PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD The Indian Pentecostal Church of God – IPC is the largest indigenous Pentecostal movement in India, with its headquarters at Hebron, Kumbanad, Kerala, India. The movement was established in 1924 and registered on December 9, 1935 at Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, under the Government of India. K. C. John now serves as the IPC general president, Baby Varghese serves as IPC general vice-president and T. Valson Abraham as the IPC general secretary. The organization has about 7,500 churches located in over 25 regions and states around the world. However, the state of Kerala, India has the greatest number of IPC churches: nearly 4,500 local congregations. In the late 1920s, K. E. Abraham, P. M. Samuel, K. C. Cherian, T. G. Oommen and others united the various independent Pentecostal churches into a Pentecostal denomination. K. E. Abraham (1899–1974) became a Pentecostal in 1923, but disagreed with other missionaries mostly from Assemblies of God and founded the Indian Pen