Posted by Anthony Adams

I took the picture at the top of this blog last September in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. The traffic actually looks relatively orderly on this shot because of the upcoming central reservation – in other places there could be cars, bikes, people, rickshaws or cows, all over the street heading in any and all directions!

Uttar Pradesh has a population of more than 190 million people – that’s more than three times the population of the UK, and two thirds of the population of the USA! If it was a country in it’s own right, it would be the sixth largest country in the world after China, India, USA, Indonesia and Brazil. It is India’s most populous state, and the world’s most most populous sub-national entity. In terms of the gospel, it is largely unreached. Most mission activity, historically, has been in the south of India. The north is fairly barren.

The work we connect with in Lucknow is the Tell-Asia Alliance headed up by Alok Srivastava. Alok spent some time in the UK training at the Cornhill Training Course several years ago. Now he is at the heart of a movement in North India, which is seeing many churches planted in many villages. There are many people coming to faith in the Lord Jesus. Radstock is helping people connect to this movement as they go out and help in training the house church leaders, and in developing well projects for villages. There are also some considering going to live there long term.

To find out more about this exciting work, contact Radstock's Anthony Adams at