Pakistan
Nine house churches, and the reason they stay small
A convert carries a label that closes doors to work, housing, and the courts. These churches meet in threes and fours on purpose.
Persecuted for a new faith
The missionary leaves. The new believer stays.
In Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, and India, following Christ can cost a person their family, their work, and their legal standing in a single afternoon. Smyrna Ministries exists for what happens next.
Why Smyrna exists
It is not the proclamation. It is the progression.
Missionaries arrive, people believe, missionaries leave. Smyrna exists for what happens next — when a new believer loses family, work, and legal standing and has nowhere left to go. It is the one position no one else holds.
What conversion costs
Three things lost in an afternoon
A convert from Islam in one of our four countries rarely loses their standing gradually. It goes at once — often on the day the change becomes known.
He lost his family and his job in a single afternoon. What we do is make sure he does not also lose the Church.
— A Smyrna partner, Lebanon
Family
Marriage, custody, and inheritance are renegotiated overnight. In much of the region, family law does not recognise the conversion at all.
Work
Employment is withdrawn and references dry up. A business built over years can close within a week of the news spreading.
Legal standing
Anti-conversion statutes and blasphemy law turn a private decision into a matter for the courts, the registrar, and sometimes the police.
Where we work
Four countries. The whole list.
These four are the entire scope of Smyrna’s work. Every prayer guide, story, and partnership keys off this list — and it does not grow.
Lebanon
Converts navigating family courts, custody, and inheritance law that does not recognise the change.
Nigeria
Believers in the north and Middle Belt, where leaving Islam can mean leaving home for good.
Pakistan
House churches kept deliberately small, and the blasphemy laws that shape every decision they make.
India
New Christians in states with anti-conversion statutes, cut off from work and community.
From the field
What we are praying through now
Lebanon
A rented room becomes a place to stay
Locks changed, a job withdrawn, and a family of four needing somewhere to exist while everything is renegotiated.
Nigeria
School fees for the children of martyred fathers
Widows who cannot pay, and the arithmetic that decides whether a child stays in school this term.
Pray with us
Four doors, not four rungs
The four circles are not a ladder. The axis is reach, not intensity. Circle One is the deepest commitment per person and the narrowest in reach; Circle Four is the widest and the lightest per person. Every tier is a valid place to stay.
Reach widens outward. Commitment per person falls.
Circle One · Praying alone
Pick a region. Pray daily for a month.
A few minutes, one person, one specific request. Every other circle exists because someone here started first.
Smyrna gives youThe Monthly Prayer Guide
Anchor · Colossians 4:2
Circle Two · Multiplies
Ask three friends to join you.
Same rhythm, still personal. Relational rather than organised. It only takes someone willing to ask.
Smyrna gives youA guide for every friend you invite
Anchor · Ecclesiastes 4:9, 12
Circle Three · Gathered few
Gather monthly. Adopt one region.
Prayer stops being private. Someone has to convene it, and that is the whole shift.
Smyrna gives youA Region Adoption companion
Anchor · Matthew 18:20
Circle Four · Whole congregation
Five minutes inside a regular service, once a month.
The lowest commitment per person and the widest reach. Usually the front door — how a church meets this cause at all.
Smyrna gives youA one-page case for your pastor
Anchor · Acts 12:5
Join the prayer circle
Tell us which circle you’re in
Pick the circle that matches what you can actually keep — you can change it later. We’ll send this month’s prayer guide and the companion made for your circle.
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Donations do not buy information. They carry it further.
Nothing on this site is gated. Giving is what puts the prayer guide in front of the next thousand people, and the aid behind the next family.