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Welcome to WikiChristian. My name is Prab R. Tumpati. I am a full gospel Christian believer by faith and a medical doctor by profession living in the United States. I was born and brought up in a Hindu family in India who converted to Christianity due to a great healing [[miracle]] by [[God]] in our family. I grew up in a Christian missions base called [http://www.moseschoudary.org Maranatha Visvasa Samajam], started by pastor Moses Choudary, who was called to work among high caste Hindu's.
I consider myself a technology enthusiast as I taught myself a lot of computer softwares in my free time. I have started successful websites like [http://www.Residentscafe.com Residentscafe], a popular website for residents and residency applicants and [http://www.believerscafe.com Believerscafe] with over 35,000 pages for christians. I felt a strong need for building a website that would let people to edit and add on content collaboratively would be of great help. I them came across the concept of wiki's and felt that it would be great tool for building an Encyclopedia for all Christians. Having seen the phenomenal growth of some wiki's like [[http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], I thought why not have a dedicated christian encyclopedia!
While there are many wiki's for secular information, we felt a need a for a dedicated Christian wiki that will not only serve as a wiki community, but also serves as a source for information and an encyclopedia on Christianity. I strongly believe that there is strength in togetherness/unity and as a group, we can help build a free Christian Encyclopedia that represents the contemporary concepts in Christian Theology and Faith.
[[Wikichristian]] was started in January of 2005 by me, along with some friends like [[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] from Australia, in order to build an [[open source]] Christian [[Encyclopedia]]. While I did all the technical stuff in setting up the wiki and posted a lot of public domain content, [[User:Gram grove|Graham]] and many others contributed greatly in building the site up to make it one of the fastest growing wikis. In fact, the website grew to over 115 MB as of August, 2005 and was utilizing upto 95% of the server resources. It lead to temporary problems with the webhost due to high CPU usage in a shared hosting. We had finally decided to get a dedicated server to help facilitate the growth of wikichristian. Our vision is to build a free Christian Encyclopedia, public domain wiki and [[Bible]] resource and a wiki Christian community representing the contemporary church thinking and philosophy.
