Founders Profile

Stella Ramola Dhinakaran

Stella Ramola is a singer, who has performed as the headliner in many concerts hosted by UTurn, where around 2000 people gathered each event. She hosted two seasons of a biblical game show called, “Do You Know Your Bible?,” which aired on regional television networks and YouTube. Because of her passion for music, Stella pursued a Bachelor of Science in Music Business and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Digital Marketing. She consistently uploads original music and covers of her favorite songs on YouTube, which has gained over 4 million views. Stella has never been inactive in ministry from her adolescence and is adored by many people for her consistency in the Jesus Calls & UTurn ministries. Stella’s heart is to encourage young people to live out their unique purpose, given to them by God, as they share His love through their life and walk in holiness. In 2019, she created a YouTube channel, naming it the same as her highly-interactive Instagram page – “Stellazlife.” Through the YouTube channel she demonstrates how young people can live their everyday lives while integrating faith into everything they do. Moreover, through her very own website, Stella shares her thoughts on biblical truths and how to incorporate faith in one’s day-to-day life and live as a young, follower of Christ.

Sharon Dhinakaran

Sharon is the elder daughter of Dr. Paul and Evangeline Paul Dhinakaran. She started to minister by singing at the age of 2 and today, she prays for people at Public Meetings. Her passion is to travel and capture the stories of people around the world. Her heart’s desire is to bring healing and deliverance, to people she meets and see them transformed through God’s love.

Sharon has pursued her Bachelors in Broadcast Communication and completed her Masters in Cinema-Television. She is also the Director of SEESHA, a humanitarian organization that helps the underprivileged, widows and orphans.

Sharon preaches and prays for thousands of people with the matchless power of the Holy Spirit, claiming God’s promises and blessings for them. She is a great inspiration and a leader of the next generation. She has also released her debut CD album titled “HOME”.

Sharon Dhinakaran is observed to be a revivalist with sympathetic compassion. She not only is active in supporting her parents in ministry but also encompasses to reap more souls through charity and loving kindness.

She is a lover of little children. She visits children who are underprivileged and nurtures them with their needs and education. Through this, Sis. Sharon takes great pleasure in proclaiming the Word of God to the little children and their families.

Sharon’s focus is to reach out to people by adapting herself to their environment. Thus, Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind. She impacts several children, with her virtue of kindness in providing their needs and also their families.

Sharon has a great interest in music and is gifted with the talent of singing. She also shares the word of God, to people of all age groups, through Television, Social Media, and Special Meetings.

Samuel Dhinakaran

Samuel Dhinakaran is an anointed man of God ministering among the youth of India and around the world. He has completely dedicated his life to serving God and His people. Over the past years, Samuel has come a long way ministering alongside his family, displaying his gifts and talents for the glory of God. During his early days, he ministered to little children and elevated to nurture young minds during his teenage. Undeterred from God’s ministry he pursued his B.Tech in India and an MBA from the University of Texas. He currently serves as the associate president-youth in the world renowned global ministry Jesus Calls which has prayer towers in 12 countries. He is the leader of UTurn, a youth ministry that aims to inculcate a holy and blameless lifestyle that glorifies God by adhering to His word and being anointed by the Holy Spirit according to Philippians 2:15. Hundreds and thousands of people gather for his meetings to receive comfort, healing and deliverance. Over 80,000 youngsters thronged to hear the Word of God Shared by Bro. Samuel, at Gujarat. Samuel has delivered the comforting Word of God to a gathering of over 400,000 people in a meeting held in Rourkela, Odisha. His meetings draw an average crowd of 100,000 people and 4000 youth. He is a worship leader, preacher, prayer intercessor and an administrator. Several of his music albums in various languages have been an all-time favourite to many people around the world. Samuel Dhinakaran is widely known to the world through television ministry as he has been consistent on Television ever since an early age of 4. His unwavering involvement in God’s ministry since his childhood has gained a great reputation among millions of people. He continues his vision of drawing young people to the love of God through crusades, campaigns, television ministry and social media. Just as his father and Grandfather, Samuel Dhinakaran precedes his ministry tirelessly with great self-sacrifices. His challenge to young people is that they can live a holy life dedicated to God and taste real happiness and power to excel to their heights in their life’s purpose.

What is UTurn?

UTurn is a lifestyle which a young person can lead to find great happiness and power in their life to excel in their life’s purpose.

Become blameless and pure children of God, then you will shine like stars in the sky – Philippians 2:15

Vision

To guide young people to walk hand in hand with Jesus, shining like stars in their life.

Mission

Connecting with the youth
Caring for the youth
Training the youth
Empowering the youth In the UTurn lifestyle…

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Sis. Stella Dhinakaran

She was chosen by God for a divine purpose. She was united in Holy Matrimony to the young man Dhinakaran, who was working in a bank. This God fearing couple started building their family life on prayer. They had to go through lot of pain and suffering in their early stages of marriage, as they lost the precious gift of their child on two occasions. She along with her husband continued to hold on to God and prayed for the gift of child. God blessed them with a beautiful baby boy on 4th of September 1962 and later a baby girl on 4th November, 1969.

