This week in Christian history: Battle of Lake Peipus; Bakht Singh arrives in Bombay; William Thomson dies
Bakht Singh arrives in Bombay – April 6, 1933
This week marks the anniversary of when Bakht Singh Chabra, an Indian Christian evangelist commonly known as Brother Bakht Singh, arrived in Bombay, or modern-day Mumbai, India.
Born to Sikh parents in the Punjab region and educated in England, Singh converted to Christianity a few years earlier while traveling to Canada, and was baptized in 1932.
“His parents came to receive him. They asked him to keep his conversion as a secret. Bakht Singh said, ‘Can I live without breathing? When Christ is my life how can I live without Him?’ They left him in Bombay. He became homeless,” explained Campus Link.
“In his testimony, he says, ‘The Street was my home and the lamp post was my light. It was there I had to have my quiet time. Yet those were very happy days. I thank God for all those days.’”
Singh went on to become a popular traveling preacher and church planter in Southeast Asia, helping to found a movement credited with planting an estimated 10,000 congregations worldwide.
