Report on reaching unreached people’s group and the growth of existing churches in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu At this time, we have the following full time pastors: I. Pastor and Mrs. Jayaraj, Pastor and Mrs Joseph, Pastor and Mrs. Daniel, Pastor Edwin and Mr David, a part time paid evangelist. II. The rest of the following pastors are our own product form Harvesters Theological College. We thank God for the good work of Sam (Principal) and his team for training them to become Evangelists, Church planters and Pastors. 1. Arun Kumar (recently, on the 15th of August he left us) 2. Richard, 3. Samuel, 4. Rajini, 5. Barnabas and 6. Amos. Altogether we have ten pastors and one evangelist. Here is a picture of all of them and Victor the Business Manager:
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Report on reaching unreached people’s group
and the growth of existing churches
in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu
At this time, we have the following full time pastors:
I. Pastor and Mrs. Jayaraj, Pastor and Mrs Joseph, Pastor and Mrs. Daniel, Pastor Edwin and Mr
David, a part time paid evangelist.
II. The rest of the following pastors are our own product form Harvesters Theological College.
We thank God for the good work of Sam (Principal) and his team for training them to become
Evangelists, Church planters and Pastors. 1. Arun Kumar (recently, on the 15th of August he left
us) 2. Richard, 3. Samuel, 4. Rajini, 5. Barnabas and 6. Amos. Altogether we have ten pastors
and one evangelist. Here is a picture of all of them and Victor the Business Manager:
God works mysteriously even today– One of our first converts is now Pastor Edwin
In 2002, Rev. Mack Kearney dedicated the church in Keerasath for the new converts. The
following Sunday, worship service was conducted by me. The service was conducted as though
there were 200 people, though only one person was present. The one in the church was a regular
contact (Tholkappiam Velu, now Pastor Edwin). He was attending all our Evangelistic meetings
(we used to conduct once a month) as a seeker. He used to come with a Hindu ritualistic mark on
his forehead. But we never asked him to wipe that mark. On that 1st Sunday too he came with
Hindu ritualistic mark on his forehead. After the service, I sat with him and explained the
Gospel. God moved his heart and he prayed the sinner’s prayer. He became a Christian. God led
him to go to Bible College in June 2002. He has now completed his B. Th and M. Div. God led
him to join with us from August 15, 2010. What a joy to see our convert become a pastor in our
church! He and Barnabas look after the church in Keerasath. Please hear from him what he does
restof the days in the week.
I go regularly to the following villages Melpadi, Pallari, Nedupullari, Kondakuppan, Keersath,
Meelgaikuppam, Venkatpuram, Kudimaiyur and Pudur Colony. By God’s grace, I preach the
Gospel to 10-50 in a week and see 30 people respond to the Gospel. I go and visit them the next
day and encourage them to remain in the faith. I also conduct regular discipleship meetings in
Melpadi and Kondakuppam. I also conduct Bible clubs for the children in Venkatapuram,
Venkatapuram colony, Pudur, Meelagaikuppam and Melpadi.
God brought in a pleasant surprise – Another convert’s
son, Rajesh, is now a student at Harvesters Theological College
One of our converts named Malar lives in Kathrikuppam and by god’s grace her eldest son
Rajesh joined Harvesters Theological College this June to do his B.Th. Honestly, I thought it
would be after my death that one of our convert’s children would come and join us at HTC. But,
God gave me a pleasant surprise by sending Rajesh to us. He is also one of sponsored child
under our Indian Educational sponsorship by GHI, USA.
Here is a brief picture of what our pastors have been doing in their respective villages.
RAMAPURAM
Pastor Richard and Pastor Samuel
God’s church in Ramapuram was started in March, 2007. This church was planted as a result of
GHI outreach ministry in 1999. When God led us to plant churches later, we once again went to
Ramapuram, Chettiwarpalli and Kollthikuppam. God gave us 3 families in Chettiwaripalli-
Babu, Anand and Ramamoorthy and some more from Ramapuram. Then we felt the need for a
church building and God gave us the land and the building in 2007. We had 10 families then.
Then when we had Doctrinal difference with our Pastor Pushapanathan he took our church
converts and started his own church. Ramamoorthy (Samuel) and his Uncle remained faithfull.
By God’s grace Richard and Napolean took charge of the church. Now we have 14 people
attending the church. It is a growing church and sometimes we have 30 people attending the
worship service. Richard and Samuel are serving as pastors now. They live in the church and the
thatched shed you see in the picture is their Kitchen. We are trusting God to provide a parsonage
for Richard and his wife.
Richard and Samuel are in charge of taking care of the church in Ramapuram and do the
outreach among unreached people’s group – the Mala, Madika and Vanniya. They are constantly
preaching the Gospel in 1) Kiollathukuppam 2) Mullipally 3) Krishnakuppam. 4) Pariya