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 Last Sunday a group of Indian workers in Singapore planted a church in their home-town of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. This group of Indian Christians, many of whom were recently saved in Singapore, sent their leader Jacob Bethapudi back to their home-town to start a new church. Jacob came to Singapore some five years ago to work Indians are educational high achievers. Their elite universities have such high entry requirements, that it is said that if anyone is rejected by them, he should not worry because he could easily get a scholarship to Harvard or Cambridge! On my recent trip there, I lost count of the number of post-graduate students that I met. Over 80% of Indians are Hindus. Hindus are born into different castes. Though India has many laws to minimize the discriminatory effects of the caste system, discrimination still continues, especially in rural communities. About 20% of Hindus are “untouchables” (or “Dalits”). They are beneath the caste-system, ie, they don’t even belong in a caste as far as India is the largest democracy in the world. Though over 80% of Indians are Hindus, India is a secular country with a constitution that guarantees religious freedom. Furthermore, Indians are by nature extremely tolerant people – though in recent years a few extremist politicians have tried to stir up religious and ethnic hatred. The city of In the city of Hyderabad, I had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of the Hebron Church. This church was started by a godly man called Bakht Singh. I first heard of the godly and amazing ministry of Bakht Singh about 20 years ago but did not get the opportunity to visit him on my I’ve returned from my trip to India. I spent about 10 days visiting about 10 different cities, towns and villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP). It is was a tiring trip of visiting the families of “members” of our church who are working in Singapore, eating, preaching to pastors’ groups and the general I am writing this blog in India. I’ve spent the past 10 days preaching in 6 different churches in 6 different cities/towns. I’d visited India on several occasions in the 80″s. India has changed significantly since my last visit 15 years ago. (especially in the big “high-tech” cities like Hyderabad) – with new modern airports, hotels, |
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