What happens to families once they are freed?


There were forty families freed. Approximately half the Fathers, and grown children, are now working either in factories or public works or are drivers. They are hard workers and valuable to their employers. The other half are working on farms. The younger children are now able to go to school.

Some of the fathers are old and their bodies deserving rest, the brick yards having worn them out, but their able bodied sons are able to work and keep the family sustained.

The same goes for the sons of widows. Although the factory and farm work wages are still low they are very happy. It is more than the plate of food they were earning in the brick yards, while the rest of their families were slaving with them. And the farmers send the workers home with potatoes and other vegetables along with ok pay. All these families are able to sustain approximately $30 a month rent for their small courtyards and small homes, where they are now rejoicing and free. The daughters’ dreams of being dress designers, and dress makers, and educators are no longer just dreams.
We supplied several of the fathers with rickshaws. Sohail has upgraded to a newer rickshaw and he is now able to make payments. He is making a good living selling his ‘Freedom Fruit’ during growing season, and giving taxi rides during the winter.

Another father, has been able to purchase a donkey and a cart, hauling bricks to and fro from a brick yard, where he is being allowed to live rent free instead of being a slave to it.

Won’t the brick masters bring other families into debt bondage to replace the ones we freed?

This very well could happen, for there are now empty rooms, and the amount of bricks being manufactured are fewer. But whenever we free a family, we spend a minimum of 45 minutes speaking with the brick master.

We approach this cautiously, not wanting to anger them, but speaking to their conscience. When we sense a seared conscience from. Brick master, we rely on the good ‘Master’ above to give us the words to speak to the brick master below. There might be a blog one day that describes a few of the conversations we had with ten of them.

In May of 2020, before our freedom partners began to pitch in, I found myself becoming bitter toward brick master Mohammed Ramzan. But a Pastor stressed that God loves Ramzan also, and that they were praying for his heart. They were also given an open door to talk to him about the Jesus of his laborers.

My first trip to Pakistan to buy the freedom of the remaining 13 families from his brick yard was near, and the pastor informed me that Ramzan was contemplating leaving the business. Ramzan’s heart was changing to the point that when I found myself sitting next to him in his office, what I thought of as a cruel brick master, and now sitting next to him, I sensed a soul searching spirit. Several of his piers in the industry were chastising him for the move he was making in allowing us to empty his brick yard of human beings.

Each family freed by freedom loving people in the USA gives hope to brick yard families for miles around.

A brick yard worker told us of something that’s an incredible historical first; The families of his brick yard boarded a bus for a crusade we were having. The brick master gathered all the families together and told them;  “Your debts are written in this book”.  He then tossed it in a fire and told them; “You are now all free.” For we believe that a cry of freedom, a freedom cry of conviction is rising and hovering over the brickyards, brick masters, the police, and Parliament of Pakistan.