Writeup for Chennai Church 20th Anniversary

The Hyderabad church is truly grateful for the sacrifice of the mission team members who had come from Chennai to start the Church here in 1994. 13 disciples from Chennai and 3 disciples from Bangalore had joined together to plant the church here.

Jonny, Anne, Johnson, Stella, Kondaiah, Gomathi, Chamu, Mani meghalai, Cecily, Prem, Varghese, Govind and Sumathi were the mission team members from Chennai.

They had the first service on Oct 2^nd 1994 and had 106 visitors. The very first month they had two men baptized - Sampath and Jeeva.

Sampath and his wife Ramani had also led the mission team to Vishakapatnam in 2000.

At present the membership of the church in Hyderabad is 152 and Vishakapatnam is 21.

The different leaders who led the church in Hyderabad are

1. 1994: Jonny and Anne
2. 1995: Raja and Debbi for 3 months
3. 1996-2003: Andrew and Rachel.
4. 2004-09: Raghu and Anne
5. 2009 …..: Francis and Banu Annareddy.

It gives us great pleasure to know that the Chennai church is celebrating its 20th anniversary on 13 September 09. Our wishes and prayers are with all the disciples there. We are really grateful for the hardwork of the leadership up in Chennai for building our Church in the image of Christ.