Wednesday, 30 December 2009: The founder of Indian Evangelical Mission (IEM), Rev. Dr. Theodore Williams, passed away in Bangalore on Tuesday.

The funeral service will be held at 10.30 am on Dec. 31 at Richmond Town Methodist Church (RTMC), said a note from the general secretary of IEM, Rev P John Wesley.

The cortege will be brought to RTMC at 5pm today for people to pay their respects.

Rev. Williams was the founder General Secretary of IEM that was born in January 1965 after the National Convention of the Evangelical Fellowship of India.

During that Convention at Devlali in Maharashtra, the Executive Committee of EFI decided to revive the missionary enterprise and thus the IEM came into inception.

With one missionary, a few hundred rupees and a bicycle, the indigenous and inter-denominational missionary organization grew by leaps and bounds.

IEM is headquartered in Bangalore and currently has mission fields spread across about 37 places in India and in six other countries – UK, Sudan, West Asia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and Philippines.

It has 580 missionaries working among nearly 50 different people groups across the country.

- By: Babu Thomas | Christian Today India

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