Barnabas Ministries UK

Pastor David and Ketzy Prakasam

Pastor David and Ketzy Prakasam are the Senior Pastors of Bethel Indian Pentecostal Assemblies at Coimbatore, South India, which has more than 4500 members.  They are also the Directors of Bethel Fellowship Trust, which is involved with various social activities in the nation of India helping the poor and needy.  Pastor David Prakasam has been an instrument in establishing more than 500 churches in India and he continues to give leadership and direction to these churches.  Besides this he is also in charge of three Bible schools, where he trains hundreds of students for the ministry. Pastor David and Ketzy oversee a number of social projects including 20 orphanages, leprosy homes, widows care, and many educational and vocational training schools besides caring for the poor and down trodden through their 40 different social projects. Pastor David has spoken in many international conferences and has an apostolic calling on his life. Ketzia, his wife is a worship leader with a prophetic anointing and conducts many special seminars for women.

Rev. David Prakasam is the President of Indian Pentecostal Assemblies, Coimbatore which has planted over 450 churches in India and Nepal.

He is a graduate of English Literature from Madras University. He also got graduated with honors from the Assemblies of God Bible college, in England in the year 1976. After a decade he earned his Master of Divinity through ATA .

Rev. David Prakasam, in obedience to the vision God gave him started Bethel Faith Spark Bible College in the year 1980 and has been instrumental in sending more than 1500 graduates both men and women into the mission fields.  Most of them have planted churches in India and neighboring countries and many are now heads of institutions and church organizations and missionaries, bible school teachers and eminent Christian leaders.  The bible college was one of the first ones to be accredited by ATA and continues to grant ATA accredited theological degrees.  Now this bible college has 10 extension centers in Tamil Nadu.

Rev. David Prakasam is a Missiologist.  His main burden is to train leaders in the regional language and send them into their own mission fields.  Instead of sending missionaries from south, he established 3 mission centres in Chandigar, Mumbai and Nepal to teach and raise up local leaders.  As a result he has planted more than 150 churches in North India, central and North east India besides Nepal and Bhutan Borders.. 

Rev. David Prakasam is also a church planter.  With a vision to plant 1000 churches before 2010, under his dynamic leadership of Indian Pentecostal Assemblies, together along with his co-workers, have planted nearly 500 churches in 18 states of India in 15 different language groups. 

Rev. E. Anderson

The Forgetful Servant
by Jon Walker

“All of you, serve each other in humility, for God sets himself against the proud, but he shows favor to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5 NLT)

Serving others requires forgetfulness on your part: You need to forget your own needs.

You cannot be self-centered and serve the real needs of another person. “Don’t be selfish …,” Paul says in Philippians 2:3, “Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.” (NLT)

Jesus gave his disciples an example of this humility when he stooped to wash their feet: “So during the meal Jesus stood up and took off his outer clothing. Taking a towel, he wrapped it around his waist. Then he poured water into a bowl and began to wash the followers’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.” (John 13:4-5 NCV)

Foot-washing was customary back then (not just for pedicures!) because people wore sandals or walked barefoot on dusty roads. Usually a host had his servants do the dirty chore, but Jesus saved this service for himself, “taking the very nature of a servant ….” (Philippians 2:7 NIV)

It is interesting to note that the disciples hadn’t already taken care of the dirty feet, not even slipping into a self-service scrub. Could it be they considered this task beneath their dignity?

But it wasn’t beneath Jesus.

He placed his disciples’ needs above his own – even as he approached his darkest hour.

What does this mean?

     · The forgetful servant – The life of a servant requires a kind of forgetfulness, the ability to forget our own needs in the process of tending to someone else’s. “We should please others. If we do what helps them, we will build them up in the Lord. For even Christ didn’t please himself.” (Romans 15:2-3 NLT) Look to the needs of others, and trust God to supply your own needs. (Philippians 4:19)

     · Live well for others – “We want to live well,” Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:24, “but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well.” (MSG) Everyone we serve is someone important to serve.

     · Do what Jesus does - “Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.” (John 13:14 NIV) How would this change your marriage (or some other family), if you began to serve another person before you considered your own needs?

Rev. L. Goodwin

QUOTES

FAMOUS LEADERSHIP QUOTE FOR HIGHLY EFFECTIVE LEADERS

 “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”
- General Colin Powell

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.”
- Lee Iacocca

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
- Sam Walton

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
- Winston Churchill

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
- John Maxwell

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
- Peter Drucker

“There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”
- Robert Half