Dr. Vasantha Kumar Petta
Dr. Bala Veera Vasantha Kumar Petta (Vasantha Kumar) was born in a Hindu family. At the age of 13 in 1988 he accepted Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior at a street ministry. Later in couple of years God used him in bringing his parents Balayogi Petta and Sarojini Petta into the salvation of Jesus Christ. He attended Junior College from 1991 to 1993 at Govt. Junior College, Rajahmundry, where he started backsliding from his faith in LORD JESUS. This caused lot of pain to his parents, but they prayed for him, bringing about a turning back to the Lord Jesus.
Vasantha Kumar attended Engineering College in Guntur, Andhra.Pradesh, India from 1994 to 1998. During these graduation days he got a chance to grow in Christian fellowship with local UESI graduates at AELC-North Parish YBSC group. In 1995 he attended a one-day Gospel retreat event called “Hope-95” by YBSC, Guntur and rededicated his life to LORD and GOD JESUS. By grace of LORD JESUS, he began to understand the knowledge of WORD and basic Christian doctrines. After graduation, in November 1998 he moved to Hyderabad, A.P, India in pursuit of career opportunities. In early 1999 he started working at an engineering training institute called TEA as teaching assistant for about 18 months. In September 2000 by God’s grace he got a job in EDA company called Avant!, which later got acquired by Synopsys, Inc., in mid-2002. While working at Synopsys he used to do technical support to U.S based customers from India during nights. So, he joined and completed fulltime M.Tech course in J.N.T.U. Hyderabad by attending college during the day. In 2003 God spoke to him about his wife and they got married in January 2004. After marriage he moved to Bangalore with his wife and worked for a company called TATA-Elxsi as Sr. Design Engineer. After one year in January 2005 he moved back to Synopsys, Hyderabad and worked all the way till January 2013 in various positions. In 2013 he got transferred to Synopsys, Hillsboro, U.S and working there till date as Staff Application Consultant. While working at Synopsys, Hyderabad he did register for Ph.D. degree starting 2008 Sep and submitted his dissertation in December 2012. In 2015 he awarded with Ph.D. degree.
Vasantha Kumar came to know about the knowledge of Holy Spirit baptism in year 1996 during his graduation at Guntur, A.P. Since then he prayed about it and in 2008 JESUS filled him with Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues. From his own experience he seeks to help those who have questions about Holy Spirit baptism. He loves to counsel and guide young believers in JESUS who are getting ready for marriage. Apart from this Vasantha Kumar has passion for evangelism since his graduation days and started believing God for provision according to II Corinthians 9:10. He and his wife Rajakumari partnered with few men of God who have passion to peach gospel of Kingdom in remote villages since 2004. After moving to Hillsboro, OR God reminded him through his word from Isaiah 61 about “Spirit Anointed Mission” in 2015. Vasantha Kumar and his wife Rajakumari are blessed with two kids (son & daughter) as gifts from God- Samuel Petta and Shiny Suzan Petta.
Rajakumari Alajangi
Rajakumari Alajangi was born into Roman Catholic family. During her Engineering diploma course in 1993 she accepted JESUS as her personal Savior and LORD. She did receive her Engineering graduation degree in Electronics from Nagarjuna University, Guntur, A.P in 1997. In the same year she moved to Hyderabad for doing her post-graduation M.Tech course from J.N.T.U Hyderabad. In the same year she was baptized in Holy Spirit in a meeting held at Hyderabad. Starting from 1999 she started her career as Assistant Professor at Shadan Engineering College, Hyderabad. Her husband found her by guidance of LORD JESUS and they got married in January 2004. After January 2005 she worked at various Engineering colleges affiliated to J.N.T.U Hyderabad teaching students at graduate and post-graduate level until 2013. Then she moved to Hillsboro, OR, U.S.A in December 2013 with her husband. Rajakumari and her husband Vasantha Kumar are blessed with two kids (son & daughter) as gifts from God- Samuel Petta and Shiny Suzan Petta. God reminded to her and her husband about their kids before they born and they dedicated them to LORD JESUS. She also has passion for evangelism and loves to work with her husband in the ministry.
Paul Kiran Yeddanapudi
Rev Paul Kiran is the Senior Pastor of The Word Of God Church, Secunderabad, T.S, India alongside his wife Christhu Jyothi and children, Elijah and Ezekiel. Pastor’s passion and hunger for encountering the Presence of God inspires all to exercise new levels of faith and take hold of the promises of God’s Word. He has committed his life to “empower generations to win generations”.
He is passionate about Jesus and passionate about seeing you overcome life’s obstacles by living in the Spirit. He believes in the potential of every person and therefore dedicates himself to the training and discipleship of his congregation. He has a strong teaching foundation and understands the importance of creating environments for his congregation to draw near to God and allow the Holy Spirit to speak into their lives. It’s his desire for every person to get a personal revelation of the gospel and how it obtains the keys to unlock the potential and destiny within them, bringing breakthrough to their lives.