GOOD SHEPHERD Ministry
Together we can change the world, Join hand with us to serve the outreach families
Together we can change the world, Join hand with us to serve the outreach families
Goal: To collect money in the United States to provide aid to suffering/struggling Christians in a rural community, Christian Colony Gojra, in Pakistan
Background: Christians in Pakistan represent a tiny minority. Pakistan is overwhelmingly Muslim (more than 95%), while Christians represent about 2-3%. Christians in Pakistan experience race, religion and class discrimination. While there are some jobs available, their poor access to education locks them out of those jobs. Most Christians work in factories like brick lines. Both men and women and even entire families work these subsistence jobs. Their wages are so poor that they cannot afford 3 meals a day. Any setbacks like illnesses put them at more significant danger of debt, default and even death.
The local Christians have been exploited by organizations and even mission groups. Their experience is that people enter their villages, take pictures that demonstrate the need—there are obvious hunger, bad health and poor clothing that can be captured—and then leave. They assume that these organizations leverage the pictures and raise money, just not for their villages.
At the same time, a US dollar goes a long way in rural villages of Pakistan. We estimate that packages of nutritious staple food items that we put together will cost $30-40 for a family of four. Good Shepherd's aim is to collect money in the United States to provide aid to suffering/struggling Christians in a rural community, Christian Colony Gojra, in Pakistan, through Ilyas Hameed, who will receive and dispense the aid. Shahbaz and Amber Hameed are the United States representatives of this effort.
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Good Shepherd Ministry reached those area where people living down to earth and served the families with food on monthly base.
Good Shepherd Ministry providing clothes and shoes to those peoples who are not able to buy it.
Shahbaz Hameed
President
Pastor Jeff Arnold
Director USA
Tasewer Javed
Director Pakistan
Ilyas Hameed
Project Director
Pastor Marc de Jue
International Advisor
Amber Javed
General Secretary
Waffa Javed
Treasurer
Shumaila Tanveer
Project Manager
Nadeem Samuel
Field Supervisor