Covenant Evangelical Reformed Church (Fellowship) in Kolkata, India
This journal article by Andrew Lanning provides a vivid, descriptive account of a Reformed Christian fellowship meeting in Kolkata, India, offering insight into missionary work and church planting efforts in a non-Western context. The piece combines ethnographic detail about Indian urban life with a focus on a small gathering of Indian Christians worshipping together, illustrating the practical challenges and realities of establishing Reformed churches in cross-cultural missionary settings.
On a street named after Mahatma Gandhi, it is hot. The deteriorating asphalt radiates the heat of the sun, which shines down on a scene with a thousand moving parts. The traffic is a wonder, and menacing to an outsider: huge steel public buses, hulking Ambassador cabs, cars, cars, cars, and cars, but even more motorcycles, including an army of green and yellow motorcycle taxis; all racing, weaving, dodging, detouring their winding way around and past each other on this hot, narrow road....
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