Each week Silvaraj would also worship snake gods. He would clean the place of worship and feed the cobra snakes for the Hindu priest of his village. The people in his village believed that he had the gods living inside him. They were expecting him to become the next Hindu priest of their village

Silvaraj shares his life-changing testimony; "Even though I spent much time worshipping various gods, neither I nor my family ever had any peace in our hearts. My family remained always in great need because of financial debts. One day the team from Independent Church In India came to share about Jesus in my village, but I did not receive their message. Instead, I mocked them.

I believed in my heart that the idols I was serving were the true gods. That same day, they gave me a flyer that announced that their church was having a free thirty-day spoken English course. I had a desire to learn English, so I decided to attend. When I began attending the spoken English classes, I heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ again and also heard lots of Bible teachings. After hearing God's word day after day, I decided to ask Jesus into my heart and commit my life to Him.

After finding this out, many of the people in my village began to mock me because I became a Christian. But one thing I knew was that for the first time in my whole life, I had permanent peace in my heart. I began to pray for my family's salvation and that my father would have a job so we could get out of debt. Now the Lord has provided my dad to have his own business and he has also accepted Jesus as his Savior through my witness to him.