New Life Fellowship Association, commonly known as New Life Fellowship (NLF), is a group of megachurches primarily located in India, that is characterised by adherence to the Holiness movement, Evangelicalism, and Biblical fundamentalism. New Life Fellowship Association Mumbai (Bombay) is a megachurch with 70,000 members.
History New Life Fellowship was founded in 1964 in Pune by missionaries Graham and Pamela Truscott from the New Life Churches of New Zealand.NLFA, OUR HISTORY, Official website, India, retrieved September 3, 2016 In 1966, the church was established in Mumbai. Dr. S. Joseph joined the Church in Mumbai and was soon ordained Pastor and became the founding chairman of New Life Fellowship.Allan Anderson, Edmond Tang, Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia, Second Edition, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2011, pages 189-190 In India, it has more than 100,000 adherents.A new vision, a new heart, a renewed call: Volume 1 - Page 384Stanley M Burgess, Eduard M van der Maas (eds) The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002) s.v. "neocharismatics"The Emotionally Healthy Church - Page 227 In 2025, the Church had 70,000 people. Warren Bird, World Megachurches, exponential.org, accessed February 5, 2025
Beliefs The denomination has a charismatic confession of faith. New Life Fellowship Association, FAITH STATEMENT, nlfa.org, Inde, retrieved February 18, 2020 Allan Anderson, An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2013, p. 141
Bibliography
Brett Knowles: New Life: The New Life Churches of New Zealand: 1942-1979: Dunedin: Third Millennium: 1999:
See also List of the largest evangelical megachurches Born Again Movement Christianity in India
References
External links New Life Fellowship official site