Linda Murray & Christopher Hill join The Elim Missions JOGLE Challenge. Here’s why…

Linda Murray has the enormous privilege of working with Elim International Missions, who are involved in many projects around the world, offering hope in what seems like hopeless situations.

In Pakistan we support third generation brick slave children. As young as 4 years old, they are required to work making bricks in poverty and in extremely poor conditions. They are robbed of a normal childhood, laughter and of education. They are essentially the modern-day slaves of the 21st century.

As an option to making bricks, children can be enrolled in Grace School in Pakistan which hosts 200 children, many from the brick factories. At school children enjoy high quality education, good food, good company, play rather than work … isn’t this what every child deserves?

Children who are not in school make bricks for 12-14 hours a day in a hostile environment with searing temperatures of up to 40 degrees. The more bricks they make the more food they get to eat, what a miserable existence for any child. Families allow their children to work because the wages are so low and being indebted to the factory owner with interest so high, they find themselves in an impossible situation, with little by way of choice.

The challenge we undertake is to bring hope, make change and to rebuild broken lives, by providing an education to the brick slave children and the poor.

In addition, Little Bethel, a project birthed in 2015 provides a home and a shelter for vulnerable young girls, who have experienced unimaginable tragedies and are often victims of violence, extreme poverty, and sexual abuse, often suffering the physical and psychological trauma of trafficking. Elim Pakistan provides education and a loving environment for these girls. They need a safe shelter to mend their emotional wounds, build their confidence and which creates a space where they can develop and grow with dignity and respect.

Children in school don’t make bricks, and an EDUCATION provides HOPE for the FUTURE, and girls RESCUED are SAFE from harm.

We are engaging in an extremely tough challenge to support the ongoing needs of the projects, cycling from John O’Groats to Lands’ End, a sum of 867 miles, on the 20th-28th May 2022. There will be huge elevation, ranging from 4075 - 7750ft, each and every day to negotiate, in an attempt to raise funds to continue making a difference in the lives of unfortunate children.

Christopher Hill, of Recovery Lab, has written the training programme and provided the coaching for the Elim Missions team. He himself, moved by the project, and will be taking up the challenge to ride the whole 867 miles in 8 days. He has joined our team and together we are fundraising for this incredible cause. Elim Missions is extremely grateful to have him as a professional on board. In truth, we could not have prepared for this extreme challenge without him.

I hope that by reading this page you get a glimpse of how the money we raise will make a difference in the lives of so many vulnerable children. Will you support us both as we do this challenge?

Proverbs 31:8-9 says: ‘You should defend those who cannot help themselves. Speak up for the poor and helpless and see that they get justice’. (TLB)

This is our cause, will you make it yours?

Thank you for your support and generosity.

For more information visit: www.Elim.org.uk/missions/JOGLE2022

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