WILLS POINT, TX – Discover the inspiring journey of a national missionary bringing transformation and hope through the love of Jesus to a marginalized community of snake-catchers.
As usual, people in the bustling city marketplace hustled past Pradip, trying to avoid him.
A snake-catcher, Pradip was disdained by almost everyone. His people are a nomadic group at the bottom of the caste system, living outside the city in an isolated village comprised of temporary sheds. They rarely take baths or wash their clothes. Although the people’s traditional occupation is catching and defanging snakes, they earn their living primarily by going into busy city areas to beg and to entertain people through snake-charming, dramas and dances. Instead of sending their children to school, they usually teach them these methods of earning money. People look down on the snake-catchers because of their low caste, their lack of cleanliness and their aggressive begging tactics.
But on this particular day, something unique happened: Pradip was astonished when a man began talking with him. The man, GFA World national missionary Ramra Khan, had been handing out Christian literature among the people and stopped to talk with Pradip about the love of Jesus…
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