Emmanuel and Sucheta Endigeri

Emmanuel and Sucheta Endigeri have served in Trinidad, West Indies since 1981. Originally from India, they work among the island's Hindu community. Their ministry has ranged from church planting, begun by visiting villages and holding Bible studies in willing homes, to radio and children's ministry. Their Hindi-language gospel radio program was a strong draw for the local population, and Emmanuel taught religious instruction in local high schools and produced a weekly gospel pamphlet called The Hidden Treasures. Sucheta has served the island's women in tangible ways for decades, many coming to see her as a second mother, and Emmanuel has trained young men from his home country of India for church ministry.

Emmanuel and Sucheta married in 1966 and started a house church that drew families from every caste. In 1977 they visited Trinidad and Tobago and, discovering its large population of third-generation Hindu Indians, sensed an opportunity for ministry. Commissioned by TEAM Missions in 1980, they planted five churches between 1982 and 1995 and trained local leaders to carry the work forward; those churches are now combined into two congregations, in Todd's Road and Calcutta, Trinidad. Since entering semi-retirement in 2017, Emmanuel continues discipling and training young men while Sucheta serves the women and cares for the family. Their daughter Supriya and her husband Kevin now care for them and help carry the ministry forward.

Emmanuel's call to missions came from before his birth. His mother, facing complications in her eleventh pregnancy, prayed that God would save them both and promised to dedicate the child to the mission field if He did. At seventeen, preparing to become a pilot, Emmanuel was instead sent to seminary by his mother, where he accepted Christ, a decision that redirected his life. For the next twelve years he traveled village to village by bicycle sharing the gospel.

Sucheta was born into a nominally Christian home and came to faith only after marrying Emmanuel, following a vivid dream during their honeymoon of being left behind at the Rapture. The next morning Emmanuel shared Scripture with her and prayed as she accepted Christ.

Emmanuel and Sucheta have three married daughters, Mahima, Monisha, and Supriya, and seven grandchildren: Faith, Hope, Ocean, Luke, Alex, Elias, and Rosalina.