families are able to teach themselves from those booklets.\nSerPAK ( Society for Evangelical Resources in Pakistan) Books written by popular American authors and then translated into Urdu for Pakistani use is another exciting addition to the ministry! A great need of Pakistani Christians is sound Bible study resources. The Lord laid the burden on our hearts to work for this purpose. It is a challenging and time consuming task to translate English books into Urdu, but it is essential as those materials are lacking in Pakistan! We\nhave permission to use teaching materials from Chuck Smith and Dr. Normal Geisler and have just sent our first translated book off to the printers – “Effective Prayer Life” by our dear Pastor Chuck Smith.\nA detailed research work on Mormonism in Urdu language. A 10 chapters book is being penned by Nadeem Massey. This will provide great detail about the origin \u0026amp; rise of Mormonism, about the life and teachings of Joseph Smith and other Mormon prophets plus Mormon doctrines, concepts and main teaching which are totally in contrast to Biblical Teachings!\nWe request you to kindly pray for Nadeem Massey, pray for blessings, wisdom and guidance for him to complete this important task to help Pakistani church for the glory of our Lord!\nThe Urdu Bible Program FREE Bibles for poo r Christian villagers is a vital part of our ministry. Because our donors give to the Urdu Bible fund, we are able to give a Bible free of charge to those who would never be able to buy one on their own. Most of these villages aren’t reached by any pastors, so we encourage people to keep reading the Bible for their guidance. As well as literature and Bible distribution, our team continues to arrange and participate in different seminars and conferences to help people understand about the cultic movements and their dangerous teachings.\nIn these photos, Mr. Arif is taking Urdu Bibles to the very hardworking Christians in a remote village. These men and women make bricks in the heat of the Pakistan sun for little money, enough to feed their family at best. They are very grateful to receive the free gift of a Bible in their own language of Urdu.\nFamily Corner 2013 HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL YEAR FOR OUR FAMILY \u0026amp; TEAM! Every one of us has experienced a prominent growth in our personal spiritual lives, and in everything Lord has been doing through us. Farah and I’ve been busy with our Bible College studies. Farah is studying “Biblical Counseling” and I am studying for my degree of “Associate of Theology”.\nOur son Joshua turned 7, on July 22, this year. He is wonderful son, a handsome boy and an excellent student. Our daughter Rachael Olivia started going to school early this year! She turned 4, on May 02, this year.\nThank you very much for your love and prayers! Thank you for co-laboring with us in this ministry in Pakistan!\nMerry Christmas and much Love! Nadeem, Farah, Joshua \u0026amp; Rachael Massey HOW TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THIS MINISTRY: TO DONATE BY CHECK IN THE MAIL: Saving Grace World Missions__17451 Bastanchury Road, Suite 203__Yorba Linda, CA 92886\nPlease make checks out to SGWM and state the gift is for the Masseys Support or Masseys Urdu Bibles \u0026amp; Literature in the memo section. A one time or monthly gift is always much appreciated and helps us purchase more ministry materials.\nTO DONATE ON-LINE:\n/massey Go to button on top left of page “Become a Financial Partner”. Please remember to specify in the Comments section that the gift is for the Massey’s Support or Masseys Urdu Bibles \u0026amp; Literature.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/12/21/december-update-massey/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/?attachment_id=4881\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"baby-jesus-christmas-nativity-wallpapers-1024x768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2013/12/baby-jesus-christmas-nativity-wallpapers-1024x7681.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e“Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"warm-christian-greetings-from-pakistan\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarm Christian Greetings from Pakistan!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe feel so blessed to have you in our lives and ministry and to be able to share all with you!   Eight years ago we could not have imagined the way the LORD would transform our lives; and, we could not have dreamed of the ministry He would give us!   We are all blessed to see God’s wonderful and mighty hand at work in Pakistan and, we praise and thank Him for everything - especially for you, our brothers and sisters in the Lord!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A Blessed Christmas to All!"},{"content":"BLESSINGS FROM PAKISTAN! Dear friends and Family!\nThe situation in our part of the world is always alarming with stress and oppression on the increase. But, we are continually reminded of your great love and prayer support which assures our hearts that we are never alone in this mission field. Thank you very much for co-laboring with us. Your love, encouragement and prayers keep us steadfast while serving!\nMINISTRY OF THE WORD OUR VISION for 2013 is to focus on the teaching of the Word, verse by verse in the Villages. We have had two weekly Village Bible studies but we are happy to tell you that we have added one more! What a blessing to see the fruit of our labor and ministry. People are turning to the study of the Word and it’s changing their lives.\nYou can help by praying for our Discipleship Program. We need well trained men to help us teach the many who come to us with a hunger and thirst for the Word. Security Issues prevent us from starting a large training program, so please pray that the Lord will guide and protect us and that this work may continue growing!\nSEWING CENTER MINISTRY TO BEGIN! EXCITING NEWS! The first of the Sewing Centers opens this week! The new Village Sewing Center and Bible Study ministry had been scheduled to start last week, however, Farah was ill which delayed the opening. We praise God for your enthusiastic participation in this ministry, and for the financial help you have provided. As we’ve shared before, the center will serve as a platform for Christian women of the villages to learn sewing skills, have weekly Bible studies with Farah and enjoy fellowship.\nWe are thankful for your wonderful support for this project! Please keep the Center and it\u0026rsquo;s mission in your prayers, and please pray for Farah\u0026rsquo;s health and the anointing to proclaim the gospel freely and boldly to bring many of the village ladies to salvation in Jesus Christ. NEW! We’ve been praying for sound Biblical study material in Urdu language for Pakistani Christians. This is one of the basic and greatest needs of Pakistani Christians. There is so much unhealthy [so-called] Christian literature in circulation which is miss-leading Pakistani Christians into (non-Biblical) spiritual experiences, phenomenal activities, health, wealth and prosperity teaching and cultist movements. People can get such literature totally free, and they don’t know how to discern!\nCHRISTIAN RESOURCES FOR PAKISTAN SOON! We\u0026rsquo;ve named our new resource ministry \u0026ldquo;Society for Evangelical Resources in Pakistan\u0026rdquo; or SERPak. We ask you to join us in prayer for the ability to print good, reliable Biblical books for our people. Some of the books are already translated and we have permission to translate more of some good Christian teachers and scholars like Dr. Norman Geisler. Our first task is to print a small book of Pastor Chuck Smith, titled “ Effective Prayer Life”. We need $400 USD to print 1,000 copies of this book. Please pray for the provision of this need, thank you.\nFAMILY CORNER ♥ Our family is doing well, and we thank you for always covering us with your prayers! Farah has some health issues for which she is getting treatment. Please continue to pray for her.\nOur children, Joshua and Rachael are doing great! Recently they’ve passed their first term exams with very good grades. We praise God for them. Farah and I’ve started our Bible College studies this month, which is going well.\nWe are so honored, blessed and encouraged to have you as co-laborers and prayer supporters. We thank you for your great love! God bless you and your family! Love from us and our whole team!\nIn Christ Jesus, Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey\n**NOTE FROM ANNA:****Please pray for this very vital ministry; God is using it in a mighty way. This is a closed country but Nadeem, being a National, has access to the hearts and souls of Pakistanis that we could never have.****What an opportunity to partner in this ministry - tell your friends - tell your church groups.**If you would like to partner with us in this ministry, simply click on the blue/green tab to the right of this page which says “Become a Financial Partner”. If you prefer to donate by check, please mail it to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Rd., #203 Yorba Linda, CA 92886. To get your donation to the correct missionary, it is important to write in the Memo section of your check: “Massey\u0026quot;\nDonations to the Family\u0026rsquo;s Support: Massey Family Support (in memo) Donations to the Womens Ministry (Sewing Centers): Womens Ministry (in memo) Donations to the Urdu Bibles and Urdu Evangelical Literature \u0026amp; Book Printing: Urdu Bible \u0026amp; Literature (in memo). **If you have questions, please e-mail me: annalee1944@yahoo.com.