Freely given consent
Permission asked for this specific use, given without pressure, and able to be withdrawn later. If she changes her mind, we take it down.
A Christ-Centered Discipleship Movement
Alert in Mind. Strong in Faith. Wise in Life.
A Christ-centered discipleship movement equipping girls and women in Pakistan to grow in faith, wisdom, character and service.
Our Approach
Everything Begins With Christ.
Not with a programme. Not with a project.
We do not begin with a curriculum and then look for people to fill it. We begin with Christ, and with the woman or the girl who is actually in front of us.
Programmes change. Projects end. A woman who has come to know Christ, who has been taught to open His Word for herself and to think clearly about her own life, carries that for the rest of her life. In time she passes it on to her daughters.
That is why this work is slow, personal and unhurried, and why we would rather speak about people than about events.
NEPSIS
Alert in Mind. Strong in Faith. Wise in Life.
Equipping girls and women in Pakistan
In faith, wisdom, character and service
For Christ. For Families.
Why NEPSIS
A Name That Means Watchfulness
Nepsis is a Greek word for watchfulness: a mind that is sober, alert and awake. It shares its root with the word Peter uses when he calls believers to stay alert and stand firm in the faith. That is the whole of what we hope for: women who are awake to God, grounded in His Word, and steady when life is not.
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. 1 Peter 5:8
-
01
Faith & Christlike Character
-
02
Wisdom & Biblical Discernment
-
03
Education & Skills Development
-
04
Leadership & Servanthood
-
05
Peace & Community Transformation
Christ-Centered Discipleship
Christ First, Then Everything Else
Discipleship is more than learning Christian information. It is a lifelong journey of becoming more like Christ and learning to live faithfully in every area of life: in prayer and in God's Word, in character and relationships, in work, and in service.
As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith. Colossians 2:6-7
Faithfulness · Wisdom · Integrity · Servanthood · Peacebuilding
The Discipleship Journey
One Progression, Followed Every Time
Each step depends on the one before it. Skip a step and the work becomes something else: activity without Christ, knowledge without character, or service without depth.
- Christ Everything begins here, not with a programme.
- Discipleship Scripture, prayer, teaching, and a life shaped by both.
- Character Who she is when it is hard and nobody is watching.
- Equipping Education, skill and stewardship as Christian duties.
- Service Gifts used for others, with humility and courage.
- Multiplication She can now disciple someone else. This is the test.
Women
Women Who Are Equipped
Women's discipleship is the heart of the work: spaces where women grow in faith, wisdom and character, study Scripture together, and learn to carry what they have received into their homes and churches.
Girls
Rooted Before the Storms Come
Girls' discipleship is about preparation: helping girls know Christ, grow in God's Word and build character and discernment early, before the pressures of adult life arrive.
A photograph of a girl is never neutral. We ask permission before photographing a girl and again before publishing, and that permission can be withdrawn at any time.
Education & Skills
Learning as Stewardship
We treat education, digital literacy, vocational development and practical life skills as part of discipleship, not separate from it. Gifts and abilities are entrusted to us, and developing them well is a way of being faithful with what God has given.
Leadership & Service
Leading by Serving
Women in Pakistani churches already carry substantial responsibility, often without training or anyone investing in them. We help women discover their gifts, take responsibility, mentor others, and lead the way Christ did: by serving.
Generational Discipleship
One Generation Discipling the Next
The test of discipleship is whether it multiplies. A woman who has been discipled can disciple her daughter, a younger woman in her church, a neighbour. Our hope is not simply to develop individual women, but to see faith carried faithfully from one generation to the next.
Mature women lead the young ones to be strong in faith and to live wisely.
Rooted in Pakistan
For Christ. For Families. For Pakistan.
We love Pakistan. We believe Christian girls and women can make a meaningful contribution to their families, churches, communities and nation when they are rooted in Christ and equipped to live faithfully.
Based in Islamabad
Stories
Real Lives, Told With Permission
A story about a woman's life belongs to her, so we publish one only when she has chosen to be in it, and we publish no number we cannot trace to a record. The first of those records is below.
The work so far
Five girls have accepted Jesus as their personal saviour.
Mature women are walking alongside them so that they grow strong in faith and learn to live wisely. No names, ages or photographs are published, and none will be.
Identity protected
Names changed and images withheld wherever publication could expose someone to risk. We say when we have done this.
Nothing exaggerated
What happened, at the size it happened. No distress used to raise money, and no implied miracle where there was steady, ordinary faithfulness.
Has NEPSIS teaching or training made a difference to you or your church? We would value hearing it, and telling us never commits you to publication.
Share Your StoryPartner With NEPSIS
There Is a Place for You in This Work
NEPSIS is built through relationships, prayer, service and partnership. Some of the most valuable things you can offer cost nothing at all.
-
Pray
The first way to stand with this work. -
Volunteer
Give your gifts, experience and time. -
Partner as a church
Equip the women in your congregation. -
Give
Support the work, once or monthly.
Prefer to talk? Phone 0337 9433237.
Send us a message
A question about discipleship, partnership, volunteering or giving. We read everything.