There is a general misconception that theology is only for religious specialists who spend years in college and seminary and church pastorates. Not true. In truth, we are all theologians. Theology is the study of God, and whether our beliefs are well-formed or half-baked, all of us have ideas about God and the world in which we live. Our decisions and our attitudes are influenced by those beliefs.
Rev. Dr. T. Valson Abraham is the founding pastor of India Christian Assembly, Los Angeles. He is the founder and president of India Gospel Outreach (IGO), an organization dedicated to planting dynamic churches in each of India’s 3,000 castes and tribes and among the Indian diaspora in other nations. Part of this vision includes planting churches in each of India’s 28,000+ zip codes.
Born and raised in India, Valson is grandson of, Pastor K. E. Abraham, the founder of India’s largest indigenous denomination, India Pentecostal Church (IPC). He studied at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. He also studied at West Texas State (now A & M University) and Fuller Theological Seminary. Valson has an active preaching and teaching ministry in his native India, the United States, and other countries.
Valson is the President of India Bible College & Seminary where hundreds of students are trained each year for full time ministry of church planting. Students from India Bible College & Seminary and several other IGO-sponsored training centers are dedicated to becoming effective church planters in every state of India.
Since 1990, he provided leadership to hundreds of churches in Punjab and the Northwest Region. In 1992, he founded Punjab Bible College which has produced more that 1300 graduates working in northwest India, Nepal, Bhutan and Canada. From 2006-2013, he served as the General Secretary to his denomination in India. From 2009-2015, he served as Vice President of the Bible Society of India, Kerala State.
For the past 50 years, his ministry of preaching, teaching, mentoring, writing, broadcasting and servant leadership has blessed thousands in India, USA and around the world. His book The Cinderella Challenge reminds us of the beauty and urgency of the Great Commission.
Valson and his wife Laly have four grown children.