{"id":10826,"date":"2022-02-16T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10826"},"modified":"2022-02-15T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T00:02:08","slug":"pakistan-17-year-old-boy-leads-an-entire-tribe-to-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10826","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: 17-year-old Boy Leads an Entire Tribe to Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Mission Network News, February 10, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Pakistan, a 17-year-old boy led his entire tribe to follow Jesus. Rehan worked as a waiter at a roadside restaurant. He often worked 12-hour days, trying to scrape together enough money to feed his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, a truck driver began visiting the restaurant. Over time, Rehan noticed how well the man, Safdar, treated him and asked him why. Nehemiah with <a href=\"http:\/\/forgottenmissionaries.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Forgotten Missionaries International (FMI)<\/a> tells the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRehan said, \u2018How is your attitude towards a waiter so gentle? Have you joined some other sect than Islam?\u2019 Safdar gave him an audio Bible. Rehan took it home and began listening. Then Safdar suggested Rehan take off from his work and spend time together to answer his queries and questions at the FMI Discipleship center.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rehan realized how much Jesus loves him and he was baptized a couple of months ago. He didn\u2019t stop there though; he gathered his family together and told them as well. His parents were moved by the message but still feared backlash from the tribal leaders. Nehemiah says when someone in Pakistan starts following Jesus they often face persecution from their tribe and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nehemiah says he invited three FMI partners to help him share the gospel with the tribe. \u201cOne evening, he gathered all the tribe\u2019s members under one big tent. First, Rehan showed a movie about Jesus. Then an FMI partner shared a 15-minute devotion about new hope in Christ. That day, a 17-year-old-boy led his whole tribe to the Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Praise God for this tribe of about 60 people, and ask him to strengthen them. Pray the story of Rehan and his tribe would not be an isolated one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/17-year-old-pakistani-boy-leads-entire-tribe-to-jesus\/\">Read the original story<\/a> or listen to the audio broadcast.<br><br>You might also be interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiers.org.uk\/latest\/blog\/posts\/2022-01-20-looking-back-on-30-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Looking Back on 30 Years<\/a>, in which the UK Director for Frontiers considers factors that have led to the movements toward Christ we see today in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, February 10, 2022 In Pakistan, a 17-year-old boy led his entire tribe to follow Jesus. Rehan worked as a waiter at a roadside restaurant. He often worked 12-hour days, trying to scrape together enough money to feed his family. One day, a truck driver began visiting the restaurant. Over time, Rehan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pakistan: 17-year-old Boy Leads an Entire Tribe to Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10827,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826\/revisions\/10827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}