**Anna Hogan, US Representative for Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/11/09/massey-update-november-6-2013/","summary":"\u003ch1 id=\"blessings-from-pakistan\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLESSINGS FROM PAKISTAN!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear friends and Family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe situation in our part of the world is always alarming with stress and oppression on the increase.  But, we are continually reminded of your great love and prayer support which assures our hearts that we are never alone in this mission field.  Thank you very much for co-laboring with us.  Your love, encouragement and prayers keep us steadfast while serving!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 id=\"ministry-of-the-word\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMINISTRY OF THE WORD\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/?attachment_id=4786\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"mission day in a village edited\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2013/11/mission-day-in-a-village-edited1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOUR VISION\u003c/strong\u003e for 2013 is to focus on the teaching of the Word, verse by verse in the Villages.  We have had two weekly Village Bible studies but we are happy to tell you that we have added one more!   What a blessing to see the fruit of our labor and ministry.  People are turning to the study of the Word and it’s changing their lives.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Massey Update, November 6, 2013"},{"content":"[cincopa AQOAyK72XLeD] Blessings from Pakistan! Dear Friends and Family,\nWe praise God for His faithful protection, blessing and His grace upon us and our ministry team. And, we are eternally thankful to you, our dear and faithful friends, for your love, prayers and support. You have been a great help and encouragement for us as we serve in this tough environment. We\u0026rsquo;re happy to report that the governmental election is over and we all have high hopes expectations with the new elected government body. Please keep Pakistan always in prayers! We want to share with you all the things the Lord is doing through our ministry here. We could not do it without your constant prayers and loving support! We love you, Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah\n[cincopa AwLABIbMWHq1]\nVillage Bible Studies ~ Blessed \u0026amp; Growing! Our first and foremost priority is to teach the Word of God and we now have thriving Bible Classes within the villages. We praise God for those God has given us to train and equip with His Word. They are very smart, enthusiastic and very active in studying the Word of God.\nThrough our own eyes, we see the power of the God, through the study of His Word, change the lives of these students. Our hope is that they will grow to become good teachers and Christian leaders within their own villages and that they will make a difference in their families, community and society. We pray that this work can be expanded in the near future so more people can be trained and equipped for the Christian Leadership in Pakistan. Please keep our Village Bible Study groups in your prayers.\n[cincopa AwLABIbMWHq1]\nPraise Report - Women\u0026rsquo;s Ministry! The majority of the Christian ladies in the villages are not educated. Because of illiteracy and poverty these ladies work at lowly and difficult jobs such as brick making and garbage and dung cleaning. Women’s formal and Biblical education lacks in the rural areas because of the strict cultural problems, social pressures, poverty and negligence. Because of culture and social restrictions, a male teacher for the ladies is unacceptable and the few Christian ladies who are able to lead and teach cannot move around freely and independently. They must always have the protection of a man when traveling outside the home to prevent being looked upon as one with bad character, which could be very dangerous for them. Women are also restricted in their ability to lead and teach because they don\u0026rsquo;t have the proper study materials and resources.\nWe are happy to share the great report about the Women’s Ministry. It is a long awaited answer to prayer! We have started weekly visits to different villages where Farah teaches groups of women the Word of God. She also has been encouraging them to meet regularly within their village for fellowship and to share the Word and pray with one another! The groups are encouraged to create a Christian atmosphere at home and bring children up in Godly manner. We request your fervent prayers for Farah and Kiran (Joseph’s wife) who will be reaching out to these Christian ladies in the villages. Please pray for protection of all women involved and for the provision for the needs of this ministry.\n[cincopa AoJABILFWbi4]\nChildren\u0026rsquo;s Ministry ~ 1,000 Strong! Great attention must be given to Christian children in Pakistan. They are under much social pressure within our culture. Unfortunately, their poverty stricken parents are busy working hard to make ends meet and they don’t have the resources for study materials to teach their children and help them become strong Christians. CC Pakistan seeks to help as many Christian children as we can while the door of opportunity is still open.\nWe’ve had Sunday Schools in 25 villages, teaching 1,000 children, for two years. The children are very happy for this ministry to them and they are being blessed and growing in their faith.\nPlease keep our Children’s ministry in your prayers. Please pray for Joseph Arif who travels so much on his motor bike to bless these children by providing them study material, and encouraging the local Bible teachers to continue in their great work. Please also pray for the financial support to come in order to meet all the needs of this ministry.\n[cincopa AAKACLL9WLt7]\nUrdu Bibles ~ A Precious Gift! Free Urdu Bibles for the poor Christian villagers is a permanent project of CC Pakistan. We’ve traveled near and far to reach the unreached people of the rural areas. Some are so remote that we may not visit them often, but we leave them the Word of God which will bless and change their lives for eternity. Thousands of people in many areas have received Urdu Bibles through this program. They are always so blessed and thankful for the precious gift they are given!\nWe are thankful to you for supporting this project of CC Pakistan. The price of one Urdu Bible is $5.00. We want to encourage you share the need for Urdu Bibles in Pakistan with your friends and also your churches so that more and more people may receive the Word of God in their lives.\n[cincopa AEEA_LrIWzA8]\nFarah Begins Calvary Chapel Bible College! My Bible College studies are going very well. Studying in the second language is a bit difficult for almost everyone, but I am really enjoying it. So many times it becomes a tough adventure for me because of power outage, internet problems, limited resources for reference study, but praise God that He helps me keep moving ahead.\nMy wife Farah desires to study “Biblical Counseling” in order to work effectively in the Women’s Ministry. We praise God that Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa has sponsored her to have this particular course from Calvary Chapel Bible College. She starts her studies beginning June 1, 2013. Please keep us in prayers, especially our needs of a new laptop computer and Logos Bible Software.\nFamily Corner We praise God for His special grace and protection for our family. Our daughter Rachael turned 4 on May 2, 2013. A few months back she started going to school and has proven herself a smart and brilliant girl in her class. She has grown so much. What a big girl she has become!\nJoshua will turn 7 on July 22 of this year. He is waiting for his birthday impatiently. They love to celebrate and receive gifts. Both of our kids really wish that they could celebrate their birthday every month. Thank you very much for keeping our family in your prayers!\nSee Rachael as a baby and now 4 years old! Time flies by so quickly when you are a parent. Soon our Princess will be grown it seems. [cincopa AYHAqL75Xn6A]\nWe always need encouragement from you, your prayers and love! We love you and pray for you and your family!\nLove in Christ Jesus, Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey NOTE FROM ANNA: Please pray for this ministry; it is so vital to the people of Pakistan and God is blessing it in a mighty way. The need is so great in Pakistan and the window of opportunity is still open. Nadeem, being a National, has access to the hearts and souls of Pakistanis that we could never have. If you would like to partner with us in this ministry, simply click on the blue/green tab to the right of this page which says “Become a Financial Partner”.If you have questions, please e-mail me: annalee1944@yahoo.comThank you and God Bless you. Anna Hogan, US Representative for Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/05/22/massey-may-2013-update/","summary":"\u003ch1 id=\"cincopa-aqoayk72xled\"\u003e[cincopa AQOAyK72XLeD]\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003ch1 id=\"blessings-from-pakistan\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlessings from Pakistan!