Spirit, soul and body
A Sunday School in Pakistan cannot only be a Bible lesson. We teach the whole child — because a child who arrives hungry does not hear the lesson.
Good Samaritan Ministries Pakistan
Sunday School in Pakistan
For thousands of children in Pakistan, Sunday School is the only place anyone will ever teach them the Word of God — and for many it is the only place anyone tells them they are worth something. By God’s grace this ministry takes that class beyond the church wall: into the city congregations, out to the brick kilns, and into villages with no church building at all.
- 2009serving children across Pakistan since
- 150,000+free Urdu Bibles given away
- 50,000+children’s Bibles to schools and Sunday Schools
- 1,000+Christian leaders and teachers trained
Where the work happens
The same Gospel, taught in three very different places — and reaching each one takes something different.
In the city church
Thirty children in one room, a volunteer teacher who has already worked a full day, and no equipment beyond a Bible and a voice. This is where teachers are trained.
The city church work
At the brick kilns
Families bonded by a debt that passes to their children. The class meets in the open, on whatever day the families are able, and trust comes long before any Bible is opened.
The brick kiln work
In the villages
A handful of Christian households, no church building and no pastor nearby. A class starts in somebody’s courtyard — and very often the church follows the children.
The village workOur model
Spirit, soul and body
A child who arrives hungry does not hear the lesson. A child who has never held a pencil cannot read the verse. A child whose family is bonded to a kiln may not be allowed to come at all.
So this work is shaped the way our schools are shaped — the whole child, not one part of them. The Gospel taught plainly in the child’s own language; the mind and heart opened through reading, singing and speaking; and honest attention to what the family is actually facing at home.
Songs Our Children Sing
A child forgets most of what they are told and keeps almost everything they sing. Bible Muqaddas teaches Psalm 119:105 — that God’s Word is a lamp for our feet.
Bible Muqaddas
Written and composed by Rev. Dr. Naeem Nasir
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
Psalm 119:105
Sung in Urdu, in the language the children speak at home, so that a class anywhere in Pakistan can learn one of the most important verses in Scripture without any equipment at all.
Given away, never sold
A free curriculum for any church
Forty complete lessons, with the memory verse in English and Roman Urdu, a teaching outline, an activity, a craft and a prayer. Free to read, print, copy, translate and teach — because the teachers who need help most can afford it least.
God Made Everything
Everything a child can see was made on purpose by a God who is good.
Genesis 1:1
Noah and the Ark
Noah obeyed God when nobody else did, and God kept every promise He made.
Genesis 6:22
Abraham Said Yes to God
God asked Abraham to go somewhere he had never seen, and Abraham went.
Genesis 12:1
Start by praying
If you have found this from a church abroad, the most useful thing you can do is the thing we ask for first. Pray for the volunteer teachers who prepare a lesson after a full day’s work. Pray for children learning to read Scripture in a language the world prints very little of. Pray for families still bonded at the kilns. A church that prays for one Sunday School by name is a real partner.
From the ministry
Why This Curriculum Will Always Be Free
Sunday School material is written for churches that can afford it. The teachers who need it most are the ones least able to buy it, so this curriculum is given away.
How to Teach Thirty Children in One Room
One room, one teacher, ages four to fourteen and no equipment. This is the ordinary situation of a Sunday School in Pakistan, and it can be taught well.
What Happens in a Sunday School Class on a Saturday
An hour and a half, thirty children, one teacher and almost no equipment. What a class in our Sunday School ministry actually looks like from start to finish.