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In 1954 a Pakistani journalist reported that “Along with American wheat some clergymen have been imported into Pakistan and, whereas Larkana has not yet received a single grain of the wheat, it has already been allotted three clergyman.”

Jars of Clay tells the sometimes heart wrenching, sometimes hilarious story of those three clergymen, their families and the others that joined them to live and work in the desert of Southern Pakistan.  Their generation had come of age during the Great depression and World War II. Now they were among the thousands of young Americans who took up the challenge of living and working in the most remote and challenging regions of the world.  The author and her husband were among those pioneers.  In 1954, with two other families, they moved to the Sindh desert in southern Pakistan.  Others followed and together over three decades the built schools, cared for the sick, preached, taught, and raised families alongside their Muslim neighbors.  Theirs is a story of grit, faith and the remarkable achievements of the ordinary people used by God in extraordinary ways.