First of all I want to thank to all the people in the Global who made a special impact on my life with their love and actions in Christ. I’m also grateful for this opportunity to share my testimony which brought me to put my faith in Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.

I was born in Warangal (India) in a Hindu family, and then moved to Hyderabad at the age of 12 with my parents for my studies and better life. I have two younger brothers. I have seen several up’s and down’s in our family lives with my parents. I was always encouraged by my parents for Hindu Idol worshipping; I have participated in idol worshipping with my parents very seriously.

I remember when I was studying Engineering (age 21) I started to think of who is God? And is he in the form of Hindu Idols. This interest dragged me to the church with my friend on one Sunday evening service at a Baptist church. God spoke to me several times through that evening message. I was surprised how come a pastor is aware of my personal things; again I thought it was a coincidence. Again next Sunday I alone went to the church to check whether this time God will speak to me or not. This time God spoke to me very strongly and from that day I never stopped going to church.

I have started putting my faith in Jesus Christ in 2004, When I looked back my life at that point I realised that I have encountered Jesus Christ several times, I heard about Jesus Christ many times and saved by him in several situations and received several gifts but I didn’t knew it was Jesus Christ.

Since I have accepted Jesus Christ there was a complete transformation in my life. I was an introvert, coward person and used to hide in bed room when some guest’s visit my home. I was so aggressive and used to hit my younger brothers and friends, I used to do several sinful things like getting drunk, dating girls, stealing, abusing, defaming others and fighting with people for no reason.  But after attending regular church service LORD worked amazingly in my life.

There was a complete transformation, Jesus changed my life slowly step by step, now I am a very free man, No more sinning or doing any wrong things. I wouldn’t have changed on my own, with my strengths; it became possible only with Jesus Christ. My Faith and Trust in Jesus has grown stronger and stronger and I have received several rewards in career and personal life, my parents, family members and friends were very happy after seeing such transformation in me.

As I belong to a strong Hindu background family, my parents, family members and friends were against to me for following Christ. They have spoke badly about me on my back, humiliated me and started avoiding me too. I always shared word of God with my cousins and friends, how God is amazing? I used to take few of my cousins and friends to the church with me for praying. Jesus touched their lives too and they have experienced the love of God and have become believers of Jesus Christ. But no one had guts to say publicly that we follow Jesus including me because we will be avoided by our own families.

I do not have any idea why I have choose to come to New Zealand but I have made a decision and worked very hard to accumulate enough funds from banks and families to study and settle here, extra ordinary things have happened in my life during this process, Jesus Christ has helped me very much.