Although Solomon Raj began his career as a Teacher, he soon became a Pastor of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church Society serving as a Chaplain of the AELC-Andhra Christian College, Guntur serving during 1956-1959 [REF].
In 1960, on the invitation of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), he took up the Directorship of the Department for Audio-Visual education and served in Nagpur, the headquarters of the NCCI from 1960-1968 [REF].