Peter Elvin
President
Peter is the President of Peter Elvin Ministries and Pastor at Shalom Church, India. He was born in a Hindu family in a small village called Peddavadlapudi, Andhra Pradesh, a central province of South India. Peter’s family used to worship idols and one day he heard a street evangelist preaching that Jesus Christ could transform lives. Disgusted with his own life Peter prayed to Jesus if you can lead me away from this miserable life and make me a new person then I’ll serve you for the rest of my life. God heard his prayers and changed him into a whole new person. Due to his word, Peter began to preach Christ Crucified at the tender age of 17, and by God’s leading, he started PEM (Peter Elvin Ministries) when he was just 19. Peter is serving alongside his father in Shalom Church, India which is purely bible based and a mission-focused church where the un-compromised word of God is the final authority. God started to use this young man of God to bring revival wherever he went, and he traveled to more than 4 countries to share the message of salvation. Peter is doing his Master’s at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. It’s Peter’s vision to see “Blood Washed India” for Jesus; more than 1.8 billion people should know the redemptive work of Christ in their lives before he dies. He always believes that “God doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called” and the God who called HE faithful.
Pastor Francis
Director
Rev. Francis has been serving the Lord faithfully for the past 20 years as a senior pastor at Shalom Church, India. Francis was a Leukemia patient he was in the Coma for 2 years and miraculously God healed him on the day of Good Friday. He was homeless for almost 4 years and stayed under the bridge and was no food, clothes, or shelter. When Francis came to know the saving knowledge of Christ all his relatives rejected him to be their relative, but he didn’t worry because he knows the God who called him, he is faithful. He started Shalom Church, India on January 3, 1999, to glorify God with 2 people and now God has blessed his ministry with more than 600 believers. God has blessed him with a beautiful wife name Rani with two sons Peter and Shalom, who are currently helping him with his ministry and serving alongside his father. Francis was jailed more than 7 times because of sharing God’s word in Muslim and Hindu communities. It’s Francis’s goal to introduce the living Saviour and save some souls before Jesus’ second coming.
Rev. Shalom Nemalikanti
International Outreach Director
Pastor Shalom dedicated his life to the Lord’s work very young age of 9. His passion is to see Christ’s body should unite to change the world for Christ’s second coming. Rev. Shalom is currently serving as a pastor at Shalom Church, India, and leading missions and training young men and women of God in God’s Powerful word. Pastor Shalom Takes care of heavy responsibilities such as Church Planting Movement, TV ministries, and Management of the Widow home and he is a huge blessing to Peter Elvin Ministries and Shalom Church, India. It’s Pastor Shalom’s passion to travel all over the world and conduct large crusades for Christ and make known his name to the ends of the earth. Shalom is doing his Ph.D. at Dallas Baptist University.
Pastor Rani
Co-Director
Rani is the wife of Pastor Francis and a beloved mother of Pas. Shalom & Peter. Rani has been serving as a Co-Pastor at Shalom Church, India, and a caretaker for all 40 orphans in Shalom Mission Orphanage. She is so dedicated to serving and wakes up early morning 4 o clock every day to prepare delicious food for orphans & Widows and shows Christ’s love to them as a real mother. Rani was gifted in writing, composing, and tuning spiritual songs for the edification of the Church and she wrote more than 40 songs. It’s Rani’s dream and passion to see all the orphans may grow in the Lord and they should be a blessing to the nations in the days to come. She believes that “Nothing is precious in this world except serving the Lord Almighty and helping the poor in Jesus’ name.”