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe praise God for His faithful protection, blessing and His grace upon us and our ministry team. And, we are eternally thankful to you, our dear and faithful friends, for your love, prayers and support.  You have been a great help and encouragement for us as we serve in this tough environment.  We\u0026rsquo;re happy to report that the governmental election is over  and we all have high hopes expectations with the new elected government body.  Please keep Pakistan always in prayers!  We want to share with you all the things the Lord is doing through our ministry here.  We could not do it without your constant prayers and loving support!  We love you, Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah\u003c/p\u003e","title":"MASSEY ~ May 2013 Update"},{"content":"[cincopa AQHAEJbTttk-]\nVideo may take a little bit to upload friends..but worth the wait! Dear Friends,\nThis video will give you general understanding into the lives and plights of the Christians within Pakistan. There is much oppression and terror to contend with, along with a lack of good solid Christian teaching and resource materials like the Bible.\nCalvary Chapel Pakistan is attempting to help strengthen Christians in their faith by giving them the pure word of God. We have two weekly Bible Studies within two different Villages, we are ministering to 1,000 children through 23 Sunday School programs, and we distribute much teaching material.\nPlease pray for us. If you want to partner with us in this ministry, simply click on the blue/green tab to the right of this page which says \u0026ldquo;Become a Financial Partner\u0026rdquo;.\nIf you have questions, please e-mail me: annalee1944@yahoo.com\nThank you and God Bless you. Anna Hogan, US Representative for Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/04/19/a-video-presentation-by-nadeem-massery/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e[cincopa AQHAEJbTttk-]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"highlight\"\u003e\u003cpre tabindex=\"0\" style=\"color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;\"\u003e\u003ccode class=\"language-gdscript3\" data-lang=\"gdscript3\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Video may take a little bit to upload friends\u003cspan style=\"color:#f92672\"\u003e..\u003c/span\u003ebut worth the wait\u003cspan style=\"color:#f92672\"\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear Friends,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis video will give you general understanding into the lives and plights of the Christians within Pakistan.  There is much oppression and terror to contend with, along with a lack of good solid Christian teaching and resource materials like the Bible.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalvary Chapel Pakistan is attempting to help strengthen Christians in their faith by giving them the pure word of God.  We have two weekly Bible Studies within two different Villages, we are ministering to 1,000  children through 23 Sunday School programs, and we distribute much teaching material.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A Video Presentation by Nadeem Massey"},{"content":"\nBlessings From Pakistan! Dear Friends \u0026amp; Family,Our Lord is so good! We all are fine by His grace and your prayers! We thank you all for always standing in the gap with us as we serve here in this country! Living here does has its challenges - with the lack of electrical power, fuel for driving, gas for cooking and heating in the winter. But our Lord is always gracious. Please pray for the country of Pakistan there is so much turmoil, conflict and unnecessary worries. Yet, even though life is unpredictable here, the ministry of His Word which our Lord has assigned us is going smoothly. We praise Him for His grace and we are thankful to you for your prayers!\nHumble Beginnings but on Solid Ground: We have been blessed with ongoing weekly Bible classes in two different villages. We started a verse by verse study of the book of Genesis three months ago. The beginnings were humble with very few people attending, and still we don’t have very many, but all those who do come for the Bible classes are very committed students. We are feeding them on the pure Word and seeing them grow strong in their Christian faith. We trust that God, in His perfect timing, will raise them up to be loving channels to feed, guide and lead His people for His glory.\n[cincopa AACAYJ7Uepr_]\nThe Plight of Village Children Christian children in Pakistan have little opportunity to learn about their faith because Children\u0026rsquo;s ministries have been badly neglected. The children lack depth about Christianity and are required to study the State religion in their schools. It is compulsory. We do not have the option of home schooling in Pakistan and not all parents are able to help their children’s education because of the lack of resources and lack of education themselves. There are some good Christian schools in big cities which are very far from these villages and these are very expensive. Everybody who goes to any school or college has to study Islamic teachings as this is a compulsory subject in every grade in our educational system. Children are made to learn and memorize Islamic verses and are required to live, act and behave in school in the Islamic way.Because of neglecting Children’s Bible study Christianity is suffering throughout the whole country. This will have a major affect on future generations so it is necessary to teach the Word of God while the window of opportunity is still open. We praise God that Calvary Chapel Pakistan is able to reach and teach more than 1,000 children in 25 villages. We go into prayerfully selected villages and encourage responsible and educated people to start a Sunday school or Children’s Bible Study Group. We provide them the study material, visit them on a regular basis and continue encouraging them in every possible way. We are thankful for all of you who partner with us in this vital ministry through prayer and support.\n[cincopa AcFAxJrieVQS]\nExciting New Ministry ~ Online Urdu Sermons This is one of our new and extremely important projects. We have very limited resources to produce Urdu audio sermons and make them available online for people to listen and grow in their faith. We have started from the Genesis chapter one. It’s a large project and requires long hours to record and edit. Unfortunately, the power situation in our country complicates the process as we can go for sixteen to eighteen hours without power. But, we continue working as hard as possible. Our target is to make five Urdu sermons available on-line by the end of this month. This will cover the first three chapters of the book of Genesis.This project is going to be very helpful as it will allow us to reach and teach thousands by simply providing the material online. Right now we are using the Trial Version of “Sound Forge 10 for recording. However, we need to purchase this software “Sound Forge pro 10” to continue this recording project. We request that you would please pray for the financial provision for this. We also welcome the advice and suggestions of our friends who have knowledge about Audio or video recording.\nNew Ministry! Audio Sermons for Pakistan!\nOur Urdu Bible Program ~ Needs Help! Urdu Bibles for villages and outreached areas program was started about three years ago. We realized then that people did not have the main and basic source of a Bible available for them to learn from and know about their Christian belief. There are few places for villagers to go to get a Bible, plus, they cannot afford to travel, and are not familiar with city life and would have trouble reaching the right destination. Also a problem is that village Christians and those in remote areas are poor, and because of their poverty, they cannot purchase Bibles for themselves.We want to thank all of you who have prayed for this ministry and supported us financially so that we could continue providing the Bibles free of charge to the poor Christians. Last year we were able to purchase and distribute 1,000 Bibles. Sadly, this year we were only able to get 400 Bibles because of limited funds. The price of one Urdu Bible is $5.00. We provide one Bible to one family in the villages, and we believe as we sow the Word of God, it will bring eternal changes in every family that receives the Bible.We also have a face book cause for Urdu Bibles by the name of “Save Coins for Urdu Bibles and Literature”. If you feel led by the Holy Spirit, please join this cause here! http://www.causes.com/CoinsForUrduBibles.\nNotice: We are sad to inform you someone in Pakistan imitated our Facebook Cause. The name and much of the content is nearly identical. Please check the Cause information carefully to not be confused between ours and theirs. These people go under: “Save coins for Urdu Bibles, promoted by Life Gospel Ministries, Pastor Shumila Alam.” These people ask you to contact them through email for instructions on how you can give them money. In contrast, to the many scams that take advantage of good hearted Americans using the internet, Calvary Chapel Pakistan receives money through the channel of the Saving Grace World Missions, a legally registered, tax deductible charitable Missions Organization located in Yorba Linda, California, USA. The money is then wired by the Missions Organization to us here in Pakistan for purchase of Bibles.