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India's 43.8% — the dominant pipeline

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Drive north on US-75 from downtown Dallas. Exit at Belt Line Road in Richardson. The landscape shifts: Indian restaurants — Bawarchi, Paradise Biryani, Udipi Cafe. Halal meat markets. Pakistani grocery stores. Bollywood dance studios. A Hindu temple with carved gopuram towers visible from the highway.

The Richardson-Plano corridor is one of the densest Indian communities in the American South. Texas Instruments, AT&T, and dozens of tech companies drew Indian engineers here in the 1990s. Their families followed. Then their restaurants, their temples, their grocery stores. 232 Indian businesses mapped. 183 Pakistani. 43.8% of all international students in Texas come from India — the highest percentage of any top-10 state.

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Total POIs
0
Int'l Students (TX #3)
0
Pakistani Businesses
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Students from India
Top Campuses
UT Dallas UT Dallas
Texas A&M Texas A&M
UT Arlington UT Arlington
University of Houston U of Houston
SMU SMU
Indian
232
Chinese
186
Pakistani
183
Korean
164
Japanese
153
Thai
119
Biryani and naan bread served at a Richardson Indian restaurant

545,000 Urdu speakers.
Zero percent evangelical.

545,000 Urdu speakers live in the United States. Zero percent evangelical. That's not "almost zero" — it's zero. No known Urdu-speaking evangelical believers counted in national surveys. 183 Pakistani businesses in Dallas alone, serving a community that has never heard the gospel in their own language.

Urdu-speaking churches in the DFW metro: zero.

4,000+
American churches in this metro
vs.
0
reaching Urdu speakers
545,000 Urdu speakers. 183 Pakistani businesses in Dallas. Zero churches in their language.

Texas ranks #3. 43.8% from India.

A concentration found nowhere else in the top 10 states. UT Dallas, SMU, UNT — the pipeline runs directly from Hyderabad and Bangalore to Richardson and Plano.

“Effective Muslim evangelism requires sustained personal relationship, not programmatic outreach.”
Connecting Muslims to Jesus — Reaching Internationals, 2023

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”

— Jim Elliot

“I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also.”

John 10:16

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Drive Belt Line Road in Richardson. Count the Indian and Pakistani businesses. You'll lose count before you reach the highway.

2

Contact campus ministry at UT Dallas or SMU. Ask how many Pakistani or Indian students they serve. Ask what keeps them up at night.

3

Learn to say "Salaam alaikum." It means peace. Start there.

The nations didn't wait.
They moved to Richardson.

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