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{{Short description|Indian church leader (died 1998)}}
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| name = Lella Prakasam, [[CBCNC]]
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| birth_place = [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| death_date =18 July 1998<ref name="calvary">[http://www.cbchurchvizag.com/our%20message.aspx The Pastors Who Served Calvary. Calvary Baptist Church, Visakhapatnam]</ref>
| death_place =[[Visakhapatnam]], Andhra Pradesh
| occupation = Auxiliary Secretary, [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]]
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| congregations = [[Ichchapuram]],<ref name="Carder"/> [[Sompeta]],<ref name="calvary"/> [[Tekkali]],<ref name="Carder"/> [[Visakhapatnam]]<ref name="Carder"/>
| offices_held ={{unbulleted list|[[Chaplain]], Arogyavaram Eye Hospital, [[Sompeta]]<ref name="Carder"/>|Manager, [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]]<ref name="calvary"/> Bible House and Reading Room, [[Visakhapatnam]] {{small|(1974–1982)}}<ref name="Sowing">''Sowing Circle: The Bulletin of the [[Bible Society of India]]'', volume 13, number 3, September–December 1998, p. 14.</ref>|Auxiliary Secretary, [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]],<ref name="calvary"/> [[Secunderabad]] {{small|(1982–1998)}}<ref name="Sowing"/>}}
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'''L. Prakasam''' was a pastor of the [[Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars]] who served as the auxiliary secretary of the [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]] during the period 1982<ref name="Sowing"/>–1998,<ref name="Prema">''Prema Sakshi'', volume 6, issue 4, August 2008. pp. 11–41. ''Prema Sakshi'', a monthly registered (APTEL 07419/01/2002) magazine published by I. C. Ashok Kumar at Neena Publications, Door Number 1-5-4/1/A, First Floor, Behind Sai Raja Deluxe Cinema, Musheerabad, Hyderabad 500 048.</ref> the longest in the history of the auxiliary.

Prakasam belonged to the [[Krishna district|Krishna]] Association of the [[Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars]] and hailed from [[Akiveedu]].<ref name="Carder">W. Gordon Carder, ''On the Beginning of the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission to India'', revised version, p. 220. Cited in the Baptist Quarterly, 2008. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hLhPAQAAIAAJ]</ref>

==Ecclesiastical ministry==
===Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars===
The [[Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars]] posted Prakasam to parishes in the northern coastal area of [[Andhra Pradesh]] along the [[Bay of Bengal]] in [[Ichchapuram]], [[Sompeta]], [[Tekkali]] and [[Visakhapatnam]].<ref name="Carder"/> Prakasam was Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, [[Visakhapatnam]] in 1980–1981.<ref name="calvary"/>

===Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary===
Prakasam first joined the [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]] during the tenure of the Auxiliary Secretary [[B. G. Prasada Rao]] in 1974<ref name="Sowing"/> as Manager<ref name="Sowing"/> of the Bible House and Reading Room<ref>''The Journal of the [[Christian Medical Association of India]]'', volume 38, 1964, p. 79. [https://books.google.com/books?id=V7k6AQAAIAAJ&q=bible+house+visakhapatnam]</ref> in [[Waltair]]. In 1981, when the successive auxiliary secretary, [[T. B. D. Prakasa Rao]] was recalled by his church society, the vacant position was filled with the elevation of Prakasam as the auxiliary secretary of the [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]], who moved over to [[Secunderabad]]. During the tenure of Prakasam, revisions of the [[Bible]] in the [[Telugu language]] were periodically held by the [[Old Testament]] scholars [[Graham Ogden]], G. Babu Rao<ref name="Wilson"/> and [[G. D. V. Prasad]] and the [[New Testament]] scholar [[Jonadob Nathaniel]] from the [[Bible Society of India]], [[Bangalore]]. Prakasam was also instrumental in the modernisation<ref name="Sowing"/> of the auxiliary, ensuring that the Translations, Distribution,<ref name="Sowing"/> and Resource Mobilisation areas were developed.

After serving nearly 17 years of distinguished work at the auxiliary, Prakasam died on 18 July 1998<ref name="calvary"/> in [[Visakhapatnam]]. To fill the unexpected void, the [[Bible Society of India]] appointed<ref>''Sowing Circle: The Bulletin of the [[Bible Society of India]]'', volume 14, number 2, May–August 1999, p. 45.</ref> Prakasam's [[confidant]] and Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary [[Old Testament]] Common Language Translation Coordinator G. Babu Rao, who was a [[lecturer]] at the [[Andhra Christian Theological College]], [[Secunderabad]], and well versed with the Bible Society work as translator<ref name="Wilson">[[H. S. Wilson]] (editor), ''The Church on the Move: Essays in Honour of [[Victor Premasagar]],'' Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1988, p. vi. [https://books.google.com/books?id=S-wrAAAAMAAJ&q=babu+rao]</ref> since 1973<ref>Suppogu Israel, G. Babu Rao (translated), ''[[Book of Ruth]]'', [[Bible Society of India]], [[Bangalore]], 1976. [https://books.google.com/books?id=U_WVZwEACAAJ&q=g.babu+rao+bible+society]</ref><ref>Suppogu Israel, G. Babu Rao (translated), ''The Man You Cannot Ignore'', [[Bible Society of India]], [[Bangalore]], 1976. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_rObXwAACAAJ&q=g.babu+rao+bible+society]</ref> from the period of [[B. G. Prasada Rao]].

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{{Succession box| before=[[T. B. D. Prakasa Rao]], [[Church of South India|CSI]] 1976–1981<ref name="Prema"/>| title=Auxiliary Secretary [[Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary]], [[Secunderabad]]| after=G. Babu Rao, [[CBCNC]] 1998–2001<ref name="Prema"/>| years=1982<ref name="Sowing"/>-1998<ref name="Prema"/>}}
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[[Category:Christian clergy from Andhra Pradesh]]
[[Category:Senate of Serampore College (University) alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian translators]]
[[Category:Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars]]
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