Our Pastor
REV. DR. T. VALSON ABRAHAM
Rev. Dr. T. Valson Abraham is the founding pastor of India Christian Assembly, Los Angeles. He is the founder and president of India Gospel Outreach (IGO), an organization dedicated to planting dynamic churches in each of India's 3,000 castes and tribes and among the Indian diaspora in other nations. Part of this vision includes planting churches in each of India's 28,000+ zip codes.
Born and raised in India, Valson is grandson of, Pastor K. E. Abraham, the founder of India's largest indigenous denomination, India Pentecostal Church (IPC). He studied at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. He also studied at West Texas State (now A & M University) and Fuller Theological Seminary. Valson has an active preaching and teaching ministry in his native India, the United States, and other countries.
Valson is the director of India Bible College & Seminary where hundreds of students are trained each year for full time ministry of church planting. Students from India Bible College & Seminary and several other IGO-sponsored training centers are dedicated to becoming effective church planters in every state of India.
From September 2006 to 2013, he served as General Secretary of IPC. Since 2009 he has served as Vice President of Bible Society of India, Kerala Auxiliary.
Valson and his wife Laly have four adult children.
