Noaram had some good fortune, gaining the favour of a well-to-do farmer, who gave him his daughter in marriage along with some land and money to cultivate it. Naoram was secure for the first time in his life.
Then tragedy struck. Both Noaram and his wife contracted leprosy. They were told to leave their village, and went to the only place that treated lepers, the colony at Chandraghona.
Here for the first time Noaram heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. After a period of resistance he responded to it, and over the time spent at the colony became well grounded in the faith. Noaram was baptised at Chandraghona, to his very great joy.
Soon afterwards he was able to leave the colony, free of symptoms. However, it was a little while longer before his wife was pronounced clean. They returned to their village, and Noaram resumed his teaching. But he did more than this. He was now a Christian, conscious of what he owed to the Lord Jesus.
He began to tell others of Christ, speaking to them in telling ways that they could understand. His earnestness bore fruit and little by little people in nearby villages began to hear his teaching regularly. In 1953 Noaram was appointed full-time evangelist through the Baptist mission at Rangamati. Soon there were about 100 baptised believers in the area, centering in Noaram’s village.