Widows

One of the most important lessons the Lord taught us is to assist those who need help, with the specific instruction to extend this aid to the widows and orphans.  We at Bridge of Grace Missions have taken this lesson to heart.  Presently, Bridge of Grace Missions works with committed supporters to provide monthly assistance 14 widowed families.   

One of the widows we support is Nazia Sharif. Nazia and her son Stifnus Javed were previously slaves in a brick kiln.  When her husband contracted an illness, her family could not afford his medical medical treatment, and he tragically passed away, leaving Nazia alone with her son and a $1000 debt to the brick kiln landlord. Bridge of Grace Missions successfully paid off Nazia’s debt on Dec. 31, 2022.  Presently she works as a maid in several homes to support Stifnus, who is now 12-years-old.

Bridge of Grace Missions continues to support her financially in order to help ease her financial burdens and to enable her son to go to school.  She hopes that one day she can run her own small grocery store and better provide for her child.

 

  

 

Orphans

Bridge of Grace completed the building of its first orphanage in 2024! We now house and care for 16 orphans with the dream of expanding it to 34 children by 2027. The orphanage was built right next to our school in Gujranwala, which means that these children are able to attend our school as well!

Now that construction of the orphanage is complete, our focus is on raising support for the food, clothing, electric bills, staffing, and other needs necessary for caring for the children.

For this, we need your help.  Every donation you give supports a child in need!

One of the orphans we want to highlight was enslaved with her parents at the Kasur Thin Mord Brick Kiln. When her mother became pregnant, her father was forced to borrow money from their landlord for the mother’s medical treatment. Her father worked hard to pay back the loan, but the strain of the forced labor and the poor conditions in which they lived became too much for her parents. Both of her parents eventually contracted COVID-19, and due to the lack of medicine and their already weakened states from years of abusive labor, they both tragically passed away. After their deaths, the landlord took advantage of the young girl’s situation and began abusing her and tried to pressure her to convert to Islam and marry him. But on July 5, 2021, Bridge of Grace succeeded in rescuing this young girl from the Kiln, and now she lives at our newly built Orphanage!