INDIA

  • India’s population will be 1 billion, 205 million – which is 1/6 of the world’s population.
  • Bombay is the largest city, nearly 18 million.
  • One-third of Bombay’s population lives in slums.
  • The capital city is Delhi – 11.3 million.
  • One-fourth of India’s population earns less than 40 cents per day.
  • India has a higher rate of malnutrition among children under the age of three than any other country in the world.
  • Approximately 35% of the population are considered food insecure.
  • Prostitution/sex slave industry is huge in Bombay.  Estimates of 60,000 prostitutes in a 10 square mile radius in the red light district.
  • Forty percent of India are called the “untouchables”, the outcasts/forgotten.

CHRIST THE ROCK’S INVOLVEMENT 

  • Short-term trips.
  • Teaching conferences for pastors.
  • Women’s conferences.
  • Working with feeding programs.
  • Helping at orphanages and with rescued infants.
  • Missionary support – Murli & Usha Menon.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

 

PRAY

  • For focus and direction regarding our involvement – the needs are so great and opportunities are numerous.
  • For our missionaries and their ministries.
  • For the persecuted church in India.