Our Trip to India, December 2015
This journal article recounts a 2015 missionary trip to India by two PRC pastors serving on the Foreign Mission Committee, focusing on their visit to Vellore where Reformed churches have been established. The authors provide historical context about Christianity in India and describe the current state of the Reformed faith in the region, emphasizing the privilege and calling of supporting Reformed witness in a predominantly Hindu nation.
There is a legend, that the apostles Thomas and Bartholomew carried the gospel to India. But a more credible statement is that the Christian teacher Pantaenus of Alexandria journeyed to that country about 190, and that in the fourth century churches were found there.1 Although the legend cannot be conclusively proved, it persists. In Chennai (formerly Madras), India, is located the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Thomas, built over the site of what is purported to be Thomas' tomb....
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