In Karachi

To be back in Pakistan and work with ''ordinary'' people is nice. The embraces are many and the churches and the society feels....OK. Pakistan viewed from outside can seem threatening and dangerous, but when you're actually in here, you're touched by their love and they really take care of you. They also welcome you to participate in many different activities. I had to relearn the lesson again:

" That at a distance fear is growing, but in coming together, understanding and fellowship grows.''
To meet the authorities is....different. In their effort to prove to the world that they are fighting for peace, they treat all men as 'not-of-peace', until the opposite has been proven. (We are used to being treated as good, until the opposite is proven). But here, as when you're approved....the doors are opened. Yesterday we had a very good gathering with about 300 in a local church in Rawalpindi. Now I have 4 days in Karachi. Ingvar