CTK India

Just recently I had the privilege to spend several days (Nov25-Dec11) in India to witness first hand what God is up to through this movement we call CTK. I was really encouraged by the dedication of the people there to the faith. Also had some very powerful experiences of God's presence there.
Here's just one:

We attended a ground breaking ceremony for a CTK India Bible College in the state of Andre Pradesh near Hyderabad. The land that we were on is across the street from a CTK orphanage. So of course the kids from the orphanage were the main attendees at the ceremony. During the ceremony an overwhelming sense of God's presence surrounded us and myself/traveling companions were all moved to tears at the sheer magnitude and awesomeness of the moment in history that we were about to witness. If only words could describe it without sounding cheesy... we didn't really know what we were getting into until we arrived on the site and begin to take in all the facts and realities around us.

We were nestled on this lonely dusty little plot of land in the middle of nowhere. It just happens to be situated directly next to a major freeway which serves as a main thoroughfare between to major districts in the state. Since the purchase of that land the government decided to undergo a massive freeway expansion project. This improvement greatly increased the value of the property and also influenced the seller to try to reacquire the land (sorry, too late.) The Christ the King banner in this location will be seen by countless people and cars passing by each day. What a huge calling card to the mission of CTK in this part of the world.

During the ceremony I began to think about all the students and faculty that would one day call this college home. I had the sudden realization that we were sitting before many of the potential Bible college students and future leaders of the CTK movement in India. All of the bare footed, dirt poor orphans before me had been completely discarded and forgotten by their families and society. They were valueless to their world. But God in his great compassion saw to it to engineer a future, a hope, and a purpose for each one. This Bible college was for them. Most of them were too young to even realize it.

Looking out at them I cried out with thankfulness for God's goodness in the epiphany of my own orphan-ness before him and what He has done in my life.