Country of the Week: India!
The first country of the week is, not surprisingly, India! While I was over there, I had a chance to spend some time with some Christians from the Delhi Bible Institute, and in addition to giving my friends and me beds for the evening, they told me all about what God was doing in North India. And they shared some really exciting things! So, I thought we could join in what they are doing by praying for them…here is a picture of some girls that attend their summer Bible camp!
About India: Did you know?
- Cows are considered sacred, or holy, in the Hindu religion. Unlike the USA, where we turn them into hamburgers and steaks, cows wander freely around India, even downtown in the middle of traffic!
- During the month of March, many Indians celebrate a Hindu holiday known as Holi. And to celebrate, they walk down the streets of the cities, throwing dye on one another! Some throw colored powder on one another while others throw water balloons filled with colored liquid…talk about a fun and messy party!
How can we pray?
- Believe it or not, there are groups of people in India who have never heard about Jesus before. We can pray that God would send missionaries to those people to let them know about how He loved them enough to send His son Jesus to die for them!
- In India, there is something known as a caste system, where certain people are considered better than others just because they were born into a certain family. People born into a high caste family look down on those born into a low caste family and those in the low castes don’t have the same rights as those in the high caste. We can pray that God, through the Bible, would teach people that everyone is of equal value to Him, because He created us all.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Hey Dan
I was wondering when people throw the dye does it stay on the streets for awhile or come right off?
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 am
I can’t say for sure, because I left for the USA before they cleaned up, but my guess would be that it stays on the streets for a while…they use a lot of dye!
April 7th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Hey Dan, did you meet a lot of people their? Were they nice?
April 8th, 2008 at 7:52 am
I did meet a lot of people there, from taxi drivers to kids trying to sell me things to other Christians at the Delhi Bible Institute. I probably got to know the people at Delhi Bible Institute the best, and they were awesome, making us lunch and letting us crash at their place for two nights…they answered all of our questions and even helped us with some of our travel plans!