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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 <strong>Indian</strong> 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 194
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN 18, he became a Christian and a follower of Jesus Christ. In the initial stages, he had worked with other evangelists. Pastor Paul served as the founder chief pastor of this church. Pastor Paul This organization stands out among the Pentecostal churches because of its exclusivist teachings and organization structure based on Faith Home communes replicating the early Church of the Apostolic Period. Its distinct teachings include: • Fulltime workers were expected to practice an ascetic life-style including celibacy • obedience to the elder pastors • communal living (including disposal of private possessions) in faith homes. Sharon Fellowship HQ Thiruvalla, Pathanamthitta Dt., Kerala Sharon Fellowship Church was founded in 1953 by Dr.P.J.Thomas. Following university education in India, he went abroad for higher studies and became Professor in Wheaton College, Illinois. He returned to India and founded Sharon Bible College in 1953 to equip young people for missionary work. The Churches started by the graduates of the college came to be known as ‘Sharon Fellowship Churches’. 195
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