Two missions, named for our sons
These names are not brands. They are our children, and the story God wrote through them is the story this ministry repeats, on purpose, for others.
An ark does more than save people from the flood
It carries them through it, and sets them down in a new beginning. That is the shape of this ministry.
Our vision
Persecuted and grieving believers set down in a new beginning: healed, standing, and walking toward the Kingdom of God, in Pakistan first, and wherever the storm finds them.
Our mission
- We call people in. The door of the ark stands open to anyone who suffers.
- We stand with them in the storm. Relief and presence in the worst hour.
- We carry them through healing. Trauma counseling and the toolkit, free.
- We point them to the Kingdom of God. The gospel, spoken where hearts open.
The two missions below divide this one journey between them. Zion Mission calls people in and points them to the Kingdom; Zamuel Mission stands with them in the storm and carries them through healing.
Carrying the hope
Zion is the mountain of God, the city where His presence dwells; in Scripture, Zion is shorthand for the Kingdom of God itself. The name completes our own: Kingdom Ark carries people through the flood, and Zion is the Kingdom it carries them toward. Zion Mission is the heartbeat of this ministry: evangelism, extending that Kingdom one opened heart at a time. We do not shout at closed doors. We serve with trauma care, relief, and presence. Where a heart opens and asks, Zion Mission walks through that open door with the good news of Jesus Christ.
It carries our son Zion's name because the next generation is the reason we go. What we plant now, he and the children of the families we serve will inherit.
And the hour matters. In days like these, days of persecution, loss, and fear, the first words Jesus preached are not distant history: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15). Every trouble this age brings, and every trauma it leaves behind, is ground the Kingdom is already claiming. That is why we go, and why we go now.
God has heard
Zamuel means God has heard. Our son Zamuel was born into the hardest season of our lives. When he went to be with the Lord, the ground went out from under us.
Two things carried us through. God's people stood with us in our lowest moments, lifting us out of financial ruin, refusing to leave until we could stand again. And Shama, his mother, sat with a trauma counselor to grieve. And there, in the very place she went to receive help, God gave her a calling: she trained, she was certified, and today she gives to other wounded families exactly what was given to her.
Zamuel Mission is that story, repeated on purpose. Trauma-informed counseling for the wounds that do not show. Poverty relief for families in their lowest moment. And a commitment, learned from the people who carried us: to stay until they can stand.
God heard us. Through this mission, He hears others. “He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives” (Isaiah 61:1).
The people who carried us did not leave until we could stand. Now that is the standard for how we carry others.
Rev. Shahzad & Ps. Shama Shahzad
A family mission, built to last
Kingdom Ark is carried by a family: Shahzad the pastor, Shama the counselor, and the children whose names the missions bear. Behind the ministry stands a family commitment: to fund it, steward it, and carry it for a generation, so that neither mission ever depends on a single gift or a single year.