The humble beginnings of Give Jesus to the World Ministries can be traced to a small prayer cell meeting that began with seven ladies under the leadership of Sister Baby Tharu on a cool January afternoon of the year 1992. Three years down the line, on September 15, Sister Baby Tharu’s son, John accepted Jesus as his personal savior. He received water baptism in November 1996 and began regularly attending the worship services of different churches in and around his home town. A gaping void he felt in many of the services he attended led him to seek the Lord and subsequently start a retreat center in Anchal, Kerala where he would preach the word and minister to those in need of healings.
This retreat center and its associated services began to see huge results of increment with baptismal services happening every month. People began flocking to the retreats and tent meetings done in nearby villages where their sick got healed and shackles of addictions fell off from those who could otherwise never shake it off. The services that were initially held at the Tharu residence had to be moved, first to a small auditorium and then to a larger one as each venue became insufficient to hold the increasing throng of people thirsty for God’s touch. By 2001, the services were further organized into a format that gave birth to the first local church of Give Jesus to the World Ministries at Anchal, Kerala.
