Fred and Margaret Stock
8 Businessman's Colony
Rahim Yar Khan
Punjab 64200
Pakistan
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The Reverend Frederick Stock and his wife Margaret have been Presbyterian missionaries in Pakistan since 1956. In their most recent assignment, as long-term volunteers, they live in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan, and serve as Bible teachers and literacy coordinators, teaching small retreat groups in three-day sessions each month. They make village trips to encourage Pakistani evangelists and supervise several adult literacy centers. The Stocks work in partnership with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mission in Pakistan.

The Stocks began their ministry in Pakistan immediately following Fred’s graduation from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1956. From 1957 to 1979, he was the "district missionary" of Sargodha Presbytery, part of the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan. In that position, he encouraged evangelism, developed stewardship, and assisted pastors at 20 congregations.

From 1971 to 1979, Fred taught at the Bible Training Institute in Hyderabad, Pakistan, teaching Punjabi and tribal students and doing research on how to reach tribal people most effectively. He then became a village evangelist with the Kutchi Kohli tribe through the Church of Pakistan from 1980 to 1986. He served as pastor of the Kunri Ashram Church in Sindh, seconded to the Church of Pakistan, from 1987 to 1997.

Fred began working in his current capacity as Bible teacher and literacy coordinator in 1998.

Frederick traces his commitment to mission work back to his days as a student. "While at the University of California in Berkeley, I attended First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, then pastored by Dr. Robert Munger," he says. "Missions were strongly stressed with special missionary-emphasis weeks at which many missionaries spoke. During one of these I felt challenged to missionary service."

Then, in 1955, he married Margie, the daughter of United Presbyterian missionaries to the Sudan. "We were led to apply for work overseas in evangelism with the United Presbyterian Church, which assigned us to work in Pakistan as evangelistic missionaries," Fred says. "They sent us to Pakistan in the fall of 1956."

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Fred and Margaret Stock

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Margie's primary role from 1957 to 1970, she says, was as a mother and hospitality provider for the pastors and teachers with whom Fred was working. Their family often went on village tours to supervise schools, and Margie was active in various women’s groups. Prior to that, Margie taught second grade in a school near Princeton, New Jersey, in 1955 and 1956. She taught science and psychology at the Girls’ College in Cairo, Egypt, in 1952-53 and taught at Schutz School for Missionaries’ Children in Assiut, Egypt, from 1950 to 1952.

Margie’s roots in mission go even farther back than her childhood in Sudan. Her grandparents, three aunts, and an uncle were missionaries in India and Pakistan with the United Presbyterian Church of North America. "I have been surrounded by missionaries and mission emphasis all my life," she says. "I have always felt called to overseas mission, as have my four siblings who have all gone into mission work overseas."

Frederick holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California in Berkeley and another one from the Biblical Seminary of Sacred Theology, now New York Seminary, in New York. He received his master’s degree in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1956. He also holds a master’s degree in missiology from Fuller School of World Mission in Pasadena, California.

The Fuller School of World Mission honored Frederick as "Alumnus of the Year" in 1988. He and Margie published a book called People Movements in the Punjab, about the history of the church in Pakistan, in 1974.

Margie earned a bachelor’s degree from Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in 1950. She also holds a master’s degree in religious education from the Biblical Seminary of Sacred Theology (now New York Seminary) in New York, New York.

Fred is a minister member of the Presbytery of the Pacific in Los Angeles, California. He and Margie attend the Pakistan Christian Fellowship in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan.

Fred and Margie have four grown children. Paul Frederick Stock with his wife and four children live in Mirpurkhas, Pakistan. He develops audio-visual materials with emphasis on indigenous music. Ruth with her husband, Mark Stoscher, and four children run a Christian camping program in Erseke, Albania. Lois and her husband, Kyle Scott, and three children are also in Erseke, Albania, with the purpose of supervising a small orphanage while Kyle finishes a masters degree from Fuller Seminary. Sara with her husband David Treece and one son are involved in community development projects in Central Asia. In a moving letter of July 22, 2002, they tell about the death by drowning on July 13 of their oldest son, Dale, a missionary in Pakistan. His widow Nicky and two children are living in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Birthdays:
Fred: April 3
Margaret: December 17