2013-10-10T12:07:51-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/india/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/11698 2013-10-10T12:07:51-05:00 Videos and animations are a key to sharing the good news in the Majority World. Yet the range of materials in other languages, and especially in a culturally-appropriate format, is shockingly limited. The YWAM School of Animation and Cartooning for Missions has just released an evangelistic animation called Coconuts. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/8016 2012-04-29T09:30:19-05:00 We are honored to release the 2012 version by Mobile Advance of their 5-minute video explaining the opportunities for mobile ministry in the Majority World. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7692 2012-04-05T10:24:44-05:00 The second largest nation in the world is a rich and wonderful mixture of contrasts. Skim through this very clear slide presentation to see just how far digital penetration is transforming Indian society (based on April 2011 stats). http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/6195 2011-11-10T11:48:28-05:00 Mobile phones offer many opportunities. Moses, in AP State, India, has made a photo diary (maybe partly posed) of a chance encounter he was able to use by sharing video clips by Bluetooth with a taxi driver. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/5916 2011-10-12T11:07:52-05:00 Professor Sugata Mitra is the Indian academic who allowed poor Indian children to work out computers for themselves. But here's the challenge. For those kids who will have a web connection through these cheap tablets (or any other route), where will they find evangelistic material that is contextualized for their own culture, language and religion, and assumes they have zero Christian knowledge? http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/nineteenth-century/carey/ 2011-06-27T16:04:12-05:00 No matter how great the obstacles, William Carey expected great things and attempted great things. From Christian History magazine. http://delveintojesus.com/Devotionals/44/Courage.aspx 2011-03-01T16:13:15-05:00 During a recent trip to India, I learned an important lesson in courage from believers who do not let fear of violence or death deter them from spreading the Good News of Jesus. http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/nineteenth-century/ramabai/ 2010-12-10T13:53:09-05:00 The story of the life, intellect, sufferings, and social work of Ramabai, an amazing woman from India, by Keith J. White in Christian History Magazine. http://internetevangelismday.com/bollywood.php 2010-08-07T18:17:28-05:00 The world’s most prolific film output comes from ‘Bollywood' – the complex of studios based mainly in the Bombay (Mumbai) area. Indians love films and Bollywood feeds the demand with some 800 new films each year. Streets and skylines are dominated by huge hoardings advertising the latest films, many of them painted by hand. If you only know Indian cinema from the wonderful sensitive black-and-white films of Satyajit Ray, Bollywood is a different genre: “bigger, funnier, more heart-rending, with more singing, more dancing, more lighting, more loving (apart from, of course, any kissing) than you have ever seen or will ever see again. And that’s just the trailer.” http://lausanneworldpulse.com/lausannereports/966 2008-07-15T14:34:54-05:00 South Asia is home to seventy-three people group clusters. However, the “major” thirty-nine groups represent 1.3 billion people in southern Asia.