The Life of the Founder

Leaving a government job in the health sector, leaving a native place in Andhra Pradesh, and choosing to learn dependence on God was a leap of faith in obeying the call to the mission in the western part of Orissa state. He completed a four-year theological study and joined his wife, Bijilimathi, to venture into a cross-cultural mission in the early 1970s. The family, with their two sons, Samarpanam and Anargalam, chose to station at Talpatratikira village in the Bargarh district in Orissa state. The rural habitations had no electricity, no running water, no school, no house of their own, no church, and the only connectivity to the villages was through rough, muddy roads.

He visited house to house on foot. In a few months, he purchased a secondhand bicycle to reach neighboring villages to present God's love through Gospel songs and music and to share His living Word, the Holy Bible. People gradually sought to gather for weekly Read more..