The best word to describe India is “mosaic.” The mosaic of languages includes several hundred languages and dialects. The hundreds of people groups make up a mosaic of different cultures. Everywhere you go in India, you see a mosaic of colorful clothing: graceful saris, flowing salwar kameezes, bright turbans and white dhotis. The landscape makes up a mosaic of soaring mountains, deserts, fertile plains and thick jungles. There is a mosaic of rural and urban, agriculture and technology, rich and poor. India truly is a land of diversity.
India is one of the most spiritual places in the world. The religious mosaic includes Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and Parsis. India is also one of the most lost places in the world. There are still 325 people groups with no known evangelical believers and no one engaging them with the Good News of Jesus Christ. The huge task of reaching these millions of people is overwhelming at times.
There is still so much work left to do. Yet, God is at work in India! Daily He is drawing people to Himself. He genuinely loves each of the billion-plus people of India.
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Articles about India:
- Although illegal, temple prostitution is still alive in parts of India, Christian worker says »
- Caring for a beggar man opens doors to share the Gospel »
- Until They Are Reached »
- Reaching India’s IT through stories »
- FIRST PERSON: “Excuse me. Do you worship the living God?” »
- Lessons learned via planes, trains and hikes »
- Fate of village changes from abject poverty to earning an income »
- Team member leads Hindu to Christ »
- Nepalese believers reach out »
- Baptists minister after earthquake in India »
- A Night of Prayer for Muslims »
- Students at Orphanage in India Forced to Pay Idol Worship Fee »
- Art imitates life in India »
- An older woman shares hope in the brothels of Mumbai, India »
- Fletcher Lonsdale takes the Gospel to the Indian stage »
- A South Asian Summer: Children hear about Jesus by learning to act like sheep »
- A South Asian Summer: The Gospel is for sharing with others, but also for our daily lives »
- Indians ask ‘why’ following 6.9-magnitude quake »
- Their eyes were watching Facebook »
- Monsoon Summer: Justice is a fight »
- Monsoon Summer: Really Look »
- Monsoon Summer: The Art of the Bobble »
- Monsoon Summer: Not Too Spicy? »
- Monsoon Summer: Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood »
- Monsoon Summer: An Item of Many Uses »
- Monsoon Summer: Train Ride »
- Monsoon Summer: Ode to India »
- Monsoon Summer: Bon Appetit! »
- Monsoon Summer: Two Indias »
- Monsoon Summer: “Honk Horn Please!” »
- Monsoon Summer: Caught in the Rain »
- Monsoon Summer: Faces of India »
- Monsoon Summer: Speaking Like a Native »
- Micah Watson uses music to stir hearts toward missions »
- One Week in Mumbai: “I realized how callous my heart had become…” »
- Multiple Explosions in Mumbai »
- FIRST PERSON: A God-fearing taxi driver »
- Mumbai: City of Seekers »
- Mumbai Virtual Prayer Walk »
- Women reach women through henna and Bible stories »
- Christ proclaimed among India’s “fly prostitutes” »
- Oklahoma women share God’s love, build relationships with strip club employees »
- One woman shares God’s love with India’s prostitutes »
- FIRST PERSON: Henna: Beyond boundaries, across barriers and among women »
- FIRST PERSON: Silk rugs, carved furniture and a woman who didn’t know »
- Women help women see Jesus in spite of their circumstances »
- Calif. student volunteers use henna storying in India »
- David Platt on Philosophical, Functional Universalism »
- God’s purposes transcend ours »
- A student volunteer shares the Gospel in a silk shop »
- Student drinks mango juice with a beggar at a train station »
- Student stands firm in face of persecution »
- IMB Trustees train and encourage in South Asia, despite challenges »
- IMB trustees travel to South Asia, washing feet and sharing the Good News »
- World Water Day, North Carolina Sunday school funds well in India »
- A missionary kid learns that when the unexpected happens, God provides »
- FIRST PERSON: A Kolkata pastor shares about struggles »
- National pastors and international workers struggle together to build the church in Kolkata »
- FIRST PERSON: One Kolkata pastor’s reckless love »
- FIRST PERSON: A nurse shares physical and spiritual lessons »
- Report in India Blames Attacks on Conversions to Christianity Panel absolves Hindu nationalists in Karnataka state. »
- Touching the Untouchables: Volunteers minister to India’s lower caste »
- Human Needs Virtual Prayer Walk »
- Knoxville volunteer team uses medical clinics, prayer to share Christ »
- New believers learn God uses their testimonies to change lives »
- Student volunteer experiences God among children who have nothing »
- Bible stories lead Indian women to share the Gospel with their neighbors »
- India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution »
- Pray for South Asia »