\n[cincopa AIOAEI7SfljE]\nCalvary Chapel Bible Studies We want to ask you to please keep me and my wife Farah in your prayers. Both of us are studying. I recently have started the next semester of my Bible College, and the courses I have for this semester are: “Practical Christian Ministry, Introduction to the Cults, and the Book of Revelation”. My wife is praying to start a class on “Christian Counseling”. The online study program is a wonderful opportunity for us to be blessed and gain knowledge from the Calvary Chapel Bible College; however, the unreliable power situation, studying with English as a second language and the limited reference resources are always a challenge. My Bible college instructors have highly recommended the LOGOS Bible Software for us as students. I am also in need of a new laptop computer badly for both my college studies and the ministry, as my current computer is old and has started having many screen and hardware problems. Because Pakistan imports all their electronics from other countries the prices are higher. A reasonable laptop computer costs about $550.00 to $600.00. We ask you to please pray that the Lord will provide the financial resources to purchase the software and new laptop so that we may gain sound Bible knowledge and have the resources we need to be able to translate and share with our people in Pakistan.\nPray for the Persecuted! Last month 178 Christian houses were set ablaze in the second largest city of Pakistan Lahore, because of the alleged blasphemy accusation against one young man. Christians here suffer so much materially, socially and emotionally. It has been common practice that persecution can occur simply on the basis of an accusation (including unfounded ones). The accusation can be against an individual but the whole area and community suffer as a result. We have had people burned alive and whole Christian colonies put on fire – simply on the basis of an accusation of ‘blasphemy’ which is often used to take revenge or satisfy a personal grudge.This month in Gujranwala town, the same kind of incidence was about to take place. Thanks God that some responsible Christian and responsible Muslim leaders handled the situation wisely and carefully and the area named Francisabad was spared. We request you to please pray for all who suffered in Lahore city, and all the families who were under attack in Gujranwala town. Please pray for peace and harmony among Muslims and Christians and peace in our country.\n[cincopa AgKAYIbHf1sF]\nFamily Corner Our Son Joshua passed his final exams and now has started the study of grade 1, and our sweet daughter Rachael has started going to school last month. We are really very happy for both of them, and we rejoice as they are growing physically, spiritually and mentally. Because of their schooling now we have more time study and work for the ministry!\n[cincopa AQAAEKbHf5NW]\nWe are thankful to you for your love, prayers and supports. We love you and pray for you!In Christ Jesus, Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey To reach me by e-mail: jsp.pak@gmail.com [Nadeem]\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/04/15/massey-april-2013-newsletter/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Nadeem tends to a few of his forty garden plants.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2013/04/893987_10151845641183098_1548040888_o-300x225.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 id=\"blessings-from-pakistan\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlessings From Pakistan!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends \u0026amp; Family,Our Lord is so good!  We all are fine by His grace and your prayers!  We thank you all for always standing in the gap with us as we serve here in this country!  Living here does has its challenges - with the lack of electrical power, fuel for driving, gas for cooking and heating in the winter.  But our Lord is always gracious.  Please pray for the country of Pakistan there is so much turmoil, conflict and unnecessary worries.  Yet, even though life is unpredictable here, the ministry of His Word which our Lord has assigned us is going smoothly.  We praise Him for His grace and we are thankful to you for your prayers!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Massey ~ April 2013 Newsletter"},{"content":"BLESSINGS \u0026amp; LOVE FROM PAKISTAN! Dear Friends \u0026amp; Family!\nWe hope and pray that this letter finds you safe, blessed and rejoicing in the Love of our Lord! The winter is almost over in Pakistan. Now it’s going to be a short Spring followed by the onset of a hot Summer! We praise God for keeping us safe, healthy and able to work within this mission field. We are thankful to you for your prayers support!\nNew Ministry! Audio Sermons for Pakistan!\nEXCITING! NEW AUDIO TEACHING MINISTRY It’s our vision for this year to have “Audio Urdu Expository Bible Teachings” available for Pakistani Christians. During last two months I’ve been studying, learning and making notes for my weekly Bible studies in the villages. During the month of March we will use those notes to start recording Audio sermons. We want to request you to please keep us in prayers as we start working on our recordings. This is something “Totally New” in Pakistan. Our Audio Sermons will be very helpful to so many people. We are not very experienced and don’t have proper equipment, but we want to go ahead and use all that we have to glorify His Holy name! Please pray!\nBIBLE STUDIES IN THE VILLAGES God has guided us to have special Bible Studies in the villages this year. In Pakistan there is no trend of “Expository Bible Study\u0026quot;. Teaching is always topical. With the grace of God and your prayer support we have started “Expository Bible Studies” (going through the Bible, verse by verse, Genesis to Revelation) in two villages. It’s a totally new approach in Pakistan; proved to be very helpful not only for the people but also for the teacher. We really are excited about the effects of this Bible Study in the lives of the people. People love to learn the Word of God this way. They patiently look forward for the next Bible Study, as if they are waiting for the next episode of their favorite serial. Please pray for us to be able to keep teaching faithfully, and also for the protection of the people of these villages and our team. [cincopa AYCAOEbkaXxx]\nSEMINARS Along with the “Sound Biblical Teaching\u0026quot;, my passion is to warn people about the dangerous cultist teachings spread around. We had been arranging different seminars and conferences in the past to help people to be grounded on the Solid Foundation of the Word of God, and to warn them of the false teachings of different cults. We have been using a lot of printed material also for this. To conserve on ministry costs, we no longer arrange such seminars and conferences ourselves, but we do go to teach in different areas when invited by other churches and ministries. Last month we traveled to Faisalabad city to teach in a counter-cult seminar arranged by The Church of Pakistan. I was also able to teach in two seminars; one was arranged by “Youth for Christ Pakistan”, and the second by “The New Creation Ministry”. These were presented in different areas. Such seminars and conferences are always very helpful for the new generation and the youth to learn discernment and grow in the true Bible based Christian faith. Please keep our ministry project also in your prayers. Please pray for our protection and needs as we travel and reach other people. [cincopa AAKALH7Zbr2L]\nSUNDAY SCHOOLS Calvary Chapel Pakistan is reaching more than 25 villages around our town in order to help and equip children with the Word of God. We visit these areas to encourage the Sunday school teachers who are serving voluntarily, and the children. God’s grace and your generous support have always enabled us to provide the basic needs of these 25 Sunday schools, e.g. the study material and the tools for teachings.\nFarah (my wife) is receiving Sunday School Training from a Christian training center. She will be helping one of our Calvary Chapel Pakistan team members Joseph Arif with the children\u0026rsquo;s ministry very soon. Farah contribution will make this ministry much more effective for the Christian Children. [cincopa A0GALG72b3mP]\nBIBLE DISTRIBUTION The Urdu Bible is not available in either electronic or audio formats. The Paperback Urdu Bibles are printed in South Korea. These Bibles are imported once a year by the Pakistan Bible Society and are available only from Lahore city. Most of the poor people of the villages are unable to travel to Lahore City in order to get a Bible. The majority cannot even afford to purchase a Bible, and the traveling also costs much.\nWe are thankful to you for joining hands with us for providing free Urdu Bibles to these poor, un-reached villagers. In the past four years, thousands of families of different villages have received Bibles. There are so many more requests, and by the grace of God and your support this project is going on. We also have a face book cause for Urdu Bibles by the name of “Save Coins for Urdu Bibles and Literature”. If you feel led by the Holy Spirit, please join this cause here!