Jeeva R Pakerla

Jeeva Ratnam Pakerla calls himself a servant of God. He comes from a family who has been
faithfully serving God past few decades. His ideology towards life is selfless & sacrificial. He
grew up in life learning to find life and experience it all in the context of honoring and glorifying
Jesus Christ.
Finishing his bachelors from reputed Nizam College, Hyderabad and a Post Graduate Diploma
from Osmania University, Hyderabad, he moved to the United States of America to do his
Master’s in Information Systems. Being offered with a full-time job even before his graduation,
he verged onto a lucrative and promising career. However, after being prepared for about a year
from the scriptures for the service of God, he received his call for full-time ministry. Having every
opportunity to stay back in the country, he moved back to India to serve God in the year 2012,
giving up everything in the United States altogether.
His deep desire and convictions are towards evangelism and church planting. He works as a
pastor at the Bible Mission Church in Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. Apart from my pastoral duties,
he works to fulfill the Great Commission in various ways of evangelism. Initiating many new
initiatives to take the gospel to people, he designed the very first Bible Spelling Bee in Andhra
Pradesh. He also is an itinerant speaker at many public places like universities, judiciary
premises, and other public forums. One of their ministry focus is to take 10 million gospel tracts
to people in which about 2.65 million were already reached one-on-one. Through his duties and
services at Maranatha Outreach Center at Veeravasaram, Andhra Pradesh, they minister to
thousands every week. He is also a gifted singer. He is the visionary of the album ‘Srastha,’
which reached millions across the world (See YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTnngB-TqdTrZuCF23kLp2g).
He believes he does not have a mission of His own, except being with Christ in His mission.
While still having about 90% partial reached peoples groups with the gospel in India, he
believes, India, on the whole, is an excellent opportunity for ministry with enormous 1.4 billion
people. As the world is engaged in addressing many global issues, to Jeeva, the Bible brings
forth the greatest global cause, that is to take the Gospel to the ends of the world. He desires
that his ministry would start bringing the light of Gospel into every aspect of our communities for
Christ-centered living.
After being trained in Apologetics from Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in the year 2017,
God has paved another excellent opportunity for education for him to do Master’s in Evangelism
and leadership at Wheaton College, Illinois as Billy Graham Center Scholar. He was the
recipient of ‘The International Christian Leader Award’ with a grant of $45000 scholarship. Few
of the formal papers so far as part of his education were ‘Engaging the Western Universities
with the Gospel in the Postmodern Era,’ ‘Music & Theology,’ ‘Contextualization Gospel Ministry,’
‘Silence, Patience, and Providence of God.’ Finishing his education here at Wheaton, he
envisions to work with various newer evangelistic initiatives to reach all sections and areas of
India.