Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ.

I hope and pray this finds you well and with peace in our Lord. Once again, I appreciate all who are spending time in prayer and fasting and bringing the whole world before our mighty Healer and Lord Jesus Christ in this crucial period of COVID-19.  

By God's grace our church leaders report all our members in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are safe from the corona virus so far, and no one is quarantined. Of course it is not because of our deeds but our Lord's amazing grace alone through all our humble prayers with one mind and one spirit.  Continue your prayers for our fellow human beings around the world that our Lord will save everyone from this global disaster, according to HIS will.  Let His will be done.

Though our church members are safe from COVID-19, many of their families are near starvation, especially in India and Bangladesh. Most are extremely poor and earn only enough for daily life. If they don't have a job on a given day, they won't get wages for that day. We know very well that many households can only buy food and prepare it in the evening when the family man comes with money after laboring. Then husband, wife and children have prayers together and eat together. If someone cannot go to work, our other church members try to help them obtain food.

Three years ago, [Indian] Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked that everyone get a bank account even if they had no money to put in it. People did, but accounts of poor people remain at zero balance. Now they are in a huge crisis. None of our members have jobs due to fear of the virus. They are unable to help themselves.

Our director Pastor Paul, with a team of volunteers, has been visiting many families and helping them with basic foods, masks, hand sanitizers and other supplies. Pastor Paul has not even fully recovered from his recent ordeal, but doesn't care and continues ministering in the hills and valleys. Our prayers are his fortress.

The team has supplied as many needy families as possible with kits each worth US$40. Pastor Paul asked all our pastors and missionaries to help the people who are beginning to starve without jobs. I am happy to say many of our pastors have undertaken this. Certainly, when one member of the body of Christ suffers, the rest suffer.  We have about 1,000 families, with three to six members in each household.  If you are able, please send your help in this time of crisis. Our Lord will bless you abundantly according to His riches in glory.

+ Job prayed for his friends and the Lord restored all of his losses.
+ Joseph's faith the one true God of his fathers, his prayer and his faithful life saved Egypt from famine, and himself from his own brothers who had meant only evil toward him.
+ The prayers and fasting of Esther and her maids provided great deliverance for her people during their own own time of intense crisis.
+ Peter was delivered from the prison by the constant prayers of the church.
+ We know also about the powerful answered prayers of Elijah.
Our Lord will not turn His back on our prayers. Continue praying without ceasing.

Please remember the words of the Apostle James: “If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,’ and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?”  (James 2:15-16)

Pray for me and my family too. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

With love and prayers
Yours in His service,
Pastor Peter Haneef, President,
The Assembly of Loving God

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