SPEAKERS
Rev. David A. Davis serves as an honorary Pastor of UECF since 2002. He is the Senior Pastor of the Linwood Heights United Methodist Church, Linwood, PA. He lives with his wife Naomi and and a son Praneel. His older son Prashant is an ex US Marine, currently with Maryland PD. After he was born again in 1980, he left his high profile corporate job in response to God’s call and enrolled for theological studies at UTC, Yavatmal and served as a Pastor in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and all across North India before coming to USA in 2001.
Rev. Dr. David K. Ravinder is the Senior Pastor of the Whitehouse United Methodist Church in Whitehouse, NJ. He is an ordained Elder in the Greater NJ Annual Conference. Following the completion of his Ph.D from Princeton Seminary, Dr. Ravinder started his pastoral ministry in 1985 having served churches in Warren, Bridgewater, Berkeley Heights, Roselle Park and Whitehouse UMC. Since 1997 he has served as the Hon. Senior Pastor of the United Evangelical Christian Fellowship(UECF). He has taught courses in Counseling in India, Singapore and USA.
Rev. Dr. Daniel Akumrthi is a Post Graduate in English Literature from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and a Theological Graduate from Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad. He is married to Satyaveni and blessed with a son Carmel David. He has 16 years experience in music ministry under Latter Rain Ministries. He is a gifted song writer, singer and music composer. He wrote 150 songs and recorded 12 audio albums including 1 video album. His songs and preaching ministry is a blessing irrespective of denomination around the globe.
Rev. Philip Pedapalli is an Evangelist and associating with Pastor Israel Suppogu at Chelsea Presbyterian church in Atlantic city and local churches in the area. God called him for the full time ministry in 1992 since then he has been serving the Lord. He and his wife Hephzibah served as missionaries to Amritsar, Punjab for 10 years before coming to USA. They have one daughter and a son.
Dr. T. M. John is a Senior Pharmacist at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Paterson, NJ. He is a member of Marthama Church, Randolph, NJ. He is associated with Indian Evangelical Mission(IEM), Board Member of Pandita Ramabhai Muktti Mission and NAAIC. He and his wife worked with Medical Assistance Program(MAP INTERNATIONAL) in Afghanistan.
Bro. Jacob Puli was born again in Dr. Billy Graham's first crusade in Madras, where Mrs Jacob too came to know the Lord. As he sought the Lord for spiritual fellowship, God led him to assemblies of late Brother Bakht Singh, where he was able to grasp the church truth and grow spiritually. He had graduate studies in Temple University, Philadelphia. Presently he lives with his family in Connecticut and is teaching in Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT.
Bro. Rajan S. Mathews is the CFO and VP of TelarGo Inc and he is all set to head COAI, which represent most of India’s largest telecom operators. Prior to Telargo, he served as President of Telephone Systems International, VP and CFO of Call Sciences Inc. Immediately before that, at AT&T Wireless, he held a number of executive leadership positions, including Divisional CFO, Corporate Controller, President and CEO of one if its largest joint ventures (in India, Birla-AT&T now IDEA). He is a CPA from the State of New Jersey. He lives with his wife Grace and daughters Kavitha and Nithya in Princeton, NJ.