PAKISTAN

Dear Partners and Praying Friends,  

I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones safe and secure in God’s love and care for us in this broken and health-challenged world. Who could have guessed that a month ago church doors would be closed with worship moved online, public schools shut down with parents becoming classroom monitors, and our nursing homes closed to family visitors? This COVID-19 pandemic has upended all that we regularly depend upon and gives us one more opportunity to trust in the Lord with all your heart. (Proverbs 3:5)  

Just last week, Jim [Rector of FCC] and Beth Tebbe were ready to fly back to the US for our Spring FFCC board meeting; but on Monday Jim decided not to come. Good thing – Universities were closed by the government, and Pakistan closed its borders with Iran and Afghanistan to do its own work to flatten the curve of their citizens catching the coronavirus. With only a few hours warning, last weekend Pakistan also shut down all international flights. Jim and I have been in regular conversation; and he shared that while Chicagoland is smaller than Lahore in population (10 million vs. 14 million), it has 1,000 ventilators. Lahore has 40! Fighting the coronavirus will be a very different affair over there, so we need to pray.  

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