India is closed to missionaries from other countries, but Indian missionaries can travel to any part of our country and preach the Good News. The following facts reflect the need for missionary effort:

• In Bihar, 150 Blocks are without a Christian witness and 75 Taluks in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Haryana have no churches.
• As per the census of 1981, in about one fourth of all the districts in India (114) districts, the Christian population is less than 1000.
• The North Indian states, where more than 600 million people live, contain less than 2% of the Christians: Rajasthan (0.12%), Uttar Pradesh (0.15%), West Bengal (0.6%), Tripura(1.2%), Punjab (1.1%), Orissa (1.9%), Maharastra (1.3%), Gujrath (0.39%), Bihar (1.1%), and Jammu and Kashmir (0.14%).
• The state of Karnataka, where our head quarters is located, has a population of 52,700,000 with 21 districts, 175 taluks, 750 sub-taluks, and 30,000 villages. It is estimated that 29,000 Villages do not have even a single Christian, and most of the villages are completely unreached. Even though 350 Christian organizations have their headquarters in Bangalore, very little evangelistic work is done in the interior of the state. The Protestant population is around 1%, and 60% of the people are illiterate.