K. P. Yohannan
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| Born | 1950 Kerala, India |
| Nationality | India |
| Alma mater | Criswell College |
| Occupation | Founder and President of Gospel for Asia and the Metropolitan Believers Church |
| Organization | Gospel for Asia |
| Known for | Asian Evangelism and an advocate for National Missionaries |
| Notable work | "Revolution in World Missions" |
| Spouse(s) | Gisela |
| Children | Daniel Sarah |
| Website | www |
K.P. Yohannan is the founder and president of Gospel for Asia, a large Christian protestant missionary NGO with a focus on India and Asia. He is a pioneer and leading advocate for “national missionaries”, the formation of missionaries native to the nation the missionary is serving. He is the founder and Metropolitan Bishop of Believers Church, a large protestant Christian church denomination in India. Yohannan is also an author of over 200 books on protestant Christian living and missions, as well as a noted speaker and columnist.
Yohannan was born in 1950 and raised in a St. Thomas Syrian Christian family in Kerala, India. At age 8 he became a follower of Jesus. He was 16 when he joined Operation Mobilization, an evangelical missions movement, and served with them for eight years on the Indian subcontinent.
Through an invitation from Dr. W. A. Criswell, Yohannan moved to the United States in 1974 for theological studies at Criswell College (at the time Criswell Bible Institute) in Dallas, Texas. He graduated with a B.A. in Biblical Studies, becoming the school’s first international student to graduate. He eventually was also conferred an honorary degree of divinity by Hindustan Bible Institute & College in Chennai, India.
Six months into his undergraduate degree, Yohannan became an ordained clergyman and served as a pastor of a Native American Southern Baptist church for four years near Dallas, Texas. In 1978, Yohanna and his wife Gisela started an organization known today as Gospel for Asia, which is resided in Carrollton, Texas until 2014 in which it moved to Wills Point, Texas.. In the first year, they helped provide financial support and training to 24 missionaries.. In 1979, he resigned from his church to devote his attention full-time to mission work. In 1981, he started a chapter of Gospel for Asia in Kerala and in 1983 created an Indian headquarter in Tiruvalla. GFA directly supports more than 50 Bible colleges in various countries.
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