Urgent plea from Pastor Peter Haneef, President, Assemblies of Loving God (ALG)

Pastor Peter Haneef, ALG (Assembly of Loving God) President, recently sent out a rather dire report from the front lines on efforts to keep the ministry going. I will summarize his plea to you, our friend and supporter, here.

“We are going through a big crisis,” he writes. “We have about 428 underground house churches in Asia, Africa and the Middle East spreading the gospel to Muslims and other unreached people. But our income is not sufficient for our needs.”

While about 20 churches in the Middle East have until the recent crisis been able to support themselves—with some able to support a church in Africa as well—due to the ravages of and limitations imposed on them by Covid they have been barely able to maintain their own congregations.

“I am requesting your prayers to overcome this pathetic situation,” Pastor Peter continues. “Maybe it is our Lord's plan to teach us more about His sufferings. Glory to His Holy name.

“We praise and thank our Lord for our brethren who regularly support us, though they are very few. On behalf of the ALG Church and Bibles for Mideast, I thank all contributors who help us and our ministry. May our Lord bless you and your family abundantly. Your contributions and prayers shall go forth as a memorial before our Lord.” 

He goes on to quote the Apostle Paul:

"We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—always carrying around in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in us" (2 Cor. 4:8-10).

Pastor Peter and those in the many churches of ALG also take encouragement and strength from Paul’s further writing to the Church of Corinth (in 2 Cor. 6:3-10) about trials and hardships:

“We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.  Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;  in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;  in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;  in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;  through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;  known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;  sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.”

He asks that we keep up our prayers for all of the 428 churches he oversees: for the pastors, ministers and believers.

“Let our Lord's will be done.  However we will rejoice in the Lord as Habakkuk says in 3:17-19.

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

“Though the fig tree does not bud
    and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
    and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
    and no cattle in the stalls,
 yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
    I will be joyful in God my Savior.

 The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
    he enables me to tread on the heights.”
[Habakkuk 3:17-19]

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