For fourteen days, plain vanilla people like you and me walked the streets and slums of Mumbai sharing the Gospel, equipping believers, and marveling at the power of God at work in the lives of ordinary people. If you joined late, you can still read about all that God has done by searching for stories that appeal to you – stories of hope, forgiveness, healing, salvation, equipping, and many others. Click “Tags” in the sidebar to locate stories by topic.
When the hand of God moves through ordinary people to touch the life of another something extraordinary happens. The natural becomes supernatural and hearts are forever changed.
Agni* is 12-year-old boy who is innovative and musically gifted but sadly also illiterate. His mother is a housewife, his father an auto rickshaw driver. A poor family, they live in a small, single-room home in the middle of a slum. Piles of trash border the slum where women dig deep, hoping to find something [...]
Arriving in a lower class area of north Mumbai, we climbed a steep, bright blue steel staircase to meet with *Shama, a local believer. As we ascended to the front of her home, an area the size of a fire escape, Shama and her neighbor, *Ranee, greeted us on the crowded stoop. Ranee’s countenance was [...]
“Fortunes told! I can tell your future! Fortunes told!” called the small Indian man as he made his way through the streets of a slum outside of Mumbai, India.
“Who is this guy?” asked Spencer, a member of the Brook Hills team that is sharing the Good News in Mumbai this week.
The team was sitting on the porch of a small house in a slum area. It was late in the afternoon, and the team had been invited to the home for tea. Inside, the women were building a fire to boil the water. Outside, the men visited on the small porch. A curious crowd of onlookers quickly began to form, and it was then that the strange little man approached the crowd, offering to tell their fortunes.
From the street to a roof top, Chet Palladino shares his experience joining a group of local believers in worship. To listen, click here: From the roof
“I am taking you to the red-light district,” our translator says, “so we must pray because there is much spiritual battle there.” We pray, then dodge auto rickshaws and taxis and goats, crossing the main road. We step around the corner, into a lane and I see them: women in front of narrow doorways on a dark street. Some just sitting and staring, others taking care of daily tasks—cooking rice, washing clothes. Ordinary things. We stop to talk with them, asking if they know of Jesus and would they like to hear His story, asking how we can pray for them.
I’m sitting here at the end of a day of ministry here in Mumbai after traveling in and around India for nearly five years. And all I can keep saying is: “These kind’s of things don’t happen to me…ordinarily.” Our translator Rashid* took my friend and I to a slum where he knew a woman [...]