\nhttp://www.causes.com/CoinsForUrduBibles.\nNotice: We are sad to inform you someone in Pakistan imitated our Facebook Cause. The name and much of the content is nearly identical. Please check the Cause information carefully to not be confused between ours and theirs. These people go under: \u0026ldquo;Save coins for Urdu Bibles, promoted by Life Gospel Ministries, Pastor shumila Alam\u0026rdquo; These people ask you to contact them through email for instructions on how you can give them money.** \\\\ In contrast, Calvary Chapel Pakistan receives money through the channel of the Saving Grace World Missions, a legally registered, tax deductible charitable Missions Organization located in Yorba Linda, California, USA. The money is then wired by the Missions Organization to us here in Pakistan for purchase of Bibles. [cincopa AUPALH7nbPJU]\nFAMILY CORNER Our family is doing great. Our son Joshua is having his final exams this week and we have planned for our daughter Rachael’s School admission in the next week. We praise God for such sweet kids. It’s really amazing to see them grow so fast. Please keep them in your prayers!\nFarah is very busy with her Bible Training these days. She is studying “A Brief Church History, including The Persecution of The Early Church”, Christian Counseling, and Sunday School Ministry. I am really happy to see her always searching through the scripture, always learning and growing in the Lord. She is wonderfully managing the family and her Bible studies!\nJoseph and his family are also fine, except Kiran (his wife) who has some physical problems. We have always been posting prayer requests for her. Please pray for her healing!\nWe are always thankful to you our dear and faithful brothers and sisters in the Lord!\nWe Love you and Pray for you and your family!\nIn Christ, Nadeem, Farah, Joshua \u0026amp; Rachael Massey [cincopa AIKAoG7pbzkW] ","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/03/04/massey-update-march-2013/","summary":"\u003ch2 id=\"blessings--love-from-pakistan\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLESSINGS \u0026amp; LOVE FROM PAKISTAN!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends \u0026amp; Family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope and pray that this letter finds you safe, blessed and rejoicing in the Love of our Lord!  The winter is almost over in Pakistan.  Now it’s going to be a short Spring followed by the onset of a hot Summer!  We praise God for keeping us safe, healthy and able to work within this mission field.  We are thankful to you for your prayers support!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"MASSEY ~ March 2013 Newsletter"},{"content":"Psalm 1 Dear Friends and Family, Blessings to you all! We praise God for His grace and Love to help us keep working. We are always thankful to you all for the prayers and your love for us and this ministry in Pakistan. We Love You! God Bless You and your family. PRAYER REQUESTS: Please pray for Kiran (Joseph\u0026rsquo;s wife) as she is suffering from a thyroid disorder and this is causing some other problems in her body like hormonal imbalance and skin problems. She is such a wonderful lady and the mother of 5 years old son named John. She struggles with a sense of hopelessness about her condition day by day. Please pray for her to be healed physically, physiologically and spiritually. Please pray for our plan to start another \u0026ldquo;Through The Bible\u0026rdquo; Study at a new village during the coming month. We praise God for the current Bible Study in the one small village, we have planned and are praying for one more in the other village! Please pray for our upcoming \u0026ldquo;Counter-Cult\u0026rdquo; Seminar on 05 Feb. 2013, in Faisalabad City. Many small churches have joined together to arrange this special One Day Seminar. Please pray for all arrangements, for those churches, for our safe journey and for me (Nadeem) to be able to teach with wisdom. Please pray for \u0026ldquo;PEACE\u0026rdquo; in our country. Everyday so many people are being killed and there is lawlessness all around. Please pray for our government to be able to handle the situation and provide peace and protection in this country. Thank you and God bless you! In His love, Nadeem Massey ","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/01/26/prayer-requests-for-the-masseys-february-25-2013/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/2013/01/26/prayer-requests-for-the-masseys-february-25-2013/psalm-1/\"\u003ePsalm 1\u003c/a\u003e \u003cimg alt=\"Nadeem\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/10/Nadeem-300x298.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"dear-friends-and-family\"\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"blessings-to-you-all--we-praise-god-for-his-grace-and-love-to-help-us-keep-working-we-are-always-thankful-to-you-all-for-the-prayers-and-your-love-for-us-and-this-ministry-in-pakistan-we-love-you--god-bless-you-and-your-family\"\u003eBlessings to you all!   We praise God for His grace and Love to help us keep working.   We are always thankful to you all for the prayers and your love for us and this ministry in Pakistan.   We Love You!   God Bless You and your family.\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"prayer-requests\"\u003ePRAYER REQUESTS:\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"please-pray-for-kiran-josephs-wife-as-she-is-suffering-from-a-thyroid-disorder-and-this-is-causing-some-other-problems-in-her-body-like-hormonal-imbalance-and-skin-problems-she-is-such-a-wonderful-lady-and-the-mother-of-5-years-old-son-named-john-she-struggles-with-a-sense-of-hopelessness-about-her-condition-day-by-day-please-pray-for-her-to-be-healed-physicallyphysiologicallyand-spiritually\"\u003ePlease pray for Kiran (Joseph\u0026rsquo;s wife) as she is suffering from a thyroid disorder and this is causing some other problems in her body like hormonal imbalance and skin problems.  She is such a wonderful lady and the mother of 5 years old son named John.  She struggles with a sense of hopelessness about her condition day by day.  Please pray for her to be healed physically, physiologically and spiritually.\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"please-pray-for-our-plan-to-start-another-through-the-bible-study-at-a-new-village-during-the-coming-month-we-praise-god-for-the-current-bible-study-in-the-one-small-village-we-have-planned-and-are-praying-for-one-more-in-the-other-village\"\u003ePlease pray for our plan to start another \u0026ldquo;Through The Bible\u0026rdquo; Study at a new village during the coming month.  We praise God for the current Bible Study in the one small village, we have planned and are praying for one more in the other village!\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"please-pray-for-our-upcoming-counter-cult-seminar-on-05-feb-2013-in-faisalabad-city-many-small-churches-have-joined-together-to-arrange-this-special-one-day-seminar-please-pray-for-all-arrangements-for-those-churches-for-our-safe-journey-and-for-me-nadeem-to-be-able-to-teach-with-wisdom\"\u003ePlease pray for our upcoming \u0026ldquo;Counter-Cult\u0026rdquo; Seminar on 05 Feb. 2013, in Faisalabad City.  Many small churches have joined together to arrange this special One Day Seminar.  Please pray for all arrangements, for those churches, for our safe journey and for me (Nadeem) to be able to teach with wisdom.\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"please-pray-for-peace-in-our-country-everyday-so-many-people-are-being-killed-and-there-is-lawlessness-all-around-please-pray-for-our-government-to-be-able-to-handle-the-situation-and-provide-peace-and-protection-in-this-country\"\u003ePlease pray for \u0026ldquo;PEACE\u0026rdquo; in our country.  Everyday so many people are being killed and there is lawlessness all around.  Please pray for our government to be able to handle the situation and provide peace and protection in this country.\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"thank-you-and-god-bless-you-in-his-love-nadeem-massey\"\u003eThank you and God bless you!  In His love, Nadeem Massey\u003c/h4\u003e","title":"Prayer Requests for the Masseys, February 25, 2013"},{"content":"Background music is Psalm 1, being sung in Urdu by Anil Kant, a Christian Indian Singer\nBlessings from Pakistan! Dear Friends and Family,\nHappy New Year! As we have entered into a New Year, we praise God for His grace and blessings and we want to thank you for your prayers and support. Your support of Calvary Chapel Pakistan is a great encouragement and very special blessing for our family and the people of Pakistan among whom we are serving. We praise God for bringing us together to serve Him! During the year 2012 the Lord led us in many new areas of ministry and opened many new doors to equip the saints in Pakistan. I am excited to share this with you:\nDaily Bible Studies in Christian School: The Lord gave us the opportunity to teach within a local High School. More than 500 students, plus the faculty and staff wanted to sit in and learn. We had started humbly with two weekly Bible Classes in that facility but now we have been asked to teach the young children too. This will increase our classes from two to all five days of the week. I will continue teaching the older students and the faculty and staff, and my team mate Joseph Arif will teach the young ones. The Word of God has proven to be so powerful throughout our time of teaching. We have seen God\u0026rsquo;s grace and power work in phenomenal ways. Please pray for His continued blessing upon our Bible Studies.