Bihar, India

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Bihar is in North India bordered by Nepal to the North, Uttar Pradesh to the West, Jharkand (formerly part of Bihar until 2000) to the South and West Bengal to the East. The Ganges River flows across Bihar from West to East. The capital city is Patna with rail and air service. Bihar is home to 90,000,000 people.

One ministry there has identified 50 unreached people groups with 100,000 or more people in each. Bihar is also known as the birthplace of Gautama Buddha and a Buddhist worship and tourist center has been built with primarily Japanese funding. Bihar at one time picked up the name as "the graveyard of missions" and the Indians even had a proverb for Bihar, ie. "Can anything good come out of Bihar". But it and Patna were once the center of flourishing civilization. Current statistics place it as the least evangelized state of India with less than 6 believers out of every 10,000 people. But God is on the move, one ministry acknowledges 11,000 baptisms in 2006. "May Bihar be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea!"