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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN General Convention of the Church is held during the first week of December at Thiruvalla. This is the main convention and get-together of the leaders, pastors and members of the church. Regional convention at Manakala, Adoor is the second largest convention of the Sharon Fellowship. It is held in the first week of January. Pastors and delegates from North India participate in this convention. The North Indian Churches meet during the Pooja Holidays normally at Delhi. The pastors and members of the Sharon Fellowship in North America assemble in the first week of July. Christian Evangelical Movement (C.E.M) is the youth wing of the Sharon Fellowship Church. Assemblies of God The General Council of Assemblies of God was founded in USA in 1914. Mrs.Mary Chapman, the first missionary reached India in 1915. She stayed at Chennai and in 1921 shifted her residence to Thiruvananthapuram. Pentecost Kahalam official publication of the Assemblies of God was started in 1925. Bethel Bible School at Mavelikara was founded in 1927. When Mrs. Chapman died in 1927, the administration of the Assemblies came to the hands of Indians. The entire Assemblies in India is now divided into three General Council they are: North, South and East India. These General Councils together form the Assemblies of God of India (AGI) was formed in 1995. Assemblies of God head quarters is in Schenkottai, Tamil Nadu Church of God (Full Gospel) in India One of the founders of the Church, J.G.Ingram came to India 1936. Here he met Robert F.Cook of Malankara Full Gospel Church. Cook joined the new group with 66 local Churches, 43 pastors and 2537 believers. The Church of God has spread throughout India. Mount Zion, Mulakuzha, Alappuzha was the headquarters in the beginning. In 1972, the Church was divided into seven autonomous regions. Each 196
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN region is under a state overseer. General convention of the Church is held at Convention Stadium, Thiruvalla, Kerala. The convention was started in 1923 by Rev.Robert. Church of God in India (Merged with Church of God (Full Gospel) in India) Church of God in India, Kumbanad was founded by Robert F.Cook, an Americal Full Gospel missionary in 1914. He baptised 63 people at Thuvayoor, Adoor, Kerala and established the Church. Later it spread to other parts of the country. In 1936 it was affiliated to Church of God (Full Gospel) in India. In 1994 there was an informal split in the Church. Church of God in India, Kumbanad remained separate. There is a legal dispute regarding this at Mavelikkara court. The annual convention is held at Bethel ground, Kumbanad. The first convention was held in 1923. New India Church of God New India Church of God is an indigenous New Testament church established in 1976. Pastor Thampi is the founder president. The Church has units in Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Andhrapradesh, Orissa, Bengal and Nepal. National Convention of the New India Church of God is held at Chingavanam, Kottayam Dt., Kerala. During the second week of January. Northern regional convention is held in the third week of November at Regional headquarters, New Delhi Church of God in South India Association The Church of God was founded by Rev.D.S.Warner in Anderson at Indiana, U.S.A.and brought to India by Rev.A.D.Khan in 1910. In India it is divided into two, Church of God in South and in North. Local churches of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka comprises the Church of God in South India. Rev.Dr.George Tharakan is the President of the Church of God in South India. In 1963, while practicing medicine, he met Rev.Gorden Shick, a missionary representing Church of God movement in south India. This meeting paved the way for Dr.Tharakan to take up the leadership of the movement. He was ordained in 1976, and was elected secretary of the coordinating council of the Church World Missionary Evangelism of India (WME) Dr.John Doughlas Sr. founded the International Pentecostal organisation, World Missionary Evangelism (WME) in 1940. The Indian unit of WME was registered in 1969 at Hyderabad. The India Independent Church of God founded by late Rev.C.S.Mathew at Pathanamthitta on July 12, 1947 and it got united with WME in 1975. New India Bible Church New India Bible Church was founded in 1973 by Rev.Thomas Philip, Pastor Abraham Mathew and Rev. George Philip at Paippad, Kumbanad, Thiruvalla, Kerala. Rev.Thomas Philip was born at Paippad on Nov.8, 1938. A teacher by professions, he started a Sunday School at Paippad in 1969. This centre was later developed into a Bible College. The students from this college started a church at Kombady near Thiruvalla in 1973. This is the beginning of New India Bible Church. He is the President of the Church and Vice-Principal of the Bible College. He is the General secretary of Kerala Pentecost Fellowship from 1989. 197
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