[HPI note: This is from a proselytizing organization which calls Hindu India “Satan’s Kingdom”. Here is their now strategy.]
INDIA, August 31, 2011 (Mission News Network): A Christian program called Mission India , based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has found a way to connect families in the U.S. with families in India without ever having to board a plane. According to president Dave Strathers, the website mypassporttoindia.org gives Christian children in the United States a ten-step introduction to “what life is like in India,” It also urges them and their families to donate money.
Each dollar raised through this ministry pays for one student to attend a Children’s Bible Club. “We started year-long Bible clubs. Usually, they meet after school, every day. Children in the community gather together and get help with their homework, and they hear Bible stories, learn songs.”
Why focus on children? Stravers explains, “Ministry to children is more of a guerrilla-style attack on Satan’s kingdom because children are the most open to the Gospel. We’ve discovered that when children hear a Bible story, they go right into the home with the Gospel, where an evangelist cannot.”
Last year alone, “My Passport to India” raised enough money to send 284,812 children to Bible Clubs all over the country. Stravers says, “The most common response that I’ve had from parents is: ‘My kids are now praying for India. They would like to give some of their allowance to bring more of these children to Bible clubs, so they can know Jesus.'”