Indian Christianity

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN
Pastor K.E. Abraham, (1899-1974) the founder of the India pentecostal Churches was from Jacobite
Church of Puthenkavu (near Chenganoor, in Kerala). At the age of 7 he was sent to a Marthomite
Sunday School. In 1914, he dedicated his life to gospel work in a meeting conducted by Moothamplackal
Kochukunju Upadesi of the Marthoma Church.
In 1915 after he passed his 7th class, he was appointed as a schoolteacher. He also began his gospel
work at the same time. Later he took adult baptism and joined pentecostan movement. He started the
Monthly fellowship meetings in 1924. The first General Convention of the Church took place at Ranni,
April 1-5, 1925. On 1 May 1930, Pastor K.E.Abraham and his family moved their residence from
Mulakuzha to Kumbanad. K.E. Abraham started Hebron Bible School in June 1930. The work of the
church began to spread in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and North India. In 194, the name of the
church was changed to “India Pentecostal Church of God”
He worked with Poet Laureate K.V. Simon for a while. Other pastors included K.C. Cherian, K.C.
Oommen, P.M. Phillip, P.T. Chacko and others. In 1930, they started the Hebron Bible College, in
Kumbanad. In 1934 a new Church was formed under the name Indian Pentecostal Church of God
(I.P.C)
The Pentecostal Mission or The Ceylon Pentecostal Mission (TPM /CPM)
"The Ceylon Pentecostal Mission owes its origin to the ministry of Walter Clifford." The church was
founded by Pastor Paul along with Pastor Alwin R. de Alwis. The Pentecostal Mission (TPM), formerly
known as Ceylon Pentecostal Mission (CPM), is a Pentecostal denomination which originated in Ceylon,
now Sri Lanka. The international headquarters is now situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Ceylon
Pentecostal Mission was founded by Hindu convert Ramankutty, later known as Pastor Paul in 1923.
Pastor Paul was born to Hindu parents in the district of Trichur in Kerala. While in Sri Lanka, at the age of
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