The reason I took a break from blogging a couple weeks ago is because a small team of us left on a covert exploratory trip to an unreached part of Northern India (where evangelism is illegal). As a part of our partnership with Team Expansion, we have adopted an unreached region there and are working with an amazing pastor named Avia to bring the gospel to a 1,000,000+ people who have never heard the name of Jesus.
To protect his identity and work we did everything possible to conceal the whereabouts of our trip (telling only the CCV staff and Leadership Team about our trip’s location, geographical references, etc.).
The trip was amazing.
Pastors walked a 5 day’s journey through the mountains and jungle to meet us and dream about what a church-planting partnership could look like.
We saw thousands and thousands of beautiful, gentle and loving people for whom we were the only Western faces they had ever seen in their entire lives. Not a single Christian walked among them.
Our hearts were broken by the need, and we left compelled to come back home and assemble a small army of partners to come alongside the amazingly courageous Christians there to help them share the gospel in the face of extreme ostracization and persecution.
Taking my cue from Alanis Morissette’s song, “Thank You India,” I’m going to share some things I learned about the people there, how my experiences spoke to my own life, and a bit about the opportunity God has presented before our church and our partners.
I would have blogged about it last week, but the combo of the virus I brought home (which made my entire family sick as well) and the jet lag just wiped me out.
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