{"id":6450,"date":"2016-06-22T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2016-06-21T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:26:32","slug":"pakistan-you-reconnected-us-with-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6450","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTAN: \u201cYou Reconnected Us with the Lord\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Operation Mobilization, June 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Sindh is Pakistan\u2019s largest province and includes a diverse mixture of languages and faith traditions with the majority being Muslim, a small percentage Hindu, and a minority Christian. OM trained and sent out believers to proclaim the life-changing message of Jesus to [twelve Sindhi people groups] living in ten different cities across the province.<\/p>\n<p>One team visited a remote village because the team\u2019s host heard there were believers living in the area. After going from house to house, team members reached a small mud house, where an elderly man, Najeeb, invited them in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur whole family came to Christ ten years ago,\u201d Najeeb told them. \u201cWe were rejected and faced discrimination from society for this. We remained steadfast in our faith, but the pastor stopped visiting us after two years because of fear. Now for the last eight years we were out of Christian fellowship and we thought no one would come to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team members encouraged Najeeb and his whole family, worshiped together, and gave them Christian literature in their local language. The team\u2019s host then committed to visit Najeeb regularly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank you and praise God for this arrangement,\u201d Najeeb expressed. \u201cYou reconnected us with the Lord!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\/feature-article\/r50296\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\/feature-article\/r50296\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also an OM story from nearby Bangladesh on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\/feature-article\/r50234\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\/feature-article\/r50234\">Crossing the Distance Online<\/a> as well as a recent report on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\/country-article\/r50484\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\/country-article\/r50484\">The Nomads of Our World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Operation Mobilization, June 15, 2016 Sindh is Pakistan\u2019s largest province and includes a diverse mixture of languages and faith traditions with the majority being Muslim, a small percentage Hindu, and a minority Christian. OM trained and sent out believers to proclaim the life-changing message of Jesus to [twelve Sindhi people groups] living in ten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PAKISTAN: \u201cYou Reconnected Us with the Lord\u201d<\/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-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","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=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6451,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}