BERACHAH MINISTRIES, a non-Profit and faith based organization, was founded in 1979, through God given Vision, burden and strategy to reach the un-reached people groups in 10/40 window, in abundance in India, by a totally blind, Bro.B.Satyanarayana, with a holistic approach.
Bro.B.Satyanarayana has a soul winning, and church planting ministerial experience of more than 30 years and now his son, Bro.B.S.Kiran Paul, M.A, a young, committed, disciple of the Lord and having a burden for the lost souls and unprivileged poor of the nation, is taking up the yoke of the ministry, upon the Lord's calling from the year 1998.
MINISTRY
The ministry is mainly divided into,
- Church Planting Ministry
- Evangelism and Gospel Crusades
- Berachah Youth Ministry
- B.E.E.P Training Program. (Berachah Evangelism Exposure Program)
- Berachah Literature Services and Christian Library.
CHARITY
- Orphanage – (Ashrayam which means The Refuge) and Widow home (Aadarana which means ‘Comfort”)
- Self Sustainable Groups.
- Berachah Slum free educating Schools
- Social, Medical, Disaster Relief and financial help to the poor and needy of any caste, religion and creed those approach in faith.
God saved Bro.B.Satyanarayana, coming from a Caste Brahmin, Hindu family, loved and served many Hindu Gods, learned Vedas, and even worked as a priest in the Hindu temples. He became blind gradually during his 14th year and for regaining his eye sight he had constructed many small Hindu temples in search of peace and healing, but His deeply religious activity never brought peace of mind or victory over personal sin. Disgusted With his blind and peace less life he attempted suicide by an over dose of 125 sleeping pills. After Lying unconscious for three days he had a pleasant surprise when the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him in a vision, reveled Himself unto him, saved him and then placed a call on his life. He got baptized in the waters and obeyed the voice after a long physical and spiritual struggle. This commitment for the Lord made him an alien to his family, he is necked out of his house, rejected for his faith and was banned of relationships with any of his family members, not even pitying for this blindness.
He had the Lord' calling to be a “Servant of God”, in the year 1977 to which he rejected, giving his blindness as a reason. Still the Lord perused him for the ministry, after prayers for about two years and confirmations from the Lord through visions and the Lord’ Word, through Isa.43:3, Exo.4:11, .....and by deadly situations in the family he agreed and obeyed to the heavenly calling to be a Servant of God and to be a witness of the Cross to the uttermost parts of the Nation and in other parts of the World. He is a gifted Bible teacher, and his handicap of blindness became an encouragement and challenge to otherwise healthy lives yet handicapped by Sin. He is blessed with a son and a daughter. His son, Pastor B.S.KIRAN PAUL, is also saved and called by the Lord to shoulder the yoke of the Heavenly father in the place of his father. He is given the Responsibility as the president of the "BERACHAH MINISTRIES". Together they are pressing forward with the burden to "Present Him in words and in Deeds".
Testimony of Bro. Kiran Paul
Bro.Kiran Paul was born in the year 1976. The doctors said he was dead as an infant in his mother’s womb when she was 8 months pregnant, and due to the handicapped parents (father blind in eyes and my mother crippled in hands), the doctors said if ever he is born, he too would be with some or other handicap in my body. Then his parents prayed and dedicated their first born to the service of the Lord if he is born alive and perfect. Praise the Lord! the Lord heard their prayers. He is born and brought up as a Christian but never had Christ in his heart. He had an inclination towards the natural religion of ours which is Hinduism, He thought Christianity is some thing, which he couldn’t digest and take, as it is a foreign religion to him, a new concept dividing the society and he grew totally against the Lord, and in his desire to become a pious man in Hinduism he started reading the Vedas.
He read the Hindu Veda the GEETHA. There in the Geetha, he found the prophecies about the Creator, (Prajapathi the Saviour) and the fulfilment of them in Jesus alone. For example: “Sarva papa phariharo raktha prokshnam mavashayam.Thad raktham Paramathamayena punya daana bali yagam. Na punyam pranadanashya, Jagat punyam na hi, na hi.” (A Sanskrit sloka from Geetha).
This means , “ For the remission of the whole world’s sins, there needs a sacrifice, that sacrifice which is not of an animal or of a bird , but the( Parama Athma,) which means the Almighty God, or the Divine Soul, himself needs to sacrifice, with His free will , not by force. If ever there is no sacrifice of the Almighty by himself there is no remission of sins for the sinner.
Thus, this speaks of the prophecies and facts written in Hebrews chapter 9, believing in Jesus Christ the son of God and in His sacrifice on the cross of Calvary, he got saved and got baptized in the year 1995,through the Lord’ revelation of His cross and eternal life. He thus got released from the bandages of sin and Satan, and of all the worldly desires and attractions. He who was once a persecutor of his own family and the believers is now serving the Lord. Hallelujah!
He was called by the Lord to shoulder the yoke of the Heavenly father, while he was doing the master's degree in a university, in English literature. Knowing and experiencing the sufferings in the ministry he refused to obey to the heavenly calling, to serve the Lord. He prayed about this fasting for forty days, with a heart and an intension, that he would never obey to the Lord' calling, but on the 38th day the Lord spoke to him from Joel.2:12, 13, asking him to Obey Him, so he obeyed the Lord and asked for more conformations and even asked the Lord as to where he is to minister him, as he was planning to serve the Lord in some better place and in other better countries as he had the opportunities. But to his surprise, he was commanded by the Lord from Ruth 2: 8 , to serve him in the same country and amongst his own people. So, that very day he said, Lord, I will be in your ministry for your sake and will be a channel of blessing to many as you bless me.
From the Year 1998 onwards he has been serving the Lord, with a Vision to “save and rise up indigenous people, to equip them to reach their own people groups” through the Mission ,"Presenting Him in Words and in Deeds", from 1Jhn.3:18.
My life, I wish, would be a candle that can give light to those in spiritual darkness, a book that can share knowledge to the ignorant masses, a father to the fatherless, and a channel of blessing to those that are in need of food, clothing and shelter. I wish, I breathe my last, serving the Lord, amongst the poor, the unsaved and the needy, "Presenting Him in Words and In Deeds. – B.S. Kiran Paul.
We are looking for the like minded people, Churches, Organizations, to join hands with us to see a Healthy society, Saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, to see a Revived Church, the Bride of Christ, with the heavenly hope in Christ, and to see equality through, the shared love of Christ, by reaching the un-reached and catering to the needs of the Orphans, old aged, destitute kids and widows, the heart beat of God. James.1: 27. Dear friend are you the one?!
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