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Lingayats of India: Missionary Marty Hunter* and a local Christian leader train other Indians to share their faith and teach others to do the same. As part of one training session, small groups role-play as if they are sharing their faith in a home setting. *Name changed Lingayats of India: training session in India, local leadership trainers teach others to become trainers, too, as they share their faith and disciple Christians in villages. Lingayats of India: Marty Hunter*, strategy coordinator for India's Lingayat people, and a local Christian leader lead training sessions for other Christians. To protect their identities, their faces are left out of the photo. *Name changed Lingayats of India: After a training session, Indian believers break into small groups and role-play as if they were sharing their faith in a home setting. Lingayats of India: Christians in a southern Indian village two hours from the closest city are trained to visit homes and share the gospel. During the training, they listen to a lecture and then practice sharing with each other. Lingayats of India: After one training session, trainers and trainees review notes. Lingayats of India: This Indian believer shares the gospel and teaches others to do the same. Lingayats of India: At a Lingayat temple in southern India, a Hindu priest receives worshipers and blesses their offerings. Lingayats of India: Christian leadership trainers report progress made in their villages and develop strategies for the future. The brochures in the foreground have been developed to distribute among the Lingayat people. Muslims of West Bengal, India: Julian and Kim Scarbrough, a newlywed couple from South Carolina, delayed their honeymoon to save up for a trip to India. But they didn't go to see the Taj Mahal and other tourist spots; they took the train to help missionary Carter Bolin share the love of Christ in rural villages of West Bengal. Muslims of West Bengal, India: Carter Bolin* (left) talks Islam and the Christian gospel with Muslims near a mosque in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, West Bengal's capital. One in four Bengalis is a Muslim. As a missionary strategy coordinator. Bolin aims to train Bengali church planters to reach all 27 million of them with the good news of Christ. *Name changed Muslims of West Bengal, India: Sajal Sarkar of the Bible Society of India is excited about a new “Muslim friendly” edition of the Bible and other materials the society produces. Muslims of West Bengal, India: “Jacob” (left), a Muslim-background follower of Christ, and missionary Carter Bolin listen as “Abu,” an Islamic scholar, reads from the Scriptures. A dedicated seeker of truth, Abu has found it in the Word of God – and now he's sharing it with other scholars and seekers. Muslims of West Bengal, India: A Bengali village boy, his gaze full of keen curiosity, symbolizes the yearning of the human heart for God. Bengali Muslims – many of whom follow a form of “folk Islam” that incorporates Hindu and animist beliefs -- hunger for the truth most have never heard about through Jesus Christ. Muslims of West Bengal, India: “Victor Ormsby” (right), a Southern Baptist worker, visits a Bengali Muslim village to talk about what the Quran (Islam's holy book) says about Jesus Christ. That serves as a bridge to the Old and New Testaments – which the Quran commands good Muslims to read. A lost city in India: A woman in India reads Scripture during a church service. First Baptist Church, Powell, Tenn., hopes to help more people in this city trust in God's Word. Most have never seen or read a Bible; many go to temples to worship idols and spirits. A lost city in India: Jay Adler* of First Baptist Church, Powell, Tenn., preaches at a church service in India during a recent missions trip. This particular congregation is one of the few evangelical churches in this city of 1.9 million. *Name changed A lost city in India:A young boy in an Indian city prays to accept Jesus Christ into his life after Jay Adler* of First Baptist Church, Powell, Tenn., shared the gospel during a Sunday morning church service. *Name changed A lost city in India: A woman worships at a church service held in a school building in India. Through relationships they're building, volunteers from First Baptist Church of Powell, Tenn., hope to spread the gospel throughout the city. A lost city in India: Jay Adler* (left), a member of First Baptist Church of Powell, Tenn., visits with a pastor and his wife in a city of 2 million in India. Adler and his volunteer team recently traveled to India to develop relationships with more evangelicals in the city. *Name changed A lost city in India: A group of Christians in an Indian city gather for a weekly Bible study. A team from First Baptist Church of Powell, Tenn., hopes to partner with them in hopes of starting house churches that will spread throughout the city. A lost city in India: A group of Hindus worship an idol, located along a "holy river" in an Indian city, by pouring milk over it. Hundreds of Hindus gather at the river each day to worship in temples, bathe in the river and pray to their gods. A lost city in India: A Hindu man spends his morning along a river, where many worship their gods. Others, like this man, put their faith into idol worship and tradition, hoping to please their gods. Many Hindus live in poverty with no hope of ever escaping. India: Varanasi street scene. Bangladesh: IMB volunteer Larry Kemp, with the translation assistance of Luke Biswas, witnesses to all the spectators who came to see the Americans checking the water wells. Bangladesh: A church tutorial class for the children of Sonamapara village, where the kids are taught Bible stories. India: Bathing in the Ganges River in Varanasi. Hindus believe that bathing in the Ganges will wash their sins away. India: At a tiny Hindu shrine, a worshiper stops to pray. India: IMB volunteer Kim Penrod prays for the monks as they meditate on the temple grounds at Sarnath near Varanasi, India. Bangladesh: Heavy manual labor is the mainstay of the Bangladesh workforce. Bangladesh: Portrait of Nazim Uddin, a worker at one of the Baptist -sponsored food-for-work projects in Gargari Union. Gopalgonj, Bangladesh: Tom Thurman prays during a service at Ghosherchar Baptist Church in Gopalgonj, Bangladesh. Bangladesh: Women getting water from a well outside of the Sonamapara village. Southern Baptists’ money helped build this well. Bangladesh: A student camp retreat for young people from the hill tribes. Roy and Jenna McIntyre lead the camp in teaching, singing and praising. Bangladesh: Bengali men crossing the Ganges river. Bangladesh: Gloria Thurman in a women’s prayer meeting. The young girl in the stripes (who is reading) is Dipali Bala. Bangladesh: Gloria Thurman tending to a wound on a Gopalgonj man.     Bangladesh: While at the student’s retreat, Oneil Tripura practices his storying techniques of the story of Joseph.