Pastor George Koshy
Founder of Indian Christian mission, Pastor George Koshy, was born in 1949 into an Orthodox Christian family as the second child of an atheist father. He also found atheism a convenient ideal to follow as he was coming out of High School. But God started to intervene in his life and healed young George of a major heart disease in 1967. Doctors in India gave the young man 3 years to live if he did not have heart surgery. A miraculous occurence took place in Houston Methodist Hospital where Dr. Michael DeBakey, the famed heart surgeon, pronounced that George did not need the surgery that he came for. Now back in India he showed interest in the things of God while pursuing his college education for a while but he broke again with Christian programs in 1971.
However, the grace of God continued to follow him and in February 1981 he was gloriously born again because of the work of God through a close friend. By that time he was a married man with one son. The power of God descended on him in a flooding of the Holy Spirit that he had no other choice but to pursue God's demands on his life. By 1984 Bro. George was leading a bible fellowship at his apartment at Bombay along with his secular job as a College-Lecturer. In 1987 he resigned his secular job to pursue God's call upon his life, full time. In 1989 he published his first book, "Mystery of Apostasy" while he was still in India. It is a study of the history of the degenerating Christian Church. The second edition of this book, God willing, will be out by the beginning of 2012 along with two more books; one on the Second Coming of the Lord and the other on fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
In November 1989 Bro. George migrated to USA with his family in pursuit of theological studies. He finished his Master of Divinity from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisiana in 1994. He started a mission for Indians in Louisiana, called Asian Indian Christian Mission in 1991 while doing his theological studies. In 1996 he took up the challenge of supporting two pastors to do gospel ministry in India and this led to the birth of Indian Christian Mission in 1997. In November 2005 he took charge of The Indian Christian Church, Pontiac as its pastor. He has traveled to many churches inside and out of USA, seeking support for ICM and God has been good and always faithful in providing timely aid to keep ICM alive. But there is so much more that needs to be done.
Having been in USA for 19 years Pastor George Koshy is once again being led back to India by the Lord and his primary interest is spreading the good news of his savior, Jesus Christ to his people. By November 2008 he moved back to India and is directing the work of ICM from its Head Quarters in Kerala, India.