Character Profile:

[BANG´guls] / noun / originally comes from a Hindi word and means rigid bracelets that have no clasp.

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Bangles is the friendliest cobra you could ever hope to meet. She comes from the northwestern part of India. Though her family used to follow Hindu practices and believed in millions of gods, they now know that there is only one God and that He sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins.

Bangles knows that she has received salvation through accepting Jesus into her heart, but most of the people she sees and talks to every day have never even heard about Jesus. Bangles wants all of these people to hear about Jesus. That is why she wears her colored bangles everywhere she goes. They symbolize how all of us have sin in our lives, but through the blood of Christ we can be free from our sin and go to Heaven when we die.

Most people in her home country of India need to hear about Jesus just like Bangles and her family did. They have no idea how they can be saved from their sins. Many people have never even had the chance to hear about Jesus. Bangles tells everyone she can, but there are many more people than she can reach on her own. She needs help to let everyone in India know about the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

Northwest India

Northwest India’s varied landscape changes from vast mountains to deserts and contains many of India’s large cities. The people of North India, unlike those of South India, are predominantly Indo-Aryan. This gives them a very different culture from their southern neighbors.

Cobra

Cobras are poisonous snakes living in the tropical and desert regions of Asia and Africa. They kill their prey, usually small rodents and birds, by injecting poison through their nearly hollow fangs. The snake will only attack a human if provoked or in other extreme circumstances which threaten its survival.

Hinduism

Hindus believe in millions of gods that they have to worship to protect them. They also worship these gods to build good karma. Karma is a very important concept in Hinduism. It is like a score being kept of every good or bad thing a person does. Hindus don’t believe that life is over when a person dies. They believe that everyone is reborn again as something else. This is called reincarnation. The only way to escape from the cycle of reincarnation is to build up enough good karma (to do enough good things) to earn salvation.

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