In the early days of their ministry, she supported her husband Dr. Dhinakaran by caring and serving the pastors and people who came to meet him. She was faithful in this God given responsibility. God filled her with the Holy Spirit and transformed the timid person to a bold woman of prayer, like Esther and Deborah. She became a comforter of women and built thousands of families through her prayers and words of encouragement from the scriptures. As the ministry grew, she supported Dr. Dhinakaran by replying to hundreds of people who wrote to him and through her fervent prayers for them.

In the year 1988, after losing dear daughter Angel, the Lord gave the divine Ministry of Esther Prayer Group(EPG) to Sister Stella Dhinakaran. What started as mustard seed with 1 group has now grown with 1000’s of EPGs all over the world.

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Sis. Evangeline Paul Dhinakaran

A soft spoken, timid young girl (Evangeline) became a part of the family of Dhinakarans through her marriage to Dr. Paul Dhinakaran on 2nd of June 1989. Born on April 24, 1968, Evangeline was a perfect gift and treasure according to God’s plan in the life of Dr. Paul Dhinakaran.

Today, she stands as a mighty servant of God before thousands of people, roaring and bringing God’s mighty presence and power through prayer. Whenever she prays, the Spirit of God moves in a mighty way and thousands of people are filled with the power of God and receive gifts of the Holy Spirit. She started her ministry in a very innocent way among the youth and later on was the Editor of True Friend, a magazine especially meant for the youngsters. God expanded the boundaries of her ministry, and now she preaches the word of God in Public Prayer Festivals where 300,000 to 500,000 people gather. She ministers in all the key Jesus Calls meetings and especially to the families and women through the Family Blessing Meeting.

By the grace of God, many are witnessing mighty miracles and deliverance from bondage and sickness in her ministry. Many who have been oppressed from the evil spirit are delivered during her prayer time. Broken families are united. Young men and women open their hearts to Jesus in their lives, hearing her messages.

With a great burden to pray and intercede for people specially during this season of global crisis, she has started ‘Trumpet Prayer Group’ in which 1000’s of Prayer Intercessors pray at homes and she joins as often as she could. Click to join as a TPG Prayer Intercessor

Dr. Paul Dhinakaran

Dr. Paul Dhinakaran Founder - Jesus Calls Ministries

Dr. Paul Dhinakaran was born to (Late) Dr. D.G.S. Dhinakaran and Mrs. Stella Dhinakaran on 4th September, 1962. He graduated as a Gold Medalist from Loyola College, Chennai, with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, and went on to complete his MBA and then earned his Ph.D in Management at the age of 26. He credits his spiritual transformation to his Godly parents – his father’s prophetic voice and mother’s unswerving fasting and prayer for him. His wife Evangeline ministers by his side, powerfully with grace and compassion for the millions. Their three children, Samuel, Sharon and Stella Ramola pursue the same mission empowered with divine compassion. They minister as a family, with the sole mission to ensure that no soul is lost.

Dr. Paul Dhinakaran, has been called by the Lord to convey the Lord’s unfailing love to the broken hearted, through prayer and to raise young professionals in technology, as today’s Daniels and Josephs. He is also a friend of the poor and needy, caring for thousands of them and providing hope for their future. His service to humanity has spanned 35 years. His heart’s cry and mission in life is to turn everyone’s sorrow into joy. His journey of faith began when he accepted the Lord Jesus as his personal Savior in his 18th year and dedicated his life to serve the people. Empowered by God’s love and grace, his mission has touched millions positively.

He heads The Jesus Calls Ministry of prayer where he along with his family and team, conduct Prayer Festivals across India, having a profound impact on the gathering of up to 500,000 during each service. 128 Prayer Towers, across the world, have been established under his leadership where nearly 500,000 call for prayer each month, around the clock. Dr. Paul, has been led to pray for the leaders of Governments. He also organizes 36 hours Esther fasting prayer, uniting all churches and people from all backgrounds, to pray for God’s will to be perfected in each election. He has also established 24-hour Prayer Tower in New Delhi and in Jerusalem. It is situated across the Parliament in New Delhi and on the 20th floor in Ben Yehuda street overlooking Jerusalem respectively to pray with burden for the will of God to be done in the Nations and Governments. Through his ministry, millions have experienced divine peace and well-being. Broken families have been rebuilt and each one have found a meaning in life. Nearly 20,000 prayer intercessors, from 12 countries have been trained personally by Dr. Paul, to serve God by standing in the gap. The Jesus Calls TV ministry, telecasts 400 programs a month, in 10 different languages across the globe, containing real life stories from people who have overcome their troubles through faith and prayer along with hope. Dr. Paul and his family brings hope and encouragement to 10 million people through social media alone.

