Shahid Masih Family

The Shahid Masih family has been held at a brick kiln in Pakistan for more than twenty-five years. Shahid is 42. Lubna, his wife, is 35. Their children are Suleman, 18, Arslan, 16, and Waheed, who is 3. They are not allowed to leave.

The debt began with Lubna's joints. Standing is hard for her. Bending is hard. The family borrowed from the kiln owner so she could be cared for. Then she needed a C-section, and they had to borrow again. The wages never caught the interest. So the children work the same ground. The kiln is the only life Waheed has known.

They are still at the kiln. More than twenty-five years of bricks have not paid the owner off. He still holds the debt. The family still cannot walk away.

$699 pays that debt in full and sets the whole family free. We line up housing, food, and a new job where they keep all the money they earn. The owner signs papers, and we document it, so their freedom is on record.

Jesus calls his people to be generous. He said that what we do for someone the world overlooks, we have done for him. A gift toward this $699 is how these five people walk out.