What We Share With Love Is Never Wasted

There is a quiet kind of hunger that does not always show itself. A family at a brick kiln near Kasur can work a long, hard day and still sit down in the evening wondering how to stretch what little they have. Parents know that feeling well. They will often eat less themselves so a child can eat a little more, and they do it without making a speech about it. Love in a poor home is very practical. It looks like a smaller portion taken without complaint.

That is one reason food has always mattered in the work of Rising Stone Mission. We are a small Christian mission in Kasur, led on the ground by Pastor Nemat. We visit brick-kiln families who live under debt bondage, we pray with them, and through prayer we try to nurture real spiritual growth. On Sundays we gather for worship and Sunday school, where children can sing, listen to God’s word, and learn. We share food where we can. We help children toward schooling, we arrange medicines for the sick as far as our small means allow, and as far as possible we work to free families from kiln debt — as happened for one family whose Rs 300,000 debt was cleared, and whose children are now in school.

The writer of Hebrews puts sharing right at the heart of a life that pleases God: “And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” — Hebrews 13:16

Notice that little phrase: do not forget. Sharing is not presented as something only for special occasions, or only for people who have plenty left over. It is an ordinary part of following Jesus, so ordinary that we can forget it if we are not careful. A meal shared, a bag of food carried to a home, a small gift given quietly — God sees these things. Scripture even calls them sacrifices, because real sharing usually costs the giver something. It is not leftovers of the heart. It is love choosing to give up a little of its own comfort for someone else.

For a kiln family, that kind of sharing carries a message bigger than the food itself. It says: you have not been forgotten. You are not just workers, not just a debt on someone’s book. You are people known by God, and remembered by His people. Anyone who has ever received help at exactly the moment they needed it knows how much that message matters. The food feeds the body for a day. Being remembered feeds courage for much longer.

We want to tell the truth about our scale, as we always try to do. Our food sharing is small. We cannot feed every family we meet, and we cannot do it as often as we would like. Our medicines help is small too, kept small by limited funds, and most families are still waiting for the freedom we long to see for them. This is the work we are doing today, honestly and at a modest scale, and it is the work that will grow as partners stand with us. We say what we do, and we do what we say — and when God provides through His people, we want every gift to land where it was meant to land: with a real family, meeting a real need.

Maybe today this verse is a gentle nudge for you, wherever you are. Is there someone near you who should not be forgotten — someone you could share with, in a simple, practical way? Start there. And would you also remember the kiln families of Kasur in your prayers this week? Pray that no parent would have to choose between food and dignity, and that children would go to bed fed, safe, and able to learn again tomorrow.

If God puts it on your heart to give, or to share this mission with your church, please know what your kindness joins here: a shared meal, a remembered family, a child with strength for school, and a small mission learning, day by day, not to forget to do good.