Thanksgiving for Sadhu Sundar Singh
Published: 15 July 2010
Bishop Chris led an Act of Thanksgiving for Sadhu Sundar Singh at an event organised by the Lahore Link.
Born into a Sikh family in what is now the Indian Punjab in 1889, as a boy Sundar had resisted the teaching of his missionary school teachers, but at 15 he believed Jesus was calling him. He trained for ordination but just before he was due to be ordained he felt the Spirit tell him he was to became an evangelist instead.
He travelled all over the Indian sub-continent as a sadhu (‘a holy man, possessing little’), sharing the Gospel while respecting Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism. Sometimes he was attacked for his Christian faith, once in Tibet being thrown into a dry well and left to die, but later rescued by a mysterious stranger. He wrote many books, including ‘At the Master’s Feet’ which was translated into 38 languages.
In 1929 the Sadhu set out on a journey into the Himalayas but never returned. He has been a great inspiration not only to South Asian Christians, but also to white Christians and to South Asian people of all faiths.
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