Planting Churches

More about the Bridge of Hope

For the majority of India's 300 million Dalits ("Untouchables") and another 300 million low-caste people, very little has changed since the nation became a democracy over 50 years ago and declared equal human rights for all citizens.

BOHThe reason is not an inadequate constitution, but a prevalent 3,000-year-old religious belief system that determines the value of an individual and what he can do in life based on the caste in which he was born. And from this caste there is no escape possible, regardless of what he may achieve in life.

Illiteracy keeps millions of people on the Indian subcontinent steeped in desperate poverty and holds them prisoners to slave labour, debt bondage and exploitation by those in higher levels of society.

The Lord Jesus, on the other hand, loves all people equally. To Him they are so precious that He died for the salvation of every person on earth. Whoever believes in Him receives eternal life and becomes a son or daughter of God.

BOHToday this truth is transforming the lives of even the most downtrodden and giving them dignity, hope and the strength to change the world around them. In places previously resistant and sometimes hostile to the Gospel message, hearts are opening to the love of Christ.

How is this happening? In the most amazing and unexpected way-through schools for the children of these impoverished and oppressed. For example, nearly 400 believers worship today at a newly planted church in the Indian state of Maharashtra because of one school that was established in their village.

Looking back over the past few years, we can see how God has led us to begin a new phase of ministry. His opening of doors to closed villages is far from over. It has barely begun!

 

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