Source: Mission Frontiers, September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was springtime in India, and the local Saraswati festival was quickly approaching. A new Hindu friend had invited me to join his family\u2019s celebration at their home for this religious holiday. Saikat had quickly become something of a local host for me, and I was grateful to be invited to his extended family\u2019s gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After everyone had eaten, I told Saikat\u2019s father how much I enjoyed being welcomed by his family and his many relatives. He looked a bit sad as I said this, so I asked if any relative was missing. \u201cOnly my brother,\u201d Saikat\u2019s father replied. \u201cThree years ago, he became a Christian. Since then, he never comes to our home or visits us on any of the holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His words impacted me deeply. Here I was, a follower of Jesus who had left my family and hometown 8,000 miles away to share about Jesus with Hindu people. Yet the Hindu family that I was trying to reach had already experienced the hoped-for miracle that someone in their family might begin to follow Christ. Unfortunately, Saikat\u2019s uncle\u2019s conversion had left only painful wounds for the rest of his family. The gospel of Jesus, at least how Saikat\u2019s family understood it, had been distinctly not good news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/a>. Pray for movements that overcome cultural obstacles and extend from one family member to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This issue of Mission Frontiers<\/a> also includes articles about conversion and transformation among Muslims, Buddhists, and other groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Frontiers, September 2025 It was springtime in India, and the local Saraswati festival was quickly approaching. A new Hindu friend had invited me to join his family\u2019s celebration at their home for this religious holiday. Saikat had quickly become something of a local host for me, and I was grateful to be invited … Continue reading India: Between the First Believer and the Next One<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14145,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions\/14145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}