In the picture below, you will see our India ministry partners alongside six young people with whom they were able to celebrate baptism.
The young people who were baptized live a region of known for worship of a particularly “powerful” native goddess. Locals worship the goddess with animal sacrifice — to the extent that thousands of animals are offered up to her each month.
In great contrast, the new Jesus-centered pilgrims you see in the picture have come to know and believe and understand that “[Jesus] did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.” (Hebrews 10:12)