Mr. Rameshbhai S. Raut, Gujarat

While modernized countries might promote reading and writing as sacrosanct, here in the interior villages of western India, little value is placed upon it. I therefore grew up like my tribal family before me, mostly illiterate and often dumb-founded by the topics we heard being discussed as we sat around the village camp fire at night.

An unexpected turn of events, one that I never dreamed of

Mr. Shankar Gowda, Karnataka

Shankar was born and brought up in an orthodox religious family. After his studies he took up a job and began to work. One day while attending an open air crusade, he heard the Gospel message for the very first time.

The Word of God penetrated his life and he understood that Jesus Christ is God and Savior. He went back home with a new conviction but now the question was: who would guide him into spiritual maturity.

Ramvati, Bihar

“Frankly I was tired to R death of my husband going off into the fields to labor all day long. At the end of it, he’d spend all his wages to get really drunk…”

“Why is the food cooked so badly,” he hollered wildly, the sound of the man’s rage shattering the stillness of the night, waking up the children.