Our History
Ebenezer India Pentecostal Church, Lakeland was established and dedicated to the Almighty God by the late Pastor M. T. Samuel on Sunday, July 21, 1991. The Church was incorporated with the State of Florida on January 1992. Pastor John Samuel was the first senior pastor of the church. Pastors John Thomas, P. A. Kurian, Jacob George, Joy Abraham, James George and George Thomas ministered in this church as senior pastors till 2017. Pastor M. V. Kuruvilla has served the church in various capacities throughout the church’s history. Pastor Vanoj Mathew served as an interim senior pastor of the church from 2017-2018. From 2018 onward, Pastor Thomas Koshy has been our senior Pastor. Pastor Joshua Muthalali has been serving as the youth pastor since 2016.
For a while Sunday services were conducted in rented facilities. God then enabled us to buy a property with a house and worship there for a few years. In 2000, a church building was built and worship was held there for more than 15 years. By the grace of God and divine provision, we bought five acres of land and built over a twenty-two thousand sq. feet building with a beautiful sanctuary, fellowship hall, Sunday School and office rooms. On February 27, 2016, God enabled us to move to the new facility.
Throughout the years God enabled us to take root and to branch out in the most glorious name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our vision is to make the Church a spiritual epicenter with a global perspective.