True Christians comprise no more than one-half of one percent of the entire population of India.

Some of the great missionaries who have labored in India include...

William Carey

Amy Carmichael

Alexander Duff

Silas Fox

Praying Hyde

Henry Martyn

C T Studd

The church on the right was once pastored by the great missionary C T Studd and attended at certain seasons of the year by Amy Carmichael.

The faithfulness of India's believers has often stirred the hearts of God's people around the world.  The song "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus" was actually written by a Christian in India who pledged his loyalty to Christ though his family turned away from him and his friends forsook him.  Even the tune is attributed to a folk melody of India.

The Apostle Thomas preached the Gospel in India and died as a martyr near the present day city of Chennai (formerly called Madras).  Some have attempted to dismiss the account by speaking of it as being nothing more that legends propagated by the Catholic church.  To be sure, Catholicism has added its embellishments to the story, but their exaggerations cannot rob India's history of this early Gospel witness.  The great explorer Marco Polo visited the grave of Thomas while he was in India.  The great significance of Marco Polo's account lies in the fact that he visited India before the Catholic missionaries arrived.  It was known that Thomas had come to India before Catholicism invented her distorted versions of the story!!