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India's 43.8% — the dominant pipeline
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.
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.
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
Drive Belt Line Road in Richardson. Count the Indian and Pakistani businesses. You'll lose count before you reach the highway.
Contact campus ministry at UT Dallas or SMU. Ask how many Pakistani or Indian students they serve. Ask what keeps them up at night.
Learn to say "Salaam alaikum." It means peace. Start there.
The nations didn't wait.
They moved to Richardson.