Like so many immigrants, Bhupinder Singh moved to Canada from India within the last decade. Working in the banking industry as an Information technology professional, . . . he was thankful to God for that. "I thought whatever I had," says Bhupinder, "was a blessing from WAHEGURU - my own religion, my own faith, my own scriptures." But that began to change. "One night, after praying and reading our scriptures, my wife had a dream. In this dream, the Lord Jesus himself came to her and told her about what she has been praying for. . . . 

"No, brother. I cannot go to Nuremberg. It is too late for me. Look! Look what four years in the mines have done to my hands! The bones in every finger have been smashed at least once, and lately I have been suffering from arthritis so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much less make delicate lines on parchment or canvas with a pen or a brush. No, brother for me it is too late." . . . . One day, to pay homage to Albert for all that he had sacrificed, Albrecht Durer painstakingly drew his brother's abused hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward. He called his powerful drawing simply "Hands," but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed his tribute of love "The Praying Hands."

I am sixty year young, born and brought up in Punjab, India. I come from a very poor family who could not afford my education beyond the tenth standard. I attained my entire education through self-study, without coaching, tuition or correspondence courses. I visited the university only to sit in the examinations . . . . I came up from an untouchable family of India where religion has denied us a humane living for centuries. Caste system in India fixes social hierarchy. It perpetuates the law of inequality based on the tenet of reincarnation. The religious belief is that we are born into a low caste to pay for the sins of our past lives. We are told, “we have no relationship with God”. We are still denied access to certain Hindu temples . . . . They worship the animals but hate the human beings. For centuries we were told that we could not worship god, as we do not belong to Him.

I am a computer professional and majority of the time, I am sitting working at my office desktop, if I am not in business or technical meetings. However, as soon as I reached my office, I had to work on some urgent technical issues and almost forgot about the website. At around 4:30 pm after fixing the issue, I had a chance to relax in my office and took a look at my “To Do” list. I realized my plan to visit the Benny Hinn Ministries website. I wasted no time and started browsing the site. As I browsed the site, I became excited about the various biblical places that were part of tour itinerary of Israel. My spirit immediately longed to be part of this tour but I knew that it would be very difficult for me to go as I had many pending work assigments.