Bakht Singh, another foreign student who had a tremendous impact on discipling his own country is Bakht Singh. Raised in a Sikh family in Punjab of India, he came to Canada as an engineering student at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1929. He was befriended by a Christian couple, John and Edith Hayward, who invited him to live with them. They gave him a Bible, and their Christian lifestyle and testimony were influential in leading Bakht Singh to trust in Christ.
OSM photo shows Bakht Singh on one of his visits to the U.S. sponsored by OSM in the 1950s.
When he returned to India, his father met him in Bombay and demanded that he give up his �foreign religion.� When Bakht Singh said Christ was his only reason for living, his father disinherited him.
Bahkt Singh began going house to house witnessing for Christ and discipling those who confessed Christ. Known for his meticulous Bible teaching, he trained scores, then hundreds, then thousands of disciples, who carried his message and method throughout India. Some say Bakht Singh and his disciples were responsible for planting 2,000 churches.
Two of them were instrumental in leading Prem Pradhan to the Lord in northern India. Prem was a Nepalese member of the Indian Army, who after his conversion returned to his homeland to sow the gospel. He is considered by some to be the first Nepalese missionary to establish a beachhead for the kingdom of God in what was then known as the world�s only Hindu kingdom.
Bill Bray�s job is to locate and raise up more John Sungs and Bakht Singhs, and even lesser infantry personnel in God�s army.
Source : http://www.worldchristianministries.org/printed.asp?active_page_id=325
No comments:
Post a Comment