\nBelow are two photos of some of the older students who I taught this past semester:\n[cincopa AYPAWFrk04yH]\nSunday Schools: During the past year the Lord blessed us to reach children in about 25 villages. This encompassed about 1,000 students. We were able to establish Sunday Schools in those villages with the help of the local villagers. We have encouraged a few educated people from each village to step forward and teach their children the Word of God. We provide them study material for the children and guidance for the Sunday School Teachers. We visit them on a regular basis and provide oversight. We have been so blessed to see these young ones growing in faith.\nBelow are photos of some of our Sunday School children with their Teachers:\n[cincopa A0HA3EL90AuC]\nUrdu Bible Distribution: We were able to reach villagers with the Good News of the Salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and Urdu Bible Gifts for them. The provision of Urdu Bibles for these villagers is the greatest gift. We praise God for the provision of the Urdu Bibles for His people. We are thankful to those great people who have been supporting this Free Urdu Bible Project through “Running, Blood Donation, Saving Coin or sending donations”. We highly appreciate your partnership and are ever thankful. Below are photos of our team mate Mr. Arif gifting impoverished Christians with a Bible donated by our donors. [cincopa AwIAPHbx04EJ]\nAnti-Cult Seminars: The Lord has blessed us to share the truth of His Holy word and bring awareness about the Cultic teachings spreading so fast all around. During last year we were able to share information about cults with thousands of people through seminars and printed material. We have been invited by many schools, colleges and many churches not only in our own town but in some neighboring cities also. We praise God for this opportunity to help people know the truth and be set free! Many young men have in our town have come out of Mormonism into Jesus Christ. We were able to produce pamphlets to use in other cities of the country to help them beware of all these cults and their dangerous Teachings! Below are photos of our Seminars disclosing the heresies of the teachings Mormonism and Jehovah Witness [cincopa AIIAEGr30QXK]\nVisions for 2013 Womens Ministry: We praise God that he has blessed and guided us to a women\u0026rsquo;s ministry this year. We all know how important this ministry is so finally we are able to start in the villages where we have planned to start home churches. My wife, Farah will be sharing the word of God with these ladies to help them grow in faith and help them build Christ Centered families.\nFarah will also start visiting our Sunday Schools in the different villages, and she will help mobilize those ladies who are Sunday School Teachers. She will also encourage the women of their village to start having weekly fellowship. We believe this ministry will have a very positive effect on Christian families, Sunday schools in the villages and even village home churches. We request you to please keep this special ministry, the needs for this ministry and my wife Farah in your prayers.\nHome Church Fellowship at Villages: We have been praying to start Calvary Chapel style (Through the Bible verse by verse) Bible study fellowship along with our weekly Bible Classes at Christian High School. The Lord has answered our Prayers and now we are able to start this Bible Study Fellowship (a home church) at a village. People of the villages are less reached and though they are Christian by birth, most of them are not “Born Again” Christians. The times are getting more intense and dangerous for Christians. We believe that it is extremely necessary that people have the opportunity to gather together and be strengthened by the Word, by worship, prayer and fellowship with one another. They need to be grounded well into the Word of God. Sharing the whole counsel of God, verse by verse Bible Study will help them understand the Word of God and God’s awesome plan for their salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. A strong fellowship group with one another and with knowledge of the Word, will also help sustain them as the intensity of persecution increases.\nWe are praying with and for the people of village Bhatti Pungo where we will start our first Bible Study Fellowship. We highly appreciate your prayers for our outreach mission in Bhatti Pungo!\nSermon Audio Recording: In Pakistan we have very limited Biblical study material, and a large majority of the people in the villages are not educated. We had prayed for the opportunity to create and distribute audio and video teachings last year but we were not able to do it. We continue to pray about this and desire to record audio sermons this year. These will provide people free excess to them to be benefited and grow in faith.\nWe wish to utilize all the study we do to teach and preach and all the notes we have as many people learn as possible. We cannot record these sermons in the village churches, but will be doing that at home. This is a big project, and this we believe is going to be very much effective as well. We\u0026rsquo;ll appreciate your partnership and prayers!\nIn Christ Jesus, Nadeem Massey\n♥Family Corner ♥ [cincopa A4FAgG7J0EcT]\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/01/19/we-celebrate-2012-anticipate-2013/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBackground music is Psalm 1, being sung in Urdu by Anil Kant, a Christian Indian Singer\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 id=\"blessings-from-pakistan\"\u003eBlessings from Pakistan!\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHappy New Year! As we have entered into a New Year, we praise God for His grace and blessings and we want to thank you for your prayers and support. Your support of Calvary Chapel Pakistan is a great encouragement and very special blessing for our family and the people of Pakistan among whom we are serving. We praise God for bringing us together to serve Him! During the year 2012 the Lord led us in many new areas of ministry and opened many new doors to equip the saints in Pakistan.  I am excited to share this with you:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"We Celebrate 2012 \u0026amp; Anticipate 2013!"},{"content":"From Nadeem Massey, Pakistan ~ January 2013 We praise God for the provision of \u0026ldquo;New Urdu Bibles\u0026rdquo; for the villagers!\n.\nThis Morning we received 400 Bibles which we will be distributing in villages among those families who don\u0026rsquo;t have the Word of God at their home!\n.\nWe are thankful to all our donors, and representatives of Calvary Chapel and it\u0026rsquo;s projects. The Word of God will make a difference for eternity in the lives of all those who receive and read it.\n.\nThanks to all the supporters!\n.\nIf you feel lead by the Holy Spirit to be part of this project or be a partner of Calvary Chapel Pakistan, you can donate in two ways: Online through the link on this page \u0026ldquo;Become a Financial Partner\u0026rdquo; or by check through the mail. Just send the check to Saving Grace World Missions, 17451 Bastanchury Road, Suite 203, Yorba Linda, CA 92886. Please be sure to put a note in the comments or memo section stating the purpose of the gift as \u0026ldquo;Urdu Bibles\u0026rdquo;.\nThank you, Nadeem Massey, Calvary Chapel Pakistan\n[cincopa AwBA_Frnz0T2]\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2013/01/04/400-new-bibles-arrive-in-pakistan/","summary":"\u003ch2 id=\"from-nadeem-massey-pakistan--january-2013\"\u003eFrom Nadeem Massey, Pakistan ~ January 2013\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe praise God for the provision of \u0026ldquo;New Urdu Bibles\u0026rdquo; for the villagers!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Morning we received 400 Bibles which we will be distributing in villages among those families who don\u0026rsquo;t have the Word of God at their home!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are thankful to all our donors, and representatives of Calvary Chapel and it\u0026rsquo;s projects.  The Word of God will make a difference for eternity in the lives of all those who receive and read it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"400 New Bibles Arrive in Pakistan!"},{"content":"From Pakistan Mission Field Merry Christmas to you and your family! Dear Friends and Family!\nAs we enter the season of celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we hope this letter finds you well. The year 2012 is ending, and as we look back, we find it to be a tough year in which the devil attacked our family and ministry very forcefully and we were afraid to death. We went through so much fear, tension and depression. Then our Almighty Lord intervened and saved us. He placed our feet on the Solid Rock. Now at this point we cannot cease praising our Loving Lord for all that He has done for us and through us in this country, and we also cannot cease thanking you and praying for you all who always keep us in your prayers.