Hindustani Covenant Church

Hindustani Covenant Church ; (HCC)
founding	1963
founder	Swedish Mission Church
Seat	Pune , India
main emphasis	Federation of Evangelical Free Churches
Action space	India
Members	111 congregations, approx. 23,000 members (as of 2012)
Website	www.hccindia.org

The Hindustani Covenant Church (HCC) is an evangelical , congregational organized church in India . It emerged from the missionary work of the Swedish Mission Church , which has been ongoing since 1939 , and was officially founded in 1963. The HCC has 111 parishes and almost 23,000 members.

history

In 1939 the Swedish Mission Church decided to start missionary work in India. In 1940 the first missionaries came to Bombay and Poona in Maharashtra State . In 1948 the work expanded to Solapur , where a health program was launched for the remote villages. In 1963 the Hindustani Covenant Church was founded. The first "moderator" was Pastor B. Thomas. The work of the church continued to expand. In addition to various social projects, church planting work was carried out in Karnataka (1968), Orissa and Uttar Pradesh (2000), on the Andamans (2001), in Gujarat (2002), Goa (2003), Jammu and Kashmir (2004), Andhra Pradesh , Uttarakhand , Himachal Pradesh and Haryana (2005) and Bihar (2007).

Social work

With a number of diaconal branches of work, the Hindustani Covenant Church tries to meet the social need it encounters in its work.

It all started with the health program in Solapur in 1948. In 1967 the Solapur Well Service was founded , an organization whose goal is the construction of wells and the manufacture of hand pumps. In 1981 St. Luke's Medical Society was formed to coordinate the Church's growing health work. The company has a hospital in Nannaj , Maharashtra state, and one in Aurad , Karnataka state.

In 2002/2003, the development aid organization Covenant Social Service (CSS) was developed, which uses a holistic approach to provide evangelism , literacy , medical care and social work, especially in slums and villages.

Partnerships

The Hindustani Covenant Church belongs to the following national and international organizations:

National Council of Churches in India (NCCI)
Christian Conference of Asia (CCA)
International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches (IFFEC).

literature

Harald Fält: Mission i religionernas land. Svenska Missionskyrkan, Stockholm 2004, ISBN 978-9-19748-322-3
Lydia Svärd: Förbundskyrkan i India. Gummessons, Stockholm 1979

Web links

http://www.hccindia.org/ Official website of the Hindustani Covenant Church
http://www.cssind.org/ Website of the Covenant Social Service

Individual evidence

^ History on the HCC website. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
↑ The article is mainly based on the history under History on the HCC website. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
^ Covenant Social Service on the HCC website. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
↑ Partnerships on the HCC website. Retrieved March 12, 2013.

[1] History on the HCC website. Retrieved March 12, 2013.

[2] The article is mainly based on the history under History on the HCC website. Retrieved March 12, 2013.

[3] Covenant Social Service on the HCC website. Retrieved March 12, 2013.

[4] Partnerships on the HCC website. Retrieved March 12, 2013.