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Sent to the Hard Places: A Missions India Gospel Story
By Heather Austin
In February 2026, I traveled to India on a missions trip — and what I witnessed of the Gospel at work there changed me.
Poverty is real, and it is heavy. Slums. Chronic illness with no access to care. Families who can’t afford enough food. Social structures that escape feel impossible. You can read those words, but being there is different. The weight of it doesn’t lift when you leave.
But here’s what also doesn’t lift: what I saw God doing through Leena.
Missions India Gospel Work in the Hardest Places
Leena doesn’t minister from a distance. She steps into the hardest places — the places most people walk past —, and she meets people there. Physically. Spiritually. Personally. God’s calling on her life is not theoretical; it’s visible in every interaction. She relies on His strength, she moves with the Spirit, and she brings her whole family along for the work. Together, they offer food, medicine, education, and the Gospel to people who need all of it.
She also cares for the pastors under her oversight — making sure they are supported and grounded in sound, biblical teaching. This isn’t a personality-driven ministry built around one person. However, it’s a network of faithful people being equipped and sent.
One Story I’ll Carry for the Rest of My Life
A woman stood in front of me singing praises with tears running down her face. A former Hindu woman who had been trapped in prostitution. Now a sister in Christ. Now earning an honest living. Now free. Her face showed exactly what she’d been rescued from — and who had rescued her.
That’s what faithful obedience looks like over years and years. That’s what it means to leave the ninety-nine and go after the one.
At FBC Boerne, we talk about being sent — not just gathered. Because of that, we walk alongside missions work like Leena’s in India. We are grateful to stand with her.
