God's Not Dead! He is ALIVE!

India- God’s Not Dead! 

(January 2014)

I was asked to prepare chapel lessons for the school children at the orphanage were we would be staying.   Having worked as a Children’s Pastor for may years- this was a comfortable role for me.   I looked through several lessons and skits that I have done in the past and decided upon the 10 commandments-  I must say I didn’t really think about the irony of such lessons in a majority- of previous Hindu Children.  

Once in India I saw Idols- everywhere   It is said there are over 33 million Hindu Gods   They were in car windows, on the side of the road, in homes and businesses-    All of a sudden the lesson of only one God and no Idols was very real-  I didn’t have to make the leap of how some people worship cars, or sports, or TV stars as their idols-  In this culture- there are idols!

The lessons went VERY well and the children were very engaged  This setting was a Christian School with hundreds of kids-  However, most had come from Hindu backgrounds and had been converted at the school.  They often visit  their relatives  who still worship idols.  

As I was leading the kids in a upbeat version of the old ‘ Gods-Not-Dead- He is Alive “ song- my heart was so full to see theses former Hindu kids proclaiming with their voice at the top of their lungs-  That their god is not  dead and that he is alive.   The future of India is in the hands of such children.    And to know that you know that you know that you do serve the one true living God-   Brings such Peace and joy