The story of The New Life India began much earlier. Pastor Joseph (1930-2005)(The father of our president David Joseph) is known as the most influential evangelist and effective servant of God of His time. He lived so that people could only see Jesus and experience His unfailing love .
As The Lord so destined him to become His servant that he left His job and all he had and took his family to Tenali where he believed God was calling to minister the Gospel. Amidst great sufferings and adversity from the people of India he did great work for Him.
He travelled every day miles of distance on foot to reach out to the lost with the glad tidings of Christ and the practical love. He led thousands of people to a personnel relationship with Jesus Christ.
He is one of greatly loved preachers of his days .He founded many New testament based assemblies in different places of India. He personally influenced and trained so many young people to be ministers of Christ .After fruitful life during which he served God in the most extraordinary ways he finally died on 28th April 2005


