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Publication: WatauguaDemocrat.com
Date: June 21, 2004
URL: http://www.kentaxrecords.com/iaca/php/item_display.php?id=1087802936&type=news
In a show of the utter desperation
to gains Christian converts in India, missionaries have begun targeted
a new demographic segment - children and infants. Since last year over
900 stuffed animals have been distributed by the Christian Youth Service
Center (CYSC) center in the rural villages Eluru of Andhra Pradesh.
In North Carolina, used stuffed
animals dolls are first collected by children of missionaries, such as
9 year old Jackson Yates. Probably unaware of how his dolls are being used
to fraudulently convert Hindus in India, Yates, a third-grader at Valle
Crucis Elementary School, proclaims "It's just a really good cause."
The collected the dolls awaiting
shipment are then kept in the Howard's Creek Church storage area. Next
the dolls are shipped at a cost of about $35 to $40 per box in August,
which is supported through community donations. Finally the dolls are distributed
during the Christmas season by indigenous missionaries in Eluru such as
John Kancherla.
Kancherla admits the dolls are used
to convert the Indian youth to Christianity, "As we hand out those little
animals to the children, they're spreading the gospel. We're attracting
kids with the animals and they're responding." In fact, the CYSC recently
stated that such efforts "are important with CYSC in its mission to convert
members of the Hindu religion to nondenominational Christianity."
Besides conversion by means of stuffed
animals, CYSC also supports indigenous missionary training schools, a widow's
home and a church built with foreign funding from a church in Martinsville,
Va and is responsible for missionary activity for over a 200 mile radius.
