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Edwin - The Shalom Christian Centre in Pakistan

              

 Please click on this picture to watch a

            video about Shalom

Edwin (shown here with his family) is the director of Shalom Christian Centre, a great testimony in a country where Christians are generally poor and marginalised. 

       

AMEN has been able to help with some specific donations towards building projects and we have great respect for the work which Edwin and his colleagues are doing in their troubled country. 

      

Edwin and his team have many ideas for developing Shalom even further to be a blessing to their whole community. We at AMEN would like to be part of partnering them in this as much as we are able. In the video above Edwin explains some of his plans for the future.

  

Gareth and Malou and the Trustees of AMEN

               

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     January 2010

 "A review of 2009"  NEW

       January 2010

 "An evening of celebration"  

       November 2009

 "Encouraging news - a new school and progress towards a library" 

             

Main Entrance to Shalom

Inside the grounds of the Centre

Inside the Grounds of the Centre - Restaurant

Main function room

The Good Samaritan Hall

An Introduction to The Shalom Christian Centre

             

Shalom is situated in historical city of Jhelum. According to a tradition Jhelum proved to be reverse point for Alexander the Great after sweeping victories in subcontinent.

  

SHALOM is a Hebrew word which means peace. It started working as a Christian Conference Centre back in 1980. It’s motto is “a place for a closer walk with God”. 

   

Before its conversion to Conference Centre this place served the community of Jhelum as a Good Samaritan hospital. This property and some of its buildings are over hundred years old.

 

Christian groups come here for retreats and residential seminars.

 

After working nearly twenty five years exclusively for Christians we changed the direction in 2005 when the management decided to open it for wider community to have more meaningful contact with them. The Muslim community is given day time usage of the place for weddings and social gatherings at low rates.

 

Our occupancy by Christian groups is around 35% of the year. And about 800,000 Muslims walk through our premises each year. The opening up to Muslims has been a great blessing as we have found a different way to reach out to them. 

   

This move has provided us with an opportunity to answer their questions about Christianity. We have also benefited financially by opening up to majority community.

 

There has been a major paradigm shift in the top-level management of Shalom in recent times. Now we are working on BAM (business as mission) concept. 

 

Shalom still needs more investment to develop its facilities and we are praying to God to help us build a school on 54000 sq ft of land across from Shalom in order to further our vision to help our community practically. We ask you to join in praying for the continuing ways in which can be a blessing to our community. 

   

Thank you

   

Edwin

       

Open meetings at Shalom

     

                                    Bible Study

                              Conference on Marriage

How you can help ...

   

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