Source: Mission Network News, February 17, 2017
Last summer while in Pakistan, Bruce Allen [of FMI] had met a couple who had just gotten baptized.
These two new Christians were on fire for the Lord and wanted to grow in wisdom and encouragement and to share their faith with their family as well as others. In fact, this was their main prayer request.
“Habib did indeed have an opportunity to share his faith with his family—and they promptly tried to kill him, throwing him off the top of the building,” Allen shares.
Imagine that, having the very people who are closest to you, know you most intimately, violently turning on you for sharing the gospel. It’d be easy to understand if Habib had grown bitter and vowed to never return. But that’s not his story.
Just last month, Allen was back in the country, meeting with new believers and even was able to see some new believers get baptized.
“At the end of that day, having conversations with some of the people who were baptized, we discovered that it was Habib’s family who had gotten baptized.”
Habib and his wife’s steadfast testimony was impactful and influential, and God used it along with his Word to bring this family to him.
» Read full story and also another FMI report about ministry in Pakistan, It Begins with One Cup of Tea.