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Dr. B.V.S.N. Rao was born in 1948 in a strong traditional Hindu caste. He was a Pharma Marketing consultant by Profession and a Post-Graduate in Alternative System of Medicine. In an encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ he embraced Jesus Christ through the healing miracle of his wife B. Shoba Rao. She was suffering from Ischemic Heart Disease, Intestinal Perforation, Mal-absorption Syndrome, Water Retention and a Spinal Ligimental Crack. She was very sick and bed-ridden for 8yrs, with failed Cardiac Surgery attempts. Many Occult & Religious remedies were proved futile. Treatment in the systems of Allopathic & Alternative medicines also failed to cure her. She was bed-ridden waiting for death for over 8 years. At last when she attended a Gospel Healing Campaign on Dec. 11, 88, she was touched by the Word of God and was healed of all the ailments instantaneously against all medical knowledge. The miraculous manifestation of the Holy Spirit through the healing power of the Almighty Jesus Christ healed her.

Having experienced the power of God, this couple along with the other family members accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord and converted to Christianity. In the initial days of their conversion, they were physically threatened by their cast & religious traditionalists to the extent of physical elimination and were almost declared as outcasts by the native Hindu Society. They were protected by God's Grace.

As the Lord Jesus commands in Mark 16:15, this couple has dedicated themselves to the Lord's ministry on April 24, 94 and were ordained by many of God's servants and ministers in Vijayawada. Since then Progressive Faith Ministries took it's roots in the Lord. The first step resulted in starting many programmes to proclaim the Love, Power and Divinity of Jesus Christ in India.Dr. Rao came into the full time Ministry during 1999.

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