\nRecently Lord refreshed us by taking us to our fellow missionaries in Nepal for one and half week. We had priceless time and blessed fellowship while we were in Nepal. And now we feel fully refreshed. It was first time for Farah (my wife) and our kids (Joshua and Rachael) to fly. They really had fun. Our little sweet Rachael had planned to catch the stars while she would fly; she missed the chance because as soon as the plane took off, she went to sleep. Joshua had fun watching cartoons in the plane and Farah enjoyed the flight and trip.\nThis year was very fruitful, we ourselves and our ministry has grown in all areas. Thank you very much once again for being there for us, for praying for our family and ministry and for supporting us. We pray for you and your family to be able to enjoy the Christmas Season with family and loved ones!\nWith love and blessings, Nadeem, Farah, Joshua \u0026amp; Rachael Massey, Serving the Lord as Calvary Chapel Pakistan\n“For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” [Isaiah 9:6]\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2012/12/16/a-blessed-christmas-to-all/","summary":"\u003ch2 id=\"from-pakistan-mission-field\"\u003eFrom Pakistan Mission Field\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"merry-christmas-to-you-and-your-family\"\u003eMerry Christmas to you and your family!\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we enter the season of celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we hope this letter finds you well. The year 2012 is ending, and as we look back, we find it to be a tough year in which the devil attacked our family and ministry very forcefully and we were afraid to death. We went through so much fear, tension and depression. Then our Almighty Lord intervened and saved us. He placed our feet on the Solid Rock. Now at this point we cannot cease praising our Loving Lord for all that He has done for us and through us in this country, and we also cannot cease thanking you and praying for you all who always keep us in your prayers.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A Blessed Christmas to All!"},{"content":"Dear Friends and Family,\nBlessings from Pakistan! You have probably heard through news sources that there has been much conflict happening within Pakistan due to a video (or movie trailer) put up on the internet about the Muslim\u0026rsquo;s Prophet Muhammad. As a result, the Muslims were greatly offended and created great violence in our country. There has been much fear among the Christian, but, praise God the Christians have remained safe. We praise God for the protection we have received. We are all fine and healthy. But, people who act unwisely in the name of “Freedom of Speech” don’t know how much hatred and problems their single act can create for so many innocent and poor people. We appreciate your prayers for our country, our people and our ministry. Thank you! In the Love of Christ, Nadeem Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey, Serving GOD as National Missionaries in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan\nWEEKLY BIBLE CLASSES: Our weekly Bible classes at Christian High School are now are very important and have become the BIGGEST PART OF OUR MINISTRY! What a blessing to be able to reach, teach, equip and build more than 500 Christian young men and women on regular basis! We praise God that the whole staff of this Christian school feels the need for such Bible Classes. They are very cooperative and very happy for this.\nPlease keep our Bible Class program and all the students and Christian High School in your prayers. Please pray also for the financial provision of all needs regarding these Bible Classes as we need to print notes and hundreds of pages each week. We are also preparing some small books to help our Bible Class Students to have good understanding of each book of the Bible.\nSUNDAY SCHOOLS: More than 1,000 small children are being taught the word of God at more than 25 different villages. The parents and families of these children were rarely reached by ministers and Pastors from the city. Therefore the parents know very little about their Christian faith. Glory to our heavenly father for blessing us with the opportunity to organize these Sunday Schools! Your prayers and support is very important contribution in this ministry also. We are thankful to you for your great love and support which enables us to reach more than 25 villages, and provide Sunday school material for more than 1,000 children.\nURDU BIBLES: Christians in the villages of Pakistan lead a tough life; most of the time they are busy working hard just to survive. On one hand they don’t have enough time to learn about their faith and on the other hand they are less reached and preached and most of the people don’t have even the word of God. Through our “Free Urdu Bibles for Villages” program about 1800 families in different near and far villages have received the Word of God. We wish to reach more - as far as we can - and help people get at least one Bible per family.\nWe thank you for supporting this very important project. The need for the Urdu Bibles is great; we always have requests from many different places for the Word of God. Please continue to pray for the particular need for the Urdu Bibles for villages. And, please continue to pray for the families who have already received a copy of the Bible, that they may grow in faith and the true knowledge of God.\nSEMINARS \u0026amp; CONFERENCES: Because many cults are working very hard to mislead many simple Christians who are not strongly grounded in the word of God, we feel the need to help people know the difference between true Christian teachings and cult teachings. We have been arranging many seminars and conferences in different churches in many cities. Many Christians are being benefited by these seminars and conferences and now many of those who have been misled by cults - especially by Mormonism - are coming into our contact to learn about the truth. We are so happy to see them returning back to the Lord.\nWe need to print many pamphlets for free distribution in different areas to warn people and help them be true Christians. We are thankful for the contribution of many of you for this project and want to request you to please keep this also in your prayers!\nThank you very much for being part of this ministry in Pakistan. We pray for you and your family and are very grateful for your faithful partnership in our ministry. God Bless You! Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey, Joshua \u0026amp; Rachael ","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2012/10/12/massey-october-2012-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/10/Nadeem1-300x298.jpg\" width=\"300\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlessings from Pakistan!   You have probably heard through news sources that there has been much conflict happening within Pakistan due to a video (or movie trailer) put up on the internet about the Muslim\u0026rsquo;s Prophet Muhammad.    As a result, the Muslims were greatly offended and created great violence in our country.  There has been much fear among the Christian, but, praise God the Christians have remained safe.  We praise God for the protection we have received.  We are all fine and healthy.  But, people who act unwisely in the name of “Freedom of Speech” don’t know how much hatred and problems their single act can create for so many innocent and poor people.  We appreciate your prayers for our country, our people and our ministry.  Thank you!\nIn the Love of Christ, Nadeem\nNadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey, Serving GOD as National Missionaries in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan\u003c/p\u003e","title":"MASSEY ~ October 2012 Update"},{"content":"BLESSINGS FROM PAKISTAN! Dear Friends and Family,We have had a very hot summer here, and along with that, worse \u0026ldquo;Power Outage\u0026rdquo; problems. Sometimes the situation becomes unbearable because of too much heat, humidity, mosquitoes and no power. As summer is winding down, life will become more normal. With power outages of 14-18 hours, it has been hard to work, study or even sleep. We praise God for the protection we have received. We are all fine and healthy.Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah MasseyServing GOD as National Missionaries in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan BIBLE CLASSES START: The schools are going to be opened and we are going to have our regular weekly Bible Classes at the Christian High School again from the month of September. We used to have two Bible Classes weekly - one for the Primary section and the other for the Middle Section. Hopefully, we will be adding a third Bible class with High and Intermediate sections now. The Bible Classes are very effective and we praise God for providing us such wonderful opportunity to be able to teach hundreds of students weekly. We thank you for your prayer and support contribution.