Some of the most important teaching does not happen from a pulpit. It happens at home, in ordinary moments — a father talking while the family eats, a mother reminding a child of a verse she learned on Sunday, a story told again at bedtime because the child asked for it one more time. In brick-kiln families around Kasur, those moments are precious, and they are also under pressure. When parents work long hours and a debt hangs over the household, there is very little time or energy left for sitting, talking, and teaching slowly.
That is why Rising Stone Mission cares so much about teaching, and not only on Sundays. Led on the ground by Pastor Nemat, we gather for Sunday worship and Sunday school, where children can sing, listen, ask questions, and just be children for a while. We pray with families in their homes, and through prayer we nurture spiritual growth. We share food where we can, we help children toward schooling and regular education, we arrange medicines for the sick as far as our small means allow, and as far as possible we work to free families from brick-kiln debt bondage — like the family whose Rs 300,000 debt was cleared, whose children are in school today.
Moses spoke to God’s people about a kind of teaching that fits into daily life: “These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” — Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Notice the order in that verse. First the words are on the parents’ own hearts. Then they are passed to the children — not in one big lesson, but as they sit, as they walk, as the day begins and ends. That feels honest to us. Kiln parents may not have many books or much free time, but a truth spoken kindly at home, repeated in Sunday school, and lived out in front of a child can settle deep and stay for years. A child who hears that he is loved by God, that learning matters, that his future is not owned by a debt, carries something the kiln cannot weigh or take away.
We should say plainly where we are. We are a small mission. Our Sunday school is small, our teaching resources are small, and our help with schooling reaches only as far as our means allow today. We are doing this work honestly, at this modest scale, and we believe it will grow as partners join us. We would rather teach a few children well and tell the truth about it than pretend to be large. We say what we do, and we do what we say.
If you are a parent or a grandparent reading this, you already know how much the words at home matter. Would you pray this week for kiln parents who want to teach their children well but come home exhausted? Pray for the children in Kasur — that the words they hear in Sunday school and at school would stay with them, give them confidence, and point them to a different future. Pray for Pastor Nemat and those who teach alongside him.
And if God prompts you to give or to share this mission with your church, you would be helping that daily kind of teaching continue — a lesson learned, a verse remembered on the road home, a child growing up knowing she was taught with love, on purpose, day after ordinary day.