Rev. Sudhakar Mondithoka

About

Rev. Sudhakar Mondithoka had a life-transforming encounter with Christ as a teen-ager in 1975 and has been involved in Christian ministry right from his student days (in the UESI – Union of Evangelical Students of India) and in his local church. He has three graduate degrees – M. Sc (Zoology – specializing in Entomology and Neurophysiology), M. Ed (School Administration) from Osmania University, Hyderabad and M. A (Philosophy of Religion and Ethics) from Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, USA. After working for a short time as an Entomological Officer with the Andhra Pradesh State Health Department, he has taught Zoology for over 9 years (Lecturer) in the prestigious Wesley and Loyola institutions in Andhra Pradesh. He has been a Visiting Professor/Faculty of ‘Contemporary World Religions & Christian Apologetics’ and ‘Ethics’ at SAIACS where he taught the M. A. 2nd Year Students and ‘Christian Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion’ at SABC where he teaches the M. Div., 2nd/3rd Year Students (has been teaching for 15 years). He has also taught Christian Apologetics at ICCS (International College of Cultural Studies), OM-India, Hyderabad. He has also lectured at a number of other Seminaries/Bible Colleges: GFABS, NEIBBCS, Ichthous Bible College, IEM Bible College, New Life College, etc

He has authored a small book God – Science and Scientists and has contributed a chapter Apologetic in a Hindu Context for a book Missiology for the 21st Century: South Asian Perspective (Delhi: ISPCK-MIIS, 2004). He has also contributed a major article Incarnation, the Mission Theology of for the IVP Dictionary of Mission Theology that was published in September 2007 and a number of other articles for Apologia, Vidyarthi Jwala, The Answer, Harvest Times for Your Family, In Touch India, India Church Growth Quarterly, etc. He is a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society and Evangelical Theological Society, USA. While at Talbot, he won the prestigious Baker Book House Award for Excellence in the Study of Theology. He was ordained in their Local Church in the US, East West Community Church (part of the NABC – North American Baptist Conference) in 2001.

From 1994 Aug. to 2006 Jan. he worked with RZIM Life Focus Society (as Asst. Director, Director-Ministries, and finally as Executive Director), which is involved in evangelism (under-girded by apologetics) among thinkers and opinion makers and in training Christian professionals, leaders, and Seminary Students in apologetics.

He served as the Executive Director of RZIM-India and also as the Editor and Publisher of a Quarterly Magazine Apologia: Reasoned Answers for Life, for three years from its inception.

He has spoken in over 17 countries (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Brazil, Kuwait, Oman, Dubai, Ecuador, Nepal, etc.,) and also in some of the best Universities and Institutions of Higher Education in India (in over 150 College/University campuses), like the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IITs, IIMs, Hyderabad Central University, M.S. University, Baroda, S.P. University, Anand, Andhra University, Nagarjuna University, APAU (Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, NEHU (North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Punjab University, Chandigarh, Vikram University, Ujjain, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (in Hyderabad and Kakinada), Osmania University, Hyderabad, University of Mumbai, etc.

He has spoken in almost all major Denominational Church and Para-Church settings throughout India. He also served as the Pastor of the English Congregation at Centenary Baptist Church, Secunderabad for SIX years.

He has been featured in the All India Radio Yuva Vani (English Program) several times and in the Debate Room Program of I News Channel twice. He has been featured regularly in the Live Q&A Program (Asalina Prashna Sisalina Jawabu) on Rakshana TV and in different kinds of programs on Aradana TV (especially the English Program – PROBE), Subhavartha TV, Velugu TV, Calvary TV and so on.

Rev. Mondithoka is now the Director of HITHA (Hyderabad Institute of Theology and Apologetics), Faculty in Apologetics at HITHA, and also a Free-Lance Writer-Speaker and Apologist-Evangelist. He lives in Hyderabad with his wife, Mrs. Santha Kumari and son, Shamuel Susheel. They are members of the Centenary Baptist Church, Secunderabad.