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Pastor David and Ketzy Prakasam

Pastor David and Ketzy Prakasam are the Senior Pastors of Bethel Indian Pentecostal Assemblies at Coimbatore, South India, which has more than 4500 members.  They are also the Directors of Bethel Fellowship Trust, which is involved with various social activities in the nation of India helping the poor and needy.  Pastor David Prakasam has been an instrument in establishing more than 500 churches in India and he continues to give leadership and direction to these churches.  Besides this he is also in charge of three Bible schools, where he trains hundreds of students for the ministry. Pastor David and Ketzy oversee a number of social projects including 20 orphanages, leprosy homes, widows care, and many educational and vocational training schools besides caring for the poor and down trodden through their 40 different social projects. Pastor David has spoken in many international conferences and has an apostolic calling on his life. Ketzia, his wife is a worship leader with a prophetic anointing and conducts many special seminars for women.

Rev. David Prakasam is the President of Indian Pentecostal Assemblies, Coimbatore which has planted over 450 churches in India and Nepal.

He is a graduate of English Literature from Madras University. He also got graduated with honors from the Assemblies of God Bible college, in England in the year 1976. After a decade he earned his Master of Divinity through ATA .

Rev. David Prakasam, in obedience to the vision God gave him started Bethel Faith Spark Bible College in the year 1980 and has been instrumental in sending more than 1500 graduates both men and women into the mission fields.  Most of them have planted churches in India and neighboring countries and many are now heads of institutions and church organizations and missionaries, bible school teachers and eminent Christian leaders.  The bible college was one of the first ones to be accredited by ATA and continues to grant ATA accredited theological degrees.  Now this bible college has 10 extension centers in Tamil Nadu.

Rev. David Prakasam is a Missiologist.  His main burden is to train leaders in the regional language and send them into their own mission fields.  Instead of sending missionaries from south, he established 3 mission centres in Chandigar, Mumbai and Nepal to teach and raise up local leaders.  As a result he has planted more than 150 churches in North India, central and North east India besides Nepal and Bhutan Borders.. 

Rev. David Prakasam is also a church planter.  With a vision to plant 1000 churches before 2010, under his dynamic leadership of Indian Pentecostal Assemblies, together along with his co-workers, have planted nearly 500 churches in 18 states of India in 15 different language groups.