Navsarjan Ministry is an Australian-based organization that my wife and I were called to lead and carry out in God’s grace. The vision was revealed to Reverend Sanjiv Christian by God’s providence in India in the year 2000. At that time, I was living in India with my wife and two children, working as an Assistant/Deputy Engineer in the state government and enjoying all worldly comforts. Although we had no intention of permanently leaving India and settling overseas, God had different plans for us. Unpleasant situations arose, causing me to rethink my life, and I felt compelled to move somewhere else.
My wife and I prayed for God’s guidance and direction in our lives, and although our extended families were settled in the US, God put Australia on my heart. Despite facing many challenges and it seeming impossible to get the Australian Permanent Residency (PR), we persisted, and in February 2000, I shared my challenges with Reverend Sanjeev, our pastor at C.N.I Church, Gandhinagar. He fasted and prayed, and God revealed to him that our medical would be cleared in April, and our visas would arrive in July, making us ambassadors of Christ in Australia. As God had promised, our medical was cleared in April 2000, and we received a call from the Australian embassy in July 2000, granting us our visas. I was granted residency with only 105 points, whereas the requirement was 110 points, but the government changed the point requirement from 110 to 105 on 27th April 2000, which remained in force only for a month.
This was clearly God’s doing. We moved to Australia on 24th August 2000 with no friends or family here, but just as God took us out of India and brought us to Australia for His ministry, He spoke to my wife on 23rd August 2000, guiding us to leave our country and relatives, as stated in Genesis 12. In 2001, we started a monthly prayer group at our place in Clayton, Victoria, with a few fellow believers. God brought His people, and in 2002, the first bible study group started with two international students, which later grew into a group of 35 individuals. God gave me the name Navsarjan Ministry, which means new creation, based on 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”