\nSUNDAY SCHOOLS:\nOur 25 Sunday Schools in different villages are working to equip and train more than 1,000 children of the villages. In spite of hot summer, Joseph has been visiting these schools on his motor bike and has always been encouraging the teachers and children to serve and grow in Christ. We want to request you to keep all these children and Sunday School teachers in prayer. And also please pray for our ministry and the providence from the Lord for this particular ministry for the children to help them grow strong in their Christian faith.\nURDU BIBLES:\nThousands of Pakistani Christian villagers have received Free Urdu Bibles because of your prayers and support. The Urdu Bible is not printed in Pakistan, but South Korea. Every year the Pakistan Bible Society receives a limited number of Urdu Bibles. We are thankful to everyone of you for contributing towards this work of distributing FREE URDU BIBLES among poor Christian villagers. The need for the Bibles is really great. The Bible is not easily available everywhere, and not everyone from the remote villages travel to Lahore to get a copy. With your support, these poor villagers are receiving the Word of God at their door steps as we visit these villages. We request that you keep this project in prayer so that peop0le may continue to receive the Word of God. MY FIRST URDU BOOK: So many young people have started feeling great attraction to Mormonism and many other cults because of some financial and worldly support which is offered them by the promoters of these false faiths. Mormon leadership arranges their programs in great hotels like The Pearl Continental. They send young people to the Philippine Islands for missionary training, and this is really attractive for any Pakistani. People are joining them fast without knowing the truth about their beliefs. I\u0026rsquo;ve authored ten chapters of an Urdu language book about Mormonism. In my book, I\u0026rsquo;ve tried to share the Truth of the Word of God with love, and I\u0026rsquo;ve tried to show the difference between Mormonism and Orthodox Christianity. I am almost finalizing the book and will be sending it for proof reading and editing soon. I wish to write more books to share the Good News of our Salvation through the Shed Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Please pray for me to always follow the instructions of the Holy Spi9rit and write for the glory of our Lord. Please also pray for the financial provision needed to publish this book and to continue this project. FAMILY:\nOur whole family is fine - by the grace of God. Our son Joshua turned six years old last month. He is very smart and intelligent boy, he is very good in his studies. Our sweet daughter Rachael is three years old now and we are planning for her schooling also. We are very blessed and proud parents. We are thankful for your prayers for our family and the whole team. Joseph and his family is also fine and they all send greetings and love to you and your family. We love you and are thankful to you for the prayers and support of this ministry. God bless you!\nIn the love of Christ\nNadeem Massey\n[caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_4106\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignleft\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;300\u0026rdquo;] Joshua celebrating his 6th birthday enjoying birthday cake with his grandfather.\nRachael, age three, is active and loves to run, play and climb. Here she enjoys a visit to the children\u0026rsquo;s park.\nFarah handles the household, assists Nadeem in the ministry and is taking computer classes as well. Her duties as wife, mother, student and aid to Nadeem\u0026rsquo;s ministry keeps her very busy![/caption]\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2012/08/23/massey-august-2012-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLESSINGS FROM PAKISTAN!\u003c/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"/massey/2012/08/23/massey-august-2012-update/nadeem-and-farah-valentines-2/\" title=\"Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah Massey\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/Nadeem-and-Farah-Valentines1-300x225.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003eDear Friends and Family,We have had a very hot summer here, and along with that, worse \u0026ldquo;Power Outage\u0026rdquo; problems. Sometimes the situation becomes unbearable because of too much heat, humidity, mosquitoes and no power. As summer is winding down, life will become more normal. With power outages of 14-18 hours, it has been hard to work, study or even sleep. We praise God for the protection we have received. We are all fine and healthy.Nadeem \u0026amp; Farah MasseyServing GOD as National Missionaries in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan \u003cstrong\u003eBIBLE CLASSES START:\u003c/strong\u003e  \u003ca href=\"/massey/2012/08/23/massey-august-2012-update/olympus-digital-camera-3/\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/Bible-Class-41-300x225.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e The schools are going to be opened and we are going to have our regular weekly Bible Classes at the Christian High School again from the month of September.  We used to have two Bible Classes weekly - one for the Primary section and the other for the Middle Section.   Hopefully, we will be adding a third Bible class with High and Intermediate sections now.  The Bible Classes are very effective and we praise God for providing us such wonderful opportunity to be able to teach hundreds of students weekly.  We thank you for your prayer and support contribution.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"MASSEY ~ August 2012 Update"},{"content":"The ministry of Calvary Chapel Pakistan Missions respects the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and does nothing to violate the Blasphemy Laws (§ 295-A, § 295-B and § 295-C).Our purpose is to evangelize the unreached “Christians” of the villages and remote areas and strengthen the faith of the \u0026lsquo;cultural\u0026rsquo; Christians, those who are \u0026lsquo;born into\u0026rsquo; the Christian faith.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2012/04/14/disclaimer-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe ministry of Calvary Chapel Pakistan Missions respects the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and does nothing to violate the Blasphemy Laws (§ 295-A, § 295-B and § 295-C).Our purpose is to evangelize the unreached “Christians” of the villages and remote areas and strengthen the faith of the \u0026lsquo;cultural\u0026rsquo; Christians, those who are \u0026lsquo;born into\u0026rsquo; the Christian faith.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Disclaimer:"},{"content":" ","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/2012/04/13/massey-april-newsletter/","summary":"[","title":"Massey ~ April 2012 Newsletter"},{"content":"\nDear Friends and family,\nGreetings! We are thankful to you for standing and co-laboring with us in this mission field through praying for us/with there. Our Praise Reports and Prayer Requests are as below:\nPrayer Requests\nPlease keep our village church building in your prayers, we are raising support for this project. Pray that may Lord provide all that we need. Please keep our upcoming desert mission trip in your prayers. We will have 3 days of teaching, reaching out to some Hindu tribes and do some more outreach. Please keep our women ministry in your prayers, we always need support for the sewing schools, women fellowship and counselling. Please pray for our need for children ministry, we need to purchase LEDs for teaching rooms and renovate a room, that needs carpet, chairs, toys and other stuff for Children\u0026rsquo;s ministry. Please continue to pray for our families and ministry here in Pakistan. Thank You! Pastor Nadeem Massey\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/massey/massey/prayer-praise/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/05/banner-t.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/massey/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/05/banner-t.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Friends and family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings! We are thankful to you for standing and co-laboring with us in this mission field through praying for us/with there. Our Praise Reports and Prayer Requests are as below:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrayer Requests\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease keep our village church building in your prayers, we are raising support for this project. Pray that may Lord provide all that we need.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease keep our upcoming desert mission trip in your prayers. We will have 3 days of teaching, reaching out to some Hindu tribes and do some more outreach.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease keep our women ministry in your prayers, we always need support for the sewing schools, women fellowship and counselling.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for our need for children ministry, we need to purchase LEDs for teaching rooms and renovate a room, that needs carpet, chairs, toys and other stuff for Children\u0026rsquo;s ministry.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease continue to pray for our families and ministry here in Pakistan.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank You!\nPastor Nadeem Massey\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Prayer Requests"}]