David and the rest of the Brook Hills team are an easygoing crew, so traveling to Mumbai, India to share the gospel in the slums hasn’t caused a lot of stress.

In fact, when Pastor *Lomash showed up that first day on this motorbike to take David across town, David was cool with it. He just didn’t know how – or where – to hold on.

“You don’t have to hold on,” Pastor *Lomash said. “Just balance yourself.”

With that, they took off.

As the pastor sped through the streets and highways, David took in the scenes around him. Mumbai is home to nearly twenty million people. Its buildings run the gamut from high-rise, modern office complexes to lean-to shelters with plastic coverings. Transportation ranges from luxury vehicles to crowded buses to motorcycles and the ever-popular rickshaw.

“We took a 45-minute ride on that bike through the city,” David said. “I kept thinking, ‘Here I am in Mumbai surrounded by close to twenty million people without Christ.’”

As the masses flashed by, it wasn’t the crowds that David noticed most. It was the individual faces.

“I could see the faces of people everywhere,” David said, “and I just started praying for them.”

Later, after the motorbike ride and his walk through the slums, David talked about being confronted by the enormous physical and spiritual needs.

“I was overwhelmed by the urgent need on the ride through the city,” David recalled, “… and then I got to see the gospel hope in some of the homes we visited.”

Three of the people that David visited are new believers who were just baptized last week.

“There were these new believers and the joy that Pastor Lomash had. I just got to see the gospel hope in that slum,” David concluded.

Gospel hope. That’s what it’s all about.

*Names changed