{"id":4473,"date":"2014-04-16T08:54:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2014-04-16T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:54:01","slug":"india-eunuchs-coming-to-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4473","title":{"rendered":"INDIA: Eunuchs Coming to Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Mission Network News<\/a>, April 11, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Eunuchs. Castrated males. There are about 1 million of them in India. Eunuchs are ignored by society. They form their own communities. Are people reaching them with the gospel? Are they ignored by Christians, too?\u00a0A worker with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siutraining.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Scriptures in Use (SIU)<\/a> says\u00a0yes, but not any more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We introduce storytelling to cultures that are non-literate, or what we call traditional oral learners. &#8230; Jesus told stories. He told parables. He allowed the story of the parable to speak to the hearts of the individual listener.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[SIU&#8217;s] India partner became what&#8217;s called a &#8220;well-wisher&#8221; to the eunuchs in a community in Orissa State. As the relationships were established, the storytelling began. It started with 14 [participants]. The stories began with the Fall and continued through to the New Testament. &#8220;For three days we shared stories and then asked questions about the stories. At the end of the three days, we finally got to the Gospels. When it was done, all 14 of them accepted the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a one-time thing. &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing some significant changes in them personally and then this desire to begin, in some way, to share their faith with fellow eunuchs and their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/eunuchs-coming-christ-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Following India&#8217;s ongoing elections? You might be interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2014\/april\/indias-christians-shrug.html\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">this article<\/a> about how Indian Christians view them (Christianity Today).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, April 11, 2014 Eunuchs. Castrated males. There are about 1 million of them in India. Eunuchs are ignored by society. They form their own communities. Are people reaching them with the gospel? Are they ignored by Christians, too?\u00a0A worker with\u00a0Scriptures in Use (SIU) says\u00a0yes, but not any more. &#8220;We introduce storytelling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INDIA: Eunuchs Coming to Christ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","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=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}