Methari Kumar was studying in a parochial school, but in the 10th grade he ran out of money.
He left school and made his way to the huge city of Hyderabad, India. There he started a small business selling office supplies and doing photocopying. To keep his expenses to a minimum, he lived with a family who gave him a place to stay in their home.
Methari came from a Christian background. One day a Seventh-day Adventist pastor made friends with him. The friendship led to Bible studies. The family that Methari was staying with listened in on the studies and became especially interested in the presentation of the biblical seventh-day Sabbath.
What was of most interest to them was the origin of the Sabbath—all the way back to Creation. They had never realized that Jesus and the apostles also kept the Sabbath.
Methari began to question himself: “Why should I keep Sunday?” He and his bride and host family decided that they would keep the biblical Sabbath.
Methari couldn’t keep the good news to himself. He put someone in charge of his business, invited an Adventist pastor to accompany him, and they went back to his home village.
Together they held a series of meetings. As they taught people about the Bible Sabbath, one by one the entire membership of Methari’s former Sundaykeeping church became Seventh-day Adventists—a total of 35 families.
The old church building was only a shack. The congregation decided it was not a representative place to worship the Savior, so the members determined to prepare a proper place in which to worship and invite others to join. They secured land and built a church.
For 14 years Methari led out in this new church. He supported himself and his family with the earnings of his business. The Lord blessed his efforts.
One day Methari learned of an opportunity to expand his evangelism. Volunteers were being recruited to become Gospel Outreach workers. Without hesitation, Methari sold his business and joined Gospel Outreach. Praise the Lord for willing workers like Methari.