{"id":139845,"date":"2025-09-18T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139845"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:56:20","slug":"ct-how-indian-christian-families-are-tackling-gen-z-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139845","title":{"rendered":"(CT) How Indian Christian Families are Tackling Gen Z Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Gracy David first moved to the city of Jaipur in India\u2019s Rajasthan state for an architecture internship nine years ago, the then-23-year-old was nervous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was her first time living away from her family and paying for her own rent and food with her small stipend. She didn\u2019t know many people in the city and, beyond her work, had no plans in the evenings or weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet through the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uesi.in\/\">Union of Evangelical Students of India (UESI)<\/a>, three Christian families in Jaipur welcomed her into their homes, giving her a \u201csoft landing into adulting,\u201d David recalled. They picked her up to attend church and invited her to Sunday lunches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/09\/inda-uesi-open-home-christian-student-ministry\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In India, Christian families are tackling Gen Z loneliness by inviting young people into their homes and lives.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dhduRj4OLy\">https:\/\/t.co\/dhduRj4OLy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1968504501033185485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Gracy David first moved to the city of Jaipur in India\u2019s Rajasthan state for an architecture internship nine years ago, the then-23-year-old was nervous. It was her first time living away from her family and paying for her own<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139845\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,168,481,98,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-india","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139851,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139845\/revisions\/139851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}