From Hinduism to Christian Pastor
Those who know you, LORD, will trust you; you do not abandon anyone who comes to you.
[ Psalm 9:10]
I, John David was a born in a Hindu family, in the village of srungavruksham, Thandangi Mandal, East Godavari District Andhra Pradesh, South India. My whole family worshipped the Idol Pakka. We did not know anything concerning Jesus Christ. I was used to drinking Alcohol and smoking and other things that led to such terrible wrongs that all village people were saying that I was a very bad man. I never listened to my father when he advised me of the right things to do. One day a pastor came to my village and he was preaching the word of God. It was door to door evangelism giving cottage prayers and conducting crusade meetings.
One day pastor approached at me, and talked about The Word, but I actually fought him and told him I had no interest in Christ, and instead enjoyed my bad habits. Then, through misfortune, my father became sick in 1996. Un-able to provide proper care for my father due to the extreme poverty in my village, my father passed away the same year. It was too much mourn, too difficult to confront. During that the same pastor approached, when everyone else in my village had written me off, and he gave me comfort and said a Bible verse. From that day forward I was with the pastor in God’s ministry everyday. I used to read Bible once a day in the early morning, and one day I came across Ps. 118:8, which touched my heart. I left my job and dedicated my life to the Christ ministry. I had taken Baptism in 1997, and soon went to Bangalore for B.Th., studies in 2001, and after my studies I came back to my birthplace. I got married, and started to establish church ministries, praying to God everyday for guidance.
One particular instance, we prayed and fasted for 5 days & nights, and God showed us his vision on 4th day. We were to visit a place a small town which was a modern-day Sodom & Gomorrah. We visited door to door but people were saying that already 6 pastors left from the place because of the town’s use of filthy language, public beatings, harlotry, witch craft, pakka idolatry and fornication of all types. We went by confidence in God by faith, doing Gods ministry independently without any support organization.
We rented a hut that acted as a Church where we ran a Sunday school, fasting & prayer every Friday, and all night prayers once a month. By the Grace of God we are now up to 40 Church members, conducting cottage prayers and crusades. God is doing mighty miracles among the sick people of the village. We are given Baptism (Immersion) by father, son and Holy Spirit.
Your faithful servant
Pastor D. John David
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