Arun David Kadambavanam (Drummer)
My Story
“I’m a sinner and Jesus is my savior”, this is my testimony in one sentence. How I came to believe this, is the longer part. I grew up in a Christian home and had the privilege of being taught the Bible in Sunday school, family and church. However, for the most part I thought myself to be a Christian because the rest of my family was. But soon I learned that each person has to make an individual decision to follow Jesus. I made that when I think I was 14. My mother sat down with me, clearly explained the whole Gospel message and prayed with me. When I was around 19 yrs I started to struggle with a lot of doubt. I won’t say that I had no faith because I did love and cherish the Lord Jesus, but in fact when I struggled with doubt my world was messed up because the only thing that I had lived for was now being taken away. My faith was weak not resting on knowledge. So I began to read and pour over the bible, I began to ask people my questions and clarified things. God in his mercy brought about these events and struggles to strengthen my faith in Him. As the bible says -‘he works all things for the good of those who love him’ (Romans). I believe in Jesus as the only one to make peace between me and God, to make me friends with God and to guarantee me an eternal fellowship with God. I am convinced of the truth, by the grace and strength of the Holy Spirit. I pray and will strive to live for him. My favourite verse is (Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.Presently I’m working full time with the church (Delhi Bible Fellowship): studying & teaching Bible to mostly youth.
I like music and would love to serve God by using my talents by making God known through Christian songs. I believe music is a great way to worship God apart from living a Godly lifestyle. The New Testament is full of instructions for believers to worship God thought songs, hymns and spiritual songs. And off course I love playing the drums!
I desire to minister to anyone who’s willing to come and listen! I would love to draw non-Christians so that they may hear Jesus’ name proclaimed through the songs, and would love to lead believers in worshipping God through songs.
Donna Gonmei (Acoustic guitar/vocals)
My Story
I was a very ambitious person. All I wanted were the good things of life and to achieve something big. God blessed me with the talent of singing and my grandpa saw that too. But somehow music in me faded away as I went looking for success in my life. I knew so little about my wonderful, most amazing savior. But looking back now, I know that God was slowly and steadily preparing me for something else than what I had intended to be. Earlier I would pray and read the Bible and stuff like that but with very little interests. BUT 2009 was when God opened my eyes. He started the real work in me. I could see that what I’d always run after was never what Jesus wanted for me. God took me through serious events, good and bad and He showed me who He really was and what He wanted of me. It’s a long story but all I can say is God’s love changed me inside out. He was and is and forever will be, all that I need. The greatest thing that has ever happened to me is how God changed my perspective of life. Now I know from my heart that I live for Jesus who loved me with His life. He’s a God who gave me a worth when I was yet a worthless sinner. O how I love Jesus!
I can boldly say that Jesus is more than a friend to me.. He lives in me. I want people to see Jesus in me. I can go on.. He changed me and He still is working on me everyday. I desire to become more and more like him in this journey of life. He is my greatest joy and the best thing ever happened to me.
Worship is one thing we will continue doing even in heaven. And God’s presence can come to us through worship (music). I want to sing to Him with all that I am. God gave me this talent of singing and worship and I want to use it for Him alone
My aim is that God will bring people to Him through music and through me. My goal with band is to see us serve God faithfully. I want to reach out especially to the young girls as God has placed a vision and a burden in my heart for them, those who especially have a low self esteem. God works wonders if we let Him work on us. I want Jesus to fulfill His will through me just as it is in heaven.
Jonathan Singh (Bassist)
My Story
I was born in a Christian family. God blessed me with parents who are believers and since childhood I was brought up in a Bible centered atmosphere. I knew about God, the gospel. However, I didn’t experience God. It was merely knowledge about Him. God wasn’t an important part of my life until 2 years ago when situations and circumstances arose in my life that were out of my control. I realized that I coudnt go on in life ignoring God. I started reading the Bible and God started talking to me through it.The Holy Spirit convicted me and I committed my life to God and over a period of time started to see the changes in me. The bible started becoming more than a book to me. The word of God is a two edged sword and I second it. All this didn’t happen to me in a particular day but it was a gradual process and God is still working on me and changing me. Looking back in my life I can clearly see God’s hand in my life. Although I didn’t know then, I see now. God has a specific plan for my life. Above everything else I want Him to use me in whatever way He thinks is best.
My main aim to be in the band is to use my talents for God. I want the Gospel proclaimed through our band. Even out of a thousand people if a single person comes to God through our band I think our band is doing what its supposed to. I like to play music. Using our interests and talents for God….nothing like it.
I want our music and songs to minister and be used as an instrument by God to reach out to whoever is seeking Him.
