Relationship Status:

Single

Home Town:

Siliguri

Home Country(Original birth place/ Original Nationality ) :

India

Current Nationality:

Indian

Current Location City/Sate/Country:

Siliguri, Darjeeling

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I was called by the Lord serve Him among my own people group named Bengali. I came from a Hindu background and now we are actually fourth largest unreached group in the world.

You can know more about us in www.christalaya.webs.com . In fact we are involved in the church planting program and providing education to the little underprivileged children.

Your personal biography(myself) about your life,how you started and where you are now in life:

My Life


Greetings in the precious name of our Lord Jesus who is coming soon.

It was 1975, a furious craving for power and control over the Hindus consumed the heart of Muslims in Bangladesh which resulted to bloodshed of the thousands of minorities. Indira Gandhi, the then prime minister of India ordered to open the border of India that gave way for the millions of Hindus to come to India, living as refugees. My parents were among those outcasts in India who left behind all their properties as they were the landowner in Bangladesh. Affected by Typhoid fever in her teens, my mother got to be paralyzed in her right leg. However her physical bound could not stop her from the hope of living.

Later in 1977 while in India, my father lost both of his eyes by an accident and became completely a blind man. In India usually the blind people embrace the occupation of begging. Within a few days he had to start begging in the local train for our survival. In fact that was only income and occupation for our family. I still remember almost every day after coming from school still my sixth grade, I was to accompany my father in the local train. My blind father used to sing and I was to beg. Daily passengers in the train had a piety on us. Thus all through my teens we lived on the handouts of others. Pained to see my parents doing their best to educate me as much as they can, I was determined to help them see spending some of the happy days in their lives on the face of this earth.

However, the cruel hands of destiny did not allow us to finish the line. One-day morning we found a lump developing inside the throat of my father. Later, biopsy test revealed that it was a cancerous lump. With no one to turn to, I began, then only 16 years, to go out for earning. But the pay I received was not enough to fill the stomachs of the four members of our family. Many a time I contemplate suicide but when I looked at the pale face of my parents hardly I could took that step.

Within a few days my mother died, leaving us behind with our sick father who was completely bedridden then. During these days we found our Savior in the Lord Jesus through a pastor of a nearby church. This brought a kind of peace in our heart. As the doctors who attended my sick father regularly predicted it, my father also went to be with the Lord after seven months of my mother's death. We both brother then remain alone
in the world. My brother was only 13 then.

Sending my brother to a mission school I again began to attend to my old job. This time I could clearly hear an inner voice asking me always "Jagannath how long will you live this lonely life. Live for some special cause. " I did not know where to go. Gradually I felt that the Lord was calling me to submit my life for His special task. Thus for the last nine years I am involved in evangelistic work and always aiming to bring people into His fold whomever I meet on my way. As the Lord made me convinced that I should not go out without Gospel tracts in my wallet, I am happy to share that to the passers by. It resulted a tremendous joy and immense peace in my heart as I have witnessed people Hindus, Muslim and Christians alike are moved by seeing the way the Lord Jesus is taking care of me.

Presently the Lord has convicted me with a burden to reach out the Orphans and destitute, mainly the children who beg in the street and local train as I did with my father at my early age. In India in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa where people mostly live under poverty line, children are the most neglected in the community here. During my stay with hem I have seen the agony and misery they live with. Many of them are abused in their early age. They do not have even a cloth to cover their bodies. Teen's boys and girls alike only cover the lower part of their bodies. Every time I see them my heart cries aloud to the Lord whom I came to know as my savior just a few years back, that He would send people to take care of these little beautiful ones.


In the subsequent days the same inner voice that caused me to be involved in the task of winning souls for my savior, started pricking me "Jaganath, people may turn back their face from my little ones. But how long will you passed them by?" I did not know what to do. Only thing, still I remember, I said to Him, 'Lord I do not have any land or any property that can be used for the upbringing of these children. Only thing I have is this 58 Kg. of my body including all my weaknesses. If you can use it, please do so. Here I yield myself completely to you.' I do not know how it will come to pass into reality. However, I believe that the Lord has His provision for each of His task that is to be fulfilled in the near future. Friend we do not know the possibilities we have but the Lord sees and gives us His grace and the abundant assistance along with His right provision at the right time if we continually pray and put our whole hearted effort for this with an undivided heart.

Therefore, I would request you to kindly uphold me in your daily prayers and if possible share this with your nearest and dearest friends for extending their prayers for us. Believe me, if we are sincere in our prayer life then surely the Lord will enable us to build a community of Nazareth (a community of peace) where people thought nothing good can come out of it but I believe that our Lord Jesus will come and rest a while in that community of destitute. Because 2000 years ago Nazareth was the only resting place for Him. Moreover, if you can help me with any kind of counseling and advises I will remain grateful to you.



Just two years back, as the Lord guided me, along with my mentor Rev.Aravinda Ghosh and few like minded brothers who carry the same burden from the Lord, we met together for prayer regularly and gradually D B Mercy Mission took birth through the guidance of our Lord. Within this two years we are having some 13 churches and running many free tution centes for the poor student unable to afford the tution fees and conducting one day medical camp. At present we are still at infant stage, but we are constantly growing and looking forward to have many kind hearted and God fearing individuals for their advice and guidance for fruitful ministry.



Moreover, we are also looking forward to seek the help from the churches at large who will be willing to provide us training materials and other necessary needs in order to train the new comers and youths in the church for reaching out the un- reached villages of West Bengal along with wholistic approach.





Thank You.



With Regards,



Yours in His service



Jaganath Banerjee



E-mail: kmercymission@Gmail.com

Official Website Address:

http://www.christalaya.webs.com