Most of the people we reach have never owned a book of any kind, let alone this one. Nobody is handed a whole Bible on the first day — there is a ladder, and it is climbed one rung at a time, in whichever form a person can actually use.
A new believer is given the Gospel of John on the day they ask. It is short enough to finish, and the whole gospel is inside it. Then we come back.
About two weeks later comes the full Bible — and this is where it matters what a person can actually do. Printed, for those who read. An Urdu audio Bible, for those who cannot read or write — a small player with the whole Scripture and gospel songs on it, which brick-kiln families can listen to while their hands are busy. A children's Bible in colour, for children who have never been to school.
There is no test and no charge. Nobody signs anything. The pastor who gave it comes back to read it with them, because a Bible handed over and never opened again helps no one.
The moment someone receives the good news, we place a copy of John's Gospel in their hands. One short book, the life of Jesus, nothing to intimidate a brand-new believer. These go out in the tens of thousands.
Once a new believer has read John and is still hungry, and once our pastors judge them ready, we give the complete Holy Bible as a free gift to anyone who can read and write.
Most kiln workers never went to school. Battery and solar players carry the spoken Word in their own language, so a whole family can listen together in the evening.
Colourful, age-appropriate storybook Bibles for children who have never owned a book of any kind.
These are the photographs the ministry cares most about, and they are almost always portraits — because what is happening is happening to one person.
An elder who cannot read holding the book open anyway. A woman turning the pages of something that belongs to her. A child with a colour Bible under her arm. Nobody posed them; the camera was simply there when it was handed over.
“Do not merely look out for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.”Philippians 2:4
Nothing here is stock photography. Our own team took these on the day the Bibles were placed into people's hands, in the villages where it happened.
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“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Psalm 119:105Harvest Hands translates and distributes Christian literature across Pakistan. If you have written a book, a study, a devotional or a discipleship course, we can render it into Urdu, have it printed properly, and put it directly into the hands of believers — in our own congregation, in more than four hundred home churches, and among the pastors we train.
Most Christian books written in English are never read by a single Pakistani believer. Not because the appetite is missing, but because nobody translated it and nobody carried it there. We can do both.
Printed, audio or a children’s Bible — whichever that person can actually use. Given free, and followed up in person.
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