David Singh (Electric guitar/vocals)
My Story
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for God is with me”. This is exactly how God revealed Himself to me. My life with Jesus before knowing him was like a cartoon episode of Tom and Jerry. I kept running and escaping my way out like Jerry would, while I thought God was like Tom chasing me to make me his servant. I comprehended that once I’d give myself to Jesus I’d be nothing but a pathetic little slave bound by laws of do’s and don’ts of religiosity. That was because I was driven by my sinful desires and pleasure. What I failed to understand was that God is not like Tom. But one characteristic that Tom always displayed was perseverance to pursue Jerry. Similarly, God did the same with me. He pursued me even when I was sprinting away from him. That just overwhelms me because it assures me of the great love of Christ to such an extent that he gave his life for me on the cross, while I was the one who deserved that. Now notice that Tom would never give his life for Jerry. But God is just the opposite, he died for me and saved me while I was yet a sinner and rejected him. Would anybody in this world do such a thing? People wouldn’t even give there life away for someone whom they know, then how would they give for someone that rejected them. This is how great the love of God is…….
October 2006, it’s been a month and I’m still sick. Lying on the bed and not feeling normal for a long time. Visited so many doctors within that month but no cure worked out completely. Finally a doctor’s medication worked. Started going to school again and within just 4 days my temperature one fine night shot up high and there I was, sick again. This time worst. I remember being rushed to the hospital and taken into emergency ward. Reports came and doctors came but healing didn’t come. I had questions and grudges against God. Why Lord Why? After all I wasn’t a very bad boy. First week of November it was, that I was admitted into the hospital. I had typhoid for a month and I was too weak after I fell sick again. I was bones! My condition got worst and worst and I didn’t know what was going to happen to me. On my birthday my health grew worst. I felt miserable, not just physically but even mentally and emotionally. I never told anyone what was going in my mind then. I used to kind of fall into like a Trans and see a dream that I’m on a steep slope and there are people all around and they are easily going up and down the steep road. But I saw myself slipping downwards and I heard the Devil say to me that just like I’m slipping downwards so will I die soon. It really bothered me. I searched God, but felt all alone. I wondered, what is God’s plan in this?
I was terribly ill and the doctors diagnosed me of Dengue, malaria and typhoid all at the same time. This was the reason I was so weak and was in a risk of bleeding out due to the drop in the platelet count in my blood. It went really low and I needed transfusion of blood. God worked way out to get blood for me. On the night of my birthday they transfused blood platelets in me. That very night my health grew, from bad to worst. I had never seen my parents so troubled like on that day. I had kind of given up hope. But I didn’t know that God was in control all this time. While my health was in a pathetic state at midnight, I asked my parents to pray for me. When they started praying for me I just broke down into tears and God took complete charge of the moment and started revealing to me all my past sins like a movie. I confessed all my sins and asked Jesus to come into my heart that very night and I was born again. This lasted for about two hours. This was the very moment God had planned for me in this tuff time that I went through. He turned my sickness into a blessing in disguise. The very next morning I was so much better, stronger and healthier and the doctors were amazed to see that, and said that they need to keep me just one more day in the hospital under observation to be sure of the cure. Now I look back and thank God for even that sickness that came on me which could have taken my life away, but was in turn God’s plan to bring me to him.
November 10th 2006, on my birthday was when I was born again as a new creation of Jesus. Till today I follow Him and strive hard to draw closer to him every single day and I have made a life long commitment to serve my Lord Jesus, not like a pathetic slave but as a proud son of His, ready to give up anything for my Lord. Now I know that accepting Jesus as my Saviour is not about do’s and don’ts but about freedom and liberty from the do’s and don’ts of darkness.
When God gave me the vision to start this band, I was filled with excitement because it has always been my dream to use my skills of playing guitar and singing for the change in the lives of many. To bring them to God. I play in the and not just for fun but also for a deeper purpose and a calling that God has placed in my heart.
God has been revealing his plans to me to minister among the people who are unreached and desperate for help and rescue. Those people whom others may not even want to be near to, and may look down at or even hate them. I believe this is my calling and God is preparing me for this work, and this band is the tool that I see to accomplish this little vision of mine.
Tipskhem (Rhythm guitar/vocals)
My Story
I was raised in a Christian family since childhood. I grew up in a Christian community, been in church activities, and I'm always in the music ministry or anything that is relating to music. I gave my life to the Lord Jesus when I was in 10 grade in school and was baptized the same year. Living under God’s guidance and presence is a privilege that I never deserve as a sinful man. It’s the safest place in the world where u would find peace, the fruit of the spirit (galatians 5:22). But I never proclaim that I’m a perfect person I had made mistakes in my life earlier and still am, but God Grace and Mercy are new every morning. I still sometimes slip and fall but God is shaping and molding me. The work that he has started in me He will take it to completion and I firmly believe in it.
My goal as a member of Laminin is to give back what God has given me, to do my best to win many souls through the ministry of our band.