As a child, Omar* left his home to become a Buddhist monk, and in his later years he would leave again … this time to be a missionary to a foreign land. He found himself in India hoping to convert the people to Buddhism by visiting and working in the villages.
It was during one of his visits that he met an East-West national partner who happened to be in the same village that day. Each of them saw an opportunity for enlightenment. But Omar—after hearing the gospel—not only found enlightenment, but he also found his heart truly changed.
That afternoon, he went back to his monastery, turned in his robes and left. In the coming months, he received East-West evangelism and church planting training to become a new kind of missionary—one who spreads the truth.
Since then, Omar has planted at least one church in each of the 42 villages among the tribe with which he once shared Buddhism—45 churches total—and continues to take the gospel into new territories each day.