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Day 7-Cities: Quetta
ISAIAH 57:18-19
“I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners, creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the Lord. “And I will heal them.”
***Pray that P believers will have wisdom and patience as they train up their children to know and serve the Lord in very difficult environment. Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
TRIBAL WATCH Pray for the Kasi Tribe. Kasi tribe forms the largest group of Pashtuns living in the Pakistanicity of Quetta. Kasi Pashtuns are generally affluent & well educated and not so culturally conservative as the other surrounding tribes. In Quetta, many Kasi Pashtuns are business people or hold
prominent roles in educational, medical or legal fields. Pray for many Kasi to hear the good news and come the faith and lead many to faith.
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The city of Quetta, Pakistan, is situated in a sunny mile-high valley
surrounded by four towering mountains. Before the devastating
earthquake of 1935, its British-built infrastructure earned it the title
“Little London.” Re-built over the years, it now has a population of over
a million, with Pashtuns – speaking the Southern dialect of Pashto –
representing over half the city.
Near the porous Afghan border, Quetta is home to many Taliban
and a stronghold of turmoil and strife. The Baloch Liberation Army, an
internationally recognized terrorist organization, is also established in
Quetta. “Now we have had salt in your home”, stated our bearded, husky
guest, as he got up from our carpeted floor after being served green tea.
“You won’t be harmed.”
While it is not currently recommended that foreign harvest workers
travel to Quetta, we thank God that Pashtuns are able to hear the good
news through radio and internet. R, a courageous fighter in his late teens,
had recently returned to Quetta from Afghanistan where he supported a
military faction. It was my second meeting with him in a local restaurant
and I tried to mask my surprise when he asked me if I listen to Christian
radio programs in Pashto.
During the first year that R met with me to help me learn Southern
Pashto, we read the New Testament together in the neighboring
Yousafzai dialect, as it was not available in R’s dialect. Today we are
still praying for the Bible to be completed in Southern Pashto, so that all
Southern Pashtuns may easily understand it.
Under a tough exterior that matches their rugged environment, people
long for freedom from violence and oppression. “Sometimes my family
members and I experience demonic attacks at night. It’s as if a mountain
is crushing my chest and I feel like I’m getting choked. Every home in our
area has such experiences”, R confided in me, as we walked through a busy,
exhaust-filled market area.
But God is at work! Q, a new believer, would spend a couple of hours
with me on Fridays to read the Bible together. One morning as we read the
story of Jacob blessing his grandsons, he abruptly stopped reading. Is he
struggling with some grammatical construction? I thought. When I finally
glanced at him, tears were running down his leathery cheeks. This Bible
story impacted this Pashtun grandfather more deeply than I could have
imagined.
GR, a white-turbaned friend whose name means “Slave of the Prophet”
reached over for another biscuit to dip into his green tea as we sat on our
guest room floor. After a silence he spoke deliberately, “I want to change
my name. I want to change it to ‘Slave of Isa’ [Jesus].”
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