Angelo Pullenayegam

Angelo was raised in the Catholic faith, a tradition he holds with deep respect for its centuries of theological and liturgical heritage. That reverence for God was not merely inherited; it was personal. As a young man, he entered the seminary of the Heralds of the Gospel in Sri Lanka, spending a year in formal study of theology and philosophy, shaped by the rigour and devotion of that sacred formation. But even within those walls, a hunger grew in him that the institution alone could not fill, a yearning not just for knowledge about God, but for an encounter with the living God Himself.

He left, and for a season, went astray. The road was long. But grace, as it always does, found him.

It was through his uncle Noel Sudarshan, also a Catholic Lay preacher, that Angelo was introduced to the gospel of grace, and through that relationship, to the ministry of Pastor Joseph Prince, whose teaching of the unconditional love and finished work of Jesus Christ began to reshape everything Angelo thought he knew about God. Shortly after, he discovered WOW Life Church, at that time, the only congregation in Sri Lanka that was faithfully and unapologetically teaching the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. There, Angelo found his spiritual home.

But love led him somewhere else for a season. His wife, Keziah, was attending another congregation, and out of love for her, Angelo followed. What unfolded over the next two years was a harrowing experience. The community operated as a controlling, manipulative environment, one that preached a prosperity gospel far removed from the Christ of the Scriptures. It drained him of his finances, his time, and his energy. When Angelo brought sincere theological questions, questions about Jesus, about doctrine, about the nature of the Church, there were no answers. Only silence, deflection, and pressure. When he finally made the courageous decision to leave, the response was not a blessing for the road. They spoke curses over him.

He walked out anyway. And he walked straight back into grace.

WOW Life Church welcomed him back without condition. They ministered to him, loved him, and recognised in him the call of God on his life. In time, they ordained Angelo as a minister of the gospel, and commissioned him to go: to reach those who, like him, had been deceived, wounded, and left spiritually dry by counterfeit gospels. To preach the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. That commission became Grace Culture Church.

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And yet, as it is for many who grow up close to the things of God, there came a season when she wandered, when life pulled her away from the simplicity of what she had known. But the Lord who had watched over her from childhood did not stop watching. She encountered Christ in a personal and transforming way, and came back, not to a religion, but to a Saviour.

What makes Keziah’s story remarkable is the sheer mercy of God through the most difficult chapter of it. For ten years, she was part of the same controlling and spiritually abusive environment that would later ensnare her husband. A decade is a long time to be inside something that takes far more than it gives. Yet through all of it, through the manipulation, the false doctrine, the financial and emotional toll, the Lord was with her. He was patient. He was merciful. He never let go.

When she came out, she came out standing. The cult had taken aim at their marriage, their finances, and their peace, but God, in His grace, had other plans. What the enemy meant to destroy became the very testimony that now fuels their ministry.

Today, Angelo and Keziah stand together, not just as husband and wife, but as co-founders and co-labourers. Keziah serves as a leader of genuine strength and grace within their shared work, bringing to it the hard-won wisdom of a woman who has walked through fire and come out refined. She leads with discernment, care, and an authority that comes not from position but from lived experience with God.

Their story is not a polished one. It is a real one, marked by seminary walls and desert seasons, by curses spoken at a doorway and grace spoken at an altar, by ten years in the wilderness and a lifetime of purpose on the other side. They preach what they have lived: that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is greater than every wound, every lie, and every lost year. And they are just getting started.

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A word of honour and gratitude

“Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17

Grace Culture Church did not emerge from a vacuum. It was born out of a community, one that loved us when we were broken, welcomed us when we returned, and believed in the call of God on our lives before we fully believed in it ourselves. We would be remiss, and frankly dishonest, if we told our story without honouring them by name.

To WOW Life Church – thank you. You were the first place in Sri Lanka that taught grace without apology, without condition, and without a hidden cost. You were not just a church we attended. You were the ground in which something in us began to grow again after a long and difficult winter. We carry your fingerprints in our DNA as a church, and we are deeply grateful.

To Bishop Kirby de Lanerolle – you modelled what it looks like to build a ministry on the uncompromising truth of grace. Your boldness to preach Christ and Him alone, in season and out, gave us language and courage for our own calling. We honour you as a father in the faith.

To Pastor Fiona de Lanerolle – your grace, warmth, and pastoral heart made WOW Life a place that felt safe to return to. You exemplify the kind of leadership that does not dominate but nurtures, and we are better for having been under your care.

We owe a particular and personal debt of gratitude to Ryan Raymond and Tamara Raymond, our board members, our home coach leaders, and two people who have been far more than ministry colleagues to us. You sat with us in the hard seasons. You led us in the Word around a table when we needed it most. You believed in Grace Culture Church when it was still just a conviction in Angelo’s heart. Your investment in our lives, spiritually, personally, and practically, is woven into everything this church is and everything it is becoming. We honour you, and we are profoundly grateful to walk this road with you.

To every co-founder, elder, and faithful servant at WOW Life Church who played a part in our story, named and unnamed, thank you. The grace you showed us is the grace we now pass on. That is, after all, how the gospel has always travelled: from one open hand to another.