About Joy Punnoose

 

 

Joy Punnoose is the president of Native Missionary Movement. He is a pastor, a teacher, and  an author, having earned a Ph.D. in Missiology. Joy divides his time between travel in North America—creating awareness of the Lord’s work in India—and travel to India itself, strengthening pastors and missionaries in Jesus Christ and preaching the Gospel to hungry souls.

 

 

Joy has written several books. His latest effort, Live For a Cause, chronicles many of his own experiences and those of many of his comrades. Written as a missions challenge, the book’s subtitle, Radical Christianity That Reaches the World calls everyone to accept their Christ-mandated call to enter the global mission field in these last days.

 

 

After committing his life to Jesus as a young man in southern India, Joy answered the Lord’s call to the mission fields of the north—a home to 600 million people who had never heard of Jesus and a stronghold of Hinduism. After marrying, he and his wife, Grace, entered the fertile fields of Gujarat state, resulting in thousands of mostly low-caste and Dalit (“untouchable”) people finding salvation in Christ.

 

 

Following the death of Dr. Thomas Mathews—pioneer missionary, founder of Native Missionary Movement, and Joy’s father-in-law—Joy assumed the president’s role.

 

 

Today, Joy works with the leadership of NMM and church-planting pastors in North India who pioneer hundreds of local churches every year. Those in NMM have lived lives of great sacrifice to bring the Gospel to their nation. Joy’s avowed purpose is to see everyone strengthened in their relationship with Jesus Christ so that He may work through each one to seek and save the lost.

 

 

In addition, he shares the resounding success of NMM with Christian groups small and large throughout the United States and Canada. Joy currently resides in London, Ontario in Canada with Grace and their two sons, Jonathan and Joel.