The Best of Strong Women: The Church in India is Persecuted but Flourishing with Rebecca Stanley
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We’re taking a small break this summer to gear up for season six of the Strong Women podcast. During this break, we’ll be re-airing episodes we think you’ll enjoy!
Christianity is exploding across India. For the last 26 years, Rebecca Stanley has participated in God’s work there through evangelism, church planting, and advocating for the vulnerable. Rebecca joins us in studio to share how God is building His Church in India and bringing life and purpose to men and women on the fringes of society.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Strong Women podcast. I feel summer coming rapidly to a close. I don't know about |
| 0:07.2 | you guys, but it is coming fast. In the next week and a half, I take both college age girls back to |
| 0:13.6 | school and I'm feeling all the mom feels. I'm so excited for them and they are so excited, |
| 0:23.3 | but I'm also sad that my house is going to be quieter, that I'll have half my children gone. And I just don't even know how to think about |
| 0:31.1 | that. So I'm choosing not to. And I'm thinking of it one day at a time and I'm just, I'm trying to be |
| 0:37.2 | really present in the moment. And one of the ways that I'm doing that is I'm thinking of it one day at a time, and I'm just, I'm trying to be really present in the |
| 0:38.4 | moment. And one of the ways that I'm doing that is, I'm just saying thank you a lot to God. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you for all my people being under one roof tonight. Thank you for the opportunity to do |
| 0:49.9 | this laundry even. Thank you for the opportunity to make dinner, to wash the dishes. Thank you for |
| 0:56.5 | the conversation that I'm in right now. I've just like really started practicing that gratitude. |
| 1:02.4 | And it's been amazing how much that has helped me with my perspective of life. So anyway, |
| 1:09.6 | I am with you all. I'm sure several of you are in this same |
| 1:14.1 | season where you're saying goodbye to kids. Kids are in and out of the house. It's hard. But I think |
| 1:20.3 | what we can remember at the end of the day is that God truly does love our kids more than we |
| 1:25.8 | too, which is surprising because we love them so much. |
| 1:29.3 | But we can trust the Lord. We can trust his work in their life and his guiding them. |
| 1:36.3 | And we can trust the Lord with ourselves. It's a weird season as a mom to be saying goodbye to |
| 1:42.5 | half my people. But I can trust that this also is for |
| 1:46.6 | his gladness and for his glory and for my good. So I'm kind of preaching to myself right now, |
| 1:54.2 | but I hope that helps you guys as well. Today I'm bringing back a conversation, one of my |
| 1:59.5 | all-time favorites, which I feel like I say that about |
| 2:01.9 | everyone, because each story is so amazing. But this one was truly a gift. And I wanted to bring it |
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