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New Life Fellowship, HSR Layout

Leadership

Our pastors

The people God used to begin New Life Fellowship, and the leadership that carries the vision today.

Founders

In loving memory

The late Pastor V.M. Samuel & Somey

Pastor V.M. Samuel and his wife, Somey, founded the New Life Fellowship. In 1983 the Lord impressed on them to move out of Mumbai and pioneer a church in Mangalore, and from there God gave them a vision for a church-planting movement across Karnataka — one of the most unreached states in South India.

Pastor Sam served as chairman of the NLF Trust and oversaw the fellowship's churches across Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Middle East. Affectionately called Uncle Sam and Aunty Somey, they have been spiritual parents to hundreds of individuals and couples who were also recipients of their love and hospitality.

They have two daughters, two sons-in-law and three grandchildren.

  1. 1983

    Mangalore

    The Lord impressed on Pastor V.M. Samuel and his wife, Somey, to move out of Mumbai and pioneer a church in Mangalore, Karnataka.

  2. 1987

    Bangalore

    They handed the Mangalore churches to Pastor Donald Menezes and Winnie, and shifted base to Bangalore to lead the church-planting movement.

  3. Today

    South India & the Middle East

    New Life Fellowship churches carry the same mandate across Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Middle East — Grow. Go. Give.

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