Back Story

• AD 52 – History records the arrival of Apostle Thomas on the south west shores in Malabar of the Indian Sub-Continent.
• 1833 – Anthony Norris Graves, a dentist missionary, one of the Plymouth Brethren pioneers from Ireland
• 1872 – arrival of a Basel-Mission (German Evangelical Missionary Society) evangelist with a strong Calvinist and Lutheran background
• 1894 – evangelists from State of Tamil Nadu in India, Sri Lanka, and England
• 1898 – inception based on the believer’s baptism of four from other nominal Christian backgrounds despite persecution
• 1899 – Volbrecht Nagel, German Missionary, arrives in Kerala
• 1915 – K. V. Simon excommunicated from the Mar Thoma Church
• 1916 – Silas Fox, Canadian Missionary, arrives in State of Andra Pradesh in India
• 1921 – Mob attacks on believers following the Brethren doctrines
• 1929 – Kerala Brethren joins the Indian Brethren movement