I grew up in the city of Bangalore in South India, living in the campus of a well known Christian English school where my father was the principal. I was fortunate to be part of a vibrant church with plenty of opportunity for the youth in terms of music, bible study, camps, fellowships and the like. The church also sponsored a fair number of missionaries to very rural parts of the country, who periodically gave reports of the work they were involved with, whether in church planting, bible translation or medical ministry.