22 Facts About Bakht Singh

Bakht Singh Chabra known as Brother Bakht Singh was a Christian evangelist in India and other parts of South Asia.

Bakht Singh is often regarded as one of the most well-known Bible teachers and preachers and pioneers of the Indian Church movement and Gospel contextualization.

Bakht Singh was India's foremost evangelist, preacher and indigenous church planter who founded churches and established Hebron Ministries.

Bakht Singh began a worldwide indigenous church-planting movement in India that grew to more than 10,000 local churches.

Bakht Singh died on 17 September 2000, in Hyderabad, India.

Bakht Singh was actively involved in social work through the Sikh temple.

Bakht Singh was married to Rama Bai at the age of 12, on 6 June 1915.

Bakht Singh's parents were not in favor of him going to England; they were concerned that he would be influenced by Christians.

Bakht Singh promised his parents that he would not be converted.

Bakht Singh quickly adapted to this lifestyle, started smoking and drinking, travelled around Europe, and indulged in all kinds of fun and entertainment.

Bakht Singh shaved his long hair, breaking kesh, or the practice of Sikhism to allow one's hair to grow naturally out of respect for the perfection of the creation of Waheguru.

Years later he went to Kings College in London, and in 1929, Bakht Singh went to Canada and continued his studies in agricultural engineering at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Bakht Singh was befriended by John and Edith Hayward, local residents and devout Christians, who invited him to live with them.

Bakht Singh liked their company and he visited church and started reading the Bible.

Bakht Singh returned to India in 1933 and met his parents in Bombay.

Bakht Singh had earlier informed his parents about his conversion by a letter.

Bakht Singh began speaking as a fiery itinerant preacher and revivalist throughout colonial India, gaining a large following.

Bakht Singh started thoroughly contextualized local assemblies patterned on New Testament principles after spending a night in prayer on a mountaintop at Pallavaram, Chennai in 1941.

Bakht Singh held his first "Holy Convocation", based on Leviticus 23, in Madras in 1941.

Bakht Singh is a first-class Bible teacher of the order of G Campbell Morgan or Graham Scroggie.

Many seriously ill were healed when Bakht Singh prayed for them, even deaf and dumb began to hear and speak.

On 17 September 2000, Bakht Singh died in his sleep and was buried at Christian Cemetery, Narayanguda.