Report of  South Asian countries trip

Naveed has served the communities  of  4 countries in South Asia which are Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and China.

and now he is serving in the United States of America.

 

Trip of Bangladesh in 2003
 

Religious Situation and Christians

About 88% population is Muslim with another 10% are Hindu. The remaining 2% are Christians, animists, Buddhists. The church is split into two groups: the visible church, consists of converts from Hinduism and the invisible church, which consists of converts Islam.

 

Islam become the state religion in 1988.

 

The constitution promises all citizens the right to profess. practice or propagate any religion (article 41) the government has introduced number of restrictions to the Christian community and continues to do so because of pressure from Islamic fundamentalism.

 

One restriction is the registration that all Christian organization need to be registered as government organization (NGO) and restrictions of printing bibles. Distribution of bibles is limited to Christians.
 

I served the Bangladesh Christians with the fellowship of  Community Centre for Handicapped. I stayed there 2 months ( March and April of 2003).

 

This community centre is located in Mymensingh. There is small church and every evening Christian people worship the Lord. This mission began in 1987.

 

We worked among poor Christian families and their children.  There are six small schools  for these children. On every weekend we visited Christians in Jails who were imprisoned.  These Christians were wrongly imprisoned.

 

I visited their small school in poor communities and helped teach creative activities skills.

 

During the two month I got a chance to participate with much zeal in these activities and worked together with the local people in  cities and villages to share the Love of God. It was joy to them that I tried to learn their Bengali language quickly.

 

Please pray for the Christians of Bangladesh that there may be better protection from harm and harassment and that the Christian message may be heard and received by all.

 

 

Trip of India in 2003

We, the 714 individuals  representing different cultures and religions of the 19 countries / territories of Asia participated in the 3rd Asian youth Day, on the theme "Asian Youth For Peace" from the 9th to the 15th of August 2003 in Bangalore , India.
 

Peace is the heartfelt aspiration of all and not merely a conflict-free situation. We acknowledge God as the source of all peace and it demands congruence within oneself with others and with nature. Harmony within oneself is the seed of peace. We believe, as Christians that authentic peace comes through Jesus Christ, which is to be shared with our fellow human beings.

 

During these days of Asian Youth Day III we witnessed many struggles for peace and we were inspired by their responses in small and big ways. All this made us realize that peace is possible in spite of our differences.

The 21st century presents to us the host of challenging realities. Militarism seen as the primary solution to any political or economic problem. The issue or arms race is a growing phenomenon due to the mistrust between communities and nations. With more wars, there may be more refugees and internally displaced people, compounded by terrorism, fundamentalism and suppression of religious freedom. Asia would become a very unstable region economically and politically. With all of these conditions, acute poverty is becoming widespread in certain parts of Asia.

 

All this puts lot of pressure on the families and individuals, resulting in migration, housing, food, employment and health care problems. The poor and the powerless are most vulnerable to human rights abuses and injustice. We can can not see this as mere issues anymore, but as violation towards the children of God.

 

We commit ourselves fully to God, compassionate love and mercy, thus we will "Do justice , Love kindness and walk humbly"  He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:8)

 

The countries that have participated in this  program are :

Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hmong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

 

Please keep us in our prayer that Lord bless us with peace and love.

 

Trip to China & N Korea 2001 &  2004

In November 2004 my wife Stephanie and I made our first missionary trip together to China.  This is Stephanie second missionary trip to China.  The main purpose of this trip is to bring Bibles written in Chinese into the country.  Stephanie has successfully been able to smuggle 60 bibles into China.  In the first trip there were 15 missionaries and thanks to be to Jesus each person made it through customs each carrying 40 bibles. 

 On the second trip 40 missionaries made it through customs carrying 20 bibles each.  Although the Chinese government speaks of religious freedom, this simply is not true once inside the country of China.  The Christians need to congregate in underground churches and in the middle of the night just to worship.  Right now 1 in 17 Christians has a Bible in China.  Can you imagine sharing your bible with 17 others?  This is why it is so important to bring Bibles in to China.   

 

Government officials continued to scrutinize closely contact between citizens and foreigners involved in religion. The Government detained some citizens for providing religious information to foreigners and prevented some religious figures from travelling abroad. We were not allowed to visit any Christian families because they were afraid that later the police were going to investigate why we had visited them.

 

There is a beautiful novel by Randy Alcorn called Safely Home that depicts accurately the story of a Christian Chinese family and the persecution they endured.

 

The second part of our missionary trip to China was to visit orphans who were abandoned by their parents due to either the gender of the child or birth defects.  This particular orphanage is run by and American couple who gives each child a Biblical name along with their Chinese name and makes sure each one is baptized.

 

As a part of Stephanie's first missionary trip to China in 2001 her team was able to get on to the North Korean border.  For 6 months prior to this trip the entire team fasted and prayed for winds to blow in the right direction from the South Korean border into North Korea. 

 We worked in the middle of the night launching balloons with the entire New Testament printed on a balloon.  We filled the balloons with helium and launched 247 of them. 

The Lord blessed us that night with very strong winds blowing these balloons into North Korea.  Our prayers go out to all the North Koreans who live under such deprived conditions and we are trying to get the word of God to them. 

 

Please pray for Chinese & North Korean Christian that Lord open doors for them to practice their faith in Him.