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The NIEA Story
NIEA has established Christian ministries in ten states of India since 1975. The New India Bible Seminary has over 2500 alumni. Over 550 staff members of NIEA are regularly reaching out to the unreached and least evangelized people. The New India Bible Church fellowship continues to expand with over 200 churches currently established from church planting by seminary alumni. Village mission schools are increasing in numbers in several states. Over 3000 children are now enrolled in 12 NIEA mission schools in North India. Twenty Christian homes for orphaned and indigent children are in operation in four states. We invite you to explore our web site and discover what God is accomplishing in India through the faithfulness of the NIEA team and prayers of the saints the world over.
Dr. Alexander A. Philip was commissioned as Director of NIEA in 1998 and, with his wife Laly, directs the ministry from its base in Purnia, Bihar. NIEA has at present over 550 on staff in various states of India.
Board of Directors
Financial Accountability: NIEA India receives yearly audits through K.R. Velayudhan Pillai & Co., Chartered Accountants, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
NIEA-USA is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose receipts are tax deductible in the USA. NIEA-USA contracts with Dimit Accounting, PLLC, Williamstown, WV.
NIEA financial documents are available on www.Guidestar.org.
History of NIEA
The late Dr. Abraham Philip was the founder of New India Evangelistic Association. It was his desire to train men and women for the evangelization of India that led to the founding of the New India Bible College in 1975. As graduates went to neighboring villages and started planting churches, the first of New India's 200 churches was dedicated in 1977.
Additional Bible training programs have since been developed in eight states of India. Over seven thousand men and women have received training through the various theological schools over the past thirty-three years.
The first Christian home for orphaned and neglected children was opened in 1981 with the Boys' Haven in Paippad, Kerala. At present, there are over 700 children being cared for in nineteen NIEA Christian homes in various states. The development of new village mission schools for children who are out of reach of public education has resulted in over 3000 kids being educated at present in 12 NIEA mission schools in N. India.
Statement of Faith
1. The Bible is unique and divinely inspired in all its content. The teachings of the Bible are inerrant and authoritative, and its records are correct and serve as the infallible rule of faith and practice. (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:20-21, Jude 3)
2. One God eternally exists as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Deut. 6:4, Matt. 28:19, 2 Cor. 13:14, Luke 3:21-22)
3. The perfect sinless humanity and the absolute, full deity of the Lord Jesus Christ is indissolubly united in one divine-human person since His unique incarnation by miraculous conception and virgin birth. (Luke 1:30-35, John 1:1, 14, 18, 3:16, Phil. 2:5-11)
4. Salvation comes by God's grace alone and is received through faith alone in the atoning work of God's Son at Calvary. (Rom. 3:24-28, Eph. 2:8, 9, Acts 13:38-39)
5. Every believer must receive water baptism by immersion as an outward sign of an inner faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matt. 28:19, Acts 2:38, 8:36-39)
6. Sanctification and separation from worldliness ought to be the pattern and standard of the Christian life. Any life-style contrary to Scripture is thereby condemned. (Rom. 6 & 7, 1 Thess. 5:23, 1 John 2:15-17, Ex. 2:14, Matt. 5:27, 15:19, Rom. 1:22-45)
7. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and a life of Christian service. (Acts 1:8, Luke 24:49, Acts 2:1-4)
8. God has given to the Church the nine manifestation gifts of the Spirit (1 Cor. 12, the five-fold ministry gifts (Eph. 4) and the seven motivational gifts. (Rom. 12.)
9. Divine healing is provided for the believer through Christ the Healer. (1 Peter 2:24, Ps. 107:20, Is. 53:5)
10. Mankind is in a lost state. Though created in the likeness of God, mankind incurred both physical and spiritual death through rebellion and thereby became sinful and sinners individually. (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:6-19, Rom. 3:10-23, 6:23, 7:18, 11:32)
11. The task of world evangelism is the mission of the Church today. (Matt. 28:19-20, Rom. 10:9-17, Eph. 4:7-16)
12. At the Second Coming of Christ, He will come personally and bodily to receive His saints and set up His millennial Kingdom. (Acts 1:11, 1 Thes. 4:13-18, 1 Cor. 15:51-58, 2 Pet. 3:1-13, Rev. 19:11-16, 20:1-6)
13. There is an evil and malignant being who is personal and spiritual, active in deceiving the world and destined for eternal judgment. He is known as Lucifer, the great dragon, satan, and the devil. (Rev. 20:1-10, 12:9, 2 Thess. 2:8-10)
14. There will be a future judgment for the righteous and the wicked. Both the believer and the unbeliever will be resurrected bodily in their own order; the saved unto everlasting bliss; the lost unto everlasting conscious punishment. (1 Cor. 15:1-50, 1 Thess. 4:13-18, Rev. 20:11, 21:1-22:5)
Most new believers come to Christ from a Hindu or Muslim background. The church pastors, evangelists and missionaries teach the new believers the basic beliefs of the Christian faith. Without that teaching, their faith would be shallow. They would not learn to rely on Christ for their needs, nor would they understand that they are a new creation in Christ. Many new believers are faced with immediate opposition from families and acquaintances.