Dr. Paul was appointed by the Government of India as a member of the National Monitoring Committee for Minority Education and as a Governing Council member of the Education For Each, child program. He is also the Chancellor of the Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences(Deemed to be University) in India, founded in 1986 where 8000 students study Science and Technology, Engineering, Arts, Media, Agriculture and Management courses. It is ranked among the first 50 Institutions in India. Nearly 27,000 have graduated with undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D degrees. The Institute, is engaged in cutting edge research work in the areas of Food, Water, Health care and Energy, to solve the problems of humanity. Click to know about Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences

Dr. Paul Dhinakaran established SEESHA (Samiti for Education Environment Social and Health Action) a humanitarian outreach mission to care for poor children; materially, morally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and educationally. Seesha, also provides food, housing, medical services for widows, physically and mentally challenged children, the poor who have lost their homes through natural disasters and more. Click to know about SEESHA

With each passing day, God is using him mightily in his service. Many thirsty souls are being drawn close to God because of Dr. Paul’s Prayer and Ministry.

Dr. D G S Dhinakaran

Dr. D.G.S Dhinakaran Founder - Jesus Calls Ministries

A young man depressed and unable to bear the anguish of poverty, sickness, unemployment, and failures in life, and in an attempt to put an end to all the miseries of his life, walked towards the railway track to commit suicide. On the way, he met his uncle who shared about Jesus Christ. Those words served as a balm to his bruised heart. His uncle told him to go home and commit his ways to the Lord. He prayed and committed his life to the Saviour, and returned home with newfound hope. The joy of salvation filled his heart. This young man was none other than the late Dr D.G.S Dhinakaran.

A Supernatural Experience: After this incident, he started seeking the Lord fervently, reading the scriptures, and waiting in the presence of the Lord for many hours. He did this diligently for seven long years – pleading, “Lord! Hear my prayer and grant me your power! I don’t want to live a dried-up Christian life anymore!” He wanted to have communion with God like the saints in the Bible had. On October 10, 1962, during a time of family prayer, a divine presence filled the room. He indeed, saw the Lord Jesus Christ face to face, and he heard Him say, “I am Jesus. I have come to bless you”. The Lord filled him with His Holy Spirit. He said, “Son, this world has only heard about my love and compassion. However, it has not seen it in a person’s life. Today, I am filling you with the same spirit of compassion that I had when I was in this world two thousand years ago. Every time you are moved with this compassion, whatever you ask for my people, it shall be granted.”

Supernatural Ministry: After this spectacular supernatural encounter with God, the life of Dr D.G.S Dhinakaran took a new dimension. Every time he prayed for people, he could literally feel the presence of God and the compassion of the Lord filling his heart. The gifts of the Holy Spirit began to operate in a great measure, and mighty miracles took place bringing glory to God.

MILESTONES IN THE MINISTRY

First radio message – FEBA Radio, March 2, 1972
First overseas ministry trip – Sri Lanka 1973
First Jesus Calls Magazine published- May 1973
September 26, 1977– The Lord Jesus appeared to him. Filled him with the power of the Holy Spirit, and commanded him to train people to preach the Gospel.
The first Institute of Power Ministry opened – Chennai, India: July 1980.
August 12, 1983– The Holy Spirit guided him to build a Prayer Tower for those in need of prayers at any time of the day.
July 25, 1985– The Lord Jesus appeared and revealed the plan for the young people who want to join as partners with Jesus Calls.
Bethesda Prayer Center in Coimbatore, India, launched- October 10, 1993
Karunya Institute of Technology opens a residential Engineering College following the divine plan of God- November 4, 1986.

THE GREAT SACRIFICE

On May 21, 1986, a great tragedy struck this servant of God. He lost his only beloved daughter, Angel. On his way from the airport for an important meeting regarding the establishment of Karunya Institute of Technology, they met with a car accident Shattered and broken by this terrible disaster, it took great courage and God’s strength to recover from this agony.

HONOUR AMONG THE LEADERS

Truly, Dr D.G.S. Dhinakaran was a man after God’s own heart, who prayed for brokenhearted people that our God would turn their sorrows into joy! He took healing to the people through the love & compassion of Jesus Christ. In a remark regarding the life of Dr D.G.S Dhinakaran, Dr Pat Robertson, Chairman of CBN, said, “Frankly, I cannot recall any figure in the Old Testament or New Testament who has had such a profound and ongoing encounter with the Deity.”

Great servants of God such as Rev. Pastor Benny Hinn, Dr Pat Robertson, Dr Dave Roberson, and Pastor John Osteen honoured Dr D.G.S. Dhinakaran as the Apostle of this age in India. Even the secular leaders and the leaders of the nations respected him and honoured him and sought his prayers and wisdom in times of need.

This great man of God, who obeyed the Lord and stood faithful in all the missions and plans given to him by God entered glory on February the 20th, 2008. Thousands of people came to have a glimpse of the man who stood in the gap to intercede for them.