Around the World With Our Missions Committee: India

Your Missions Committee hopes you’ll find blessing in this update on India from Suraj Komaravalli, who serves with Canadian Baptist Ministires (CBM), our national Baptist ministry that serves in many ways around the world.

About Suraj

Suraj serves as Team Leader for CBM’s ministries in India, helping to develop integral mission strategies in CBM’s priority areas of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Nagaland. He manages CBM’s partnerships and ministries, including projects for kids at risk, food security and community development, leadership training, evangelism and church planting.

Suraj is committed to shaping a more contemporary and contextual approach to church-based transformational ministry in India. He initially joined CBM’s India Strategy team in 2008 as a Theological Education Consultant. He lives in Hyderabad with his wife Prasanna, and two daughters, Selina and Mounica.

Suraj’s Update to BSBC

CBM’s overarching mission is to develop a culture of Integral Mission, that is, to bring hope, healing and reconciliation through word and deed whereby making anew the worlds of the poor and needy. As such, CBM works in partnership with local Indian churches in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam and Nagaland with plans to expand to other States. 

Some of the missional projects are children and youth at risk, food security and community development, leadership training, evangelism, church planting, health care initiatives, human trafficking, faith and work initiatives, as well as relief especially during flood and Covid. Through these projects, CBM hopes to accomplish that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is shared and people respond in faith and discipleship; the lives and communities of the most vulnerable are improved; leaders are developed and equipped for missional engagement; impact is increased for common mission with partners; and local churches do impact and transform the society through Christ like behavior. 

While walking with local churches, CBM also strives for Partners’ sustainability to self-reliance so that they could continue to ministry through word and deed, and preserve and celebrate faith in God and his blessings through next generations.