Bannu in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan Chained in a small, dark room, which doubled as a toilet – that's how a doctor and his driver from Bannu in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province were forced to spend Christmas.
Yet Dr Reginald says he was sustained by dreams and visions from God throughout the ordeal, during which his family refused to press for government assistance, instead relying purely on prayer support from around the world.
On 8 December the two men were on the road that skirts the tribal areas that cover the famously porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
They were on their way to a weekly outreach clinic in Dera Ismail Khan on the banks of the Indus about 125km from Bannu.
Suddenly, at a small settlement about 100km from Bannu, a vehicle cut across their path. Armed men leapt out and hijacked Dr Reginald’s hospital vehicle.
Dr Reginald and Khalid, his driver, were dragged into the back of the vehicle, blindfolded and covered with a sheet. Their kidnappers threatened that if they shouted the vehicle would explode, while the new driver sped off across rough, jolting roads.
When the vehicle eventually stopped the two captives, still blindfolded were put in leg irons and chained to charpoys in a small, dirty and very dark room. Just a few holes at the top of the wall let in a little light during the day.
Lizards and a snake crawled across the roof, which was made of jute mats covered in soot, making the soot fall on the faces of the men below.
The kidnappers unchained one foot of each man for a few minutes morning and evening to wash and relieve themselves, in the same room, causing an unbearable stench.
In the winter cold, the iron shackles made their legs and feet feel frozen day and night yet Dr Reginald still managed to get to his knees to pray. He said that while praying on his knees he felt the cold ground changing to warm.
At namaz (Muslim prayer time) they were told to make their ablutions and pray. But Dr Reginald explained he was a Christian and would not say namaz. He was told that he was being invited to accept Islam.
On the first Friday, a man came and told him to accept Islam and say namaz, but Dr Reginald refused. The following week a maulvi (Muslim priest) came to his room four or five times a day to preach Islam. He was also made to listen to some religious cassettes.
After several days, he was taken blindfold to another place and made to wear a shalwar kameez over his own clothes.
He realised a video was being made. When his blindfold was taken off, he was confronted by a few men sitting in front of him directing their Kalashnikovs in his direction.
At his side he could hear a tapping sound and he turned to see a man tapping a dagger on his palm. He was again invited to become a Muslim.
When he refused his captors reminded him that they could slaughter him or whip him and keep him in prison for life. They kept asking him further questions and trying to force him to convert to Islam. Finally he asked them where it says in the Qur’an that a Muslim should force someone to convert. They remained silent and the subject was not mentioned again.
The kidnappers then tried to force Dr Reginald to raise 20 million rupees (£170,000), knowing that some of the doctor’s family lived abroad and that the Bannu hospital was supported by foreign agencies.
At their dictation Dr Reginald wrote a letter to the hospital setting out their demand. But he assured the men that there was no possibility of the money being raised.
Dr Reginald says he prayed that God would take his life instead of so many more people’s lives if the ransom were paid by the hospital.
He also says that God gave him a repeated vision of a globe, which grew bigger with faces appearing on it, known and unknown, in thousands, praying for him.
Although they lost a lot of weight and were kept in poor conditions the two men did not get ill and Dr Reginald says he kept his spirits up by praying and singing psalms and Christian songs for up to 20 hours a day.
The release of the two men finally came on the first Wednesday of the new year at about 2.30pm. Three other men arrived and told them that they were being released. They were offered food, but Dr Reginald explained that he was fasting. This was honoured and food was prepared for when he broke his fast.
They were handed back their belongings and taken to their vehicle blindfolded. When they arrived at their vehicle, Khalid, the driver, took charge of the vehicle and drove to Bannu, with their captors following in their own vehicle all the way to the gates of the hospital. Here they were finally left alone and Dr Reginald could call his wife and be reunited with his family.
Dr Reginald and his wife are now touring throughout Pakistan and gathering Christians to share his testimony.