Thursday, September 17, 2015

About Jebamony Mathias

Jebamony Mathias is an Instrumentation Engineer. He was born in a village with 8 siblings. His father is a Palmyra tree climber and mother is a home maker. 

St Xavier’s College, Palayam Kottai, India honoured him with a Science degree in 1988. Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, India awarded a graduate and a post graduate degree in Instrumentation Engineering in 1991 and 1993 respectively. Tata Consultancy Services hired him as a software Engineer in 1993. 

Jebmony Mathias was in the United States working for S&P Credit Rating division, New York in Nov 2001. By then, he was suffering from dreary kidney disease and finally the kidneys were about to fail. His wife was 7 months pregnant then.They landed in India on emergency to count down the days.

God blessed them a baby girl, named Nivetha on 9th February 2002. He underwent Kidney Transplantation on 14th May 2002 at Apollo hospital Chennai. His younger sister Prema Latha donated her kidney and thus he is distilled with a second life.

He refers his later life as ‘Second Life’ a revived renewed life. He is blessed to reorganize his life. Helping to orphanages. Educational sponsorship to hill tribe children. He likes to visit of missionary fields and Churches. 


He looks for a spiritual transcendence; interested to work for the hill tribes’ education and looks for neither an unparalleled career nor a highest civilian award, but, to serve the poor and teach the Gospel.