Some days in ministry are memorable. A family walks free from a kiln debt. A child starts school. A Sunday service is full of singing. But most days are not like that. Most days are ordinary — a visit to a family who is still struggling, a prayer prayed for the third or fourth time over the same worry, food shared that will only last a short while, a sick person comforted and helped with medicine as far as a small budget allows. Ordinary days can be tiring, if we are honest, because the need does not take a day off.
That is the real rhythm of Rising Stone Mission in Kasur. Pastor Nemat leads the work on the ground among brick-kiln families whose lives are shaped by hard labour and debt bondage. We pray with families, and through prayer we nurture spiritual growth that helps people keep going. We teach on Sundays — worship for the adults, Sunday school for the children — we share food where we can, we encourage children toward education, we arrange medicines for the sick as far as our small means allow, and as far as possible we work toward freedom for families bound by kiln debt, like the family whose Rs 300,000 debt was cleared and whose children could go to school.
Paul wrote a sentence we need on the ordinary days: ‘Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.’ — Galatians 6:9
Notice Paul does not deny the weariness. He names it. Doing good for a long time, with little visible change, does make people tired. A mother at a kiln knows that tiredness in her body. Our little team knows it in a different way when resources run low and the list of needs does not. The promise in the verse is not that the harvest comes quickly. It is that it comes at the proper time, and that giving up is the one thing that would stop us seeing it. So we keep visiting. We keep teaching. We keep praying first, and then doing the next faithful thing in front of us.
We want to be plain about our scale. We are small. The food we share is shared as far as we are able. The medicines are arranged as far as our means allow, and sometimes that is less than we wish. We are doing this work today, honestly and at a modest size, and we believe it will grow as partners join us. Weariness would tempt us either to exaggerate what we do or to quietly stop. By God’s grace, we want to do neither. We say what we do, and we do what we say, one ordinary day at a time.
Maybe you know something about not giving up in your own life — caring for someone for years, praying for a person who has not changed yet, doing good work nobody notices. If so, you understand these families and this mission more than you think.
Would you pray for perseverance this week — for kiln parents who rise early and work late, for children holding onto school and Sunday school, and for Pastor Nemat and our team to stay kind, stay truthful, and stay close? And if God prompts you to give or to tell your church about this work, know that your faithfulness on an ordinary day can be part of a harvest you may not see yet, in a family you may one day hear about — free, fed, learning, and still believing.