Testimony


    Greetings in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, my name is S.D. Selvam. Our home town is Kovilpatti. I have Seven brothers and one sister. A younger brother died of fever at his early age. We were a orthodex Hindu family. My father used to worship with an idol of Murugan and my mother with an idol of Pillaiyar in separate puja rooms at home. My father worked as a Drawing teacher. My mother was suddenly afflicted with witchcraft and used to roam the streets without staying at home. The hands and feet are binded with chains. I was four months pregnant on that time. This created a situation where someone had to watch her in all the time. No one can suppress her. Not eating. Not stay at home. All medical treatment were Failed to cure her.

    At that time, my father's sister told to my father that go and hear a Christian pastor for advice. Accordingly, he went to a Christian pastor and asked for advice, he asked him to fast and Pray continuously for forty days. My father and my grandmother went to the church and prayed continuously. No changes happen till the Thirty-nine days. Then my father got stress and asked the pastor, when my wife will get healing. Pastor told that ‘’Today is the last day, We will continue to keep on pray’’. the Pastor encouraged my father by saying that God Almighty will do miracles things for your wife. On the day of fourty the prayer begins, within a short while my mother came by herself into the church premises. Then the pastor told him to untie the chains from his hands and feet. Then all our family started prayed for my mother, God gave me perfect deliverance. Since then, our family accepted Jesus Christ as our personal savior and Worshiped Only God. After when I born, they dedicated me to Christ.

    My spouse name is P. Jansi Krubaimani. God has saved them from a Hindu pious family in their home as well. 18 were born with their father. All are men. No women. They have been a good and comfortable family. Someone in their village came to their house and asked for the price of their high quality cow. My spouse's grandfather said that he will not give it. A few days later that They were shocked to see the sudden death of the cow. Since then every property started to perish. 17 out of 18 will die by age 21. How they die was incomprehensible. My wife's father is the 18th person. Seeing the children dying, their parents went to a Hindu temple and asked Thavit to adopt the child and give it as alms and named it Pichaimuthu. He stayed at his uncle's house in Madurai as a child. They put him in a hostel in Pasumalai and made him study there. After studying the ninth standard, no one came to write the tenth standard exam before paying the money, so he dropped out of school and came to his native town along with many friends and got involved in many evil things. He studied in a Christian hostel in Madurai and knew a little about the Vedas.

    He was in pain every day thinking of his family. They were stunned not knowing what to do. They hated God saying that not even a single deity helped us. At that time the Christians in their village had arranged a meeting for Pastor Jeevanandam to preach. In that situation my wife's father and his friends were working as mic operators below the stage.

    Then the word of God began to work in his father's heart. After the meeting, he explained his situation. Mr. Jeevanandam placed his hands on him and prayed, "God choose you in your mother's womb. Don't be afraid, you alone will live in your house is a reason do go and work for God” said the prophecy. On that day, He accepted Jesus as his own deity, got saved, got baptized by Mr. Jeevanandam, Served for God in Sivakasi area, and He has committed all his children to ministry. Two boys and four girls are all doing ministries. I have married their eldest daughter on May 20, 1998 according to God's plan.

   We were childless for five years. Before our first son born, we named him Charis Jairus saying that if God gave us a son, we would dedicate him to God. We prayed that he would be born on early Sunday morning. God miraculously gave us a baby boy on Sunday 20th July 2003 just as we prayed. Currently he is studying second year of college (Physics). Then on 20th November 2008 we had another son and named him Crispus Jeconiah. He is currently studying in ninth standard. We have dedicated both of them to the ministry.

   By God's great grace we have been serving God in Thoothukudi for twenty years. So far, we have formed three congregations. We started personal ministry for a few reasons. For three days we both prayed when there was no one to help us. After, that we started another congregation by renting a place for Rs 100 only on Sundays. At the beginning there is not even a soul.

   The day before the congregation started, my wife gave notices containing the details of the congregation worship in the surrounding areas. We started the ministry with the faith that if a soul comes, who does not go to any congregation, we will do minister in Tuticorin. Likewise, while worshiping is going on, God brought a soul from the heathen religion. Her husband is a devout Hindu. He had a blood vessel leak. When she saw the notice and asked her husband to go to Sunday service, he told her to go only here and not anywhere else. And so, they came. She has two daughters. They were also saved and decided that they would get married to the Christian system. This is how our ministry grew. My wife conducted free tuition and thereby brought the children to the Lord. Then the parents of those children were also saved. 500 rupees per day rent for council premises. Then we were unable to pay the rent.

    It was then that the owner of the place gave permission to put a house for assembly at S.M.puram in Thoothukudi. Now we are conducting worship there. God continues to give souls to the church. Currently 33 families are coming to the church. We don't have enough space. We were looking at the place. We prayed. God miraculously helped me to buy land at 2.25 cents last year. The Lord made things happen. As it is a small space, we have decided to build a church on the first floor as we need to build a car park, a baptismal font and a toilet below. Initial work is underway. 

                 For the past nine years, we have conducted a small Bible school and created many people by God's grace. Therefore, we have decided to build the Bible School, and a house for us above the church building after a few years after the church is completed, pray. We have never borrowed from anyone. Even now we are praying that God will help us to build without taking a loan in faith. Please keep us and the ministry in your prayers. As the Spirit of the Lord inspires, we kindly request you to give your offering and help in the construction of the church. Thanks. Eagerly awaiting their reply.