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'''Podimannil Thomas Chandapilla''' (18 March 1926 – 4 December 2010) was the [[Vicar General]] of [[St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India]].<ref name=steci>{{cite web|url=http://news.steci.org/veryrevptchandapilla|title=Very Rev. P. T. Chandapilla|work=St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India|date=4 December 2010|accessdate=6 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214164604/http://news.steci.org/veryrevptchandapilla|archive-date=14 December 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He ministered to the university students in India and the Church at large through new mission initiatives, including the founding of Jubilee Memorial Bible college at [[Chennai]], India.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Podimannil Thomas Chandapilla was the only son of a Christian preacher Chiramannil Chadaplilla Thomas and his wife Sosamma Thomas. His parents were members of the [[Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church|Mar Thoma Church]], working in tribal areas with no regular income, trusting to God to supply their needs.<ref name="Holland2004">{{cite book|author=Vicki Harley Holland|title=To the Unknown God|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYrwYc2x9uEC&pg=PA153|accessdate=7 December 2010|date=August 2004|publisher=Xulon Press|isbn=978-1-59467-644-4|pages=153–159}}</ref> Despite the family's poverty, Chandapilla was educated in Mar Thoma Boarding school and Gurukulam High School, finishing his schooling in 1942.<ref name=sibyjohn>{{cite web|url=http://sibyjohndaniel.blogspot.com/2009/02/biography-of-rev-pt-chandapilla-reseach.html|title=Biography of Rev P.T. Chandapilla – research by Rev Jeet Singh|work=Sibyjohn|date=4 February 2009|accessdate=7 December 2010}}</ref><br />
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==Training==<br />
He started training as a male nurse/pharmacist at an [[American Presbyterian Mission]] Hospital about 800&nbsp;miles from home, where a [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] pastor inspired him and led him to commit his life to Jesus Christ as Saviour, the start of his personal Christian life.<ref name="Holland2004" /> He trained for four years, then after working a year in a mission hospital he went to work as a pharmaceutical nurse in [[Saudi Arabia]]. He planned to earn enough to enable him to attend [[Bible College]] in India. However, a group of Christians in an American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia funded him to attend Columbia Bible College (now called [[Columbia International University]]), South Carolina, USA in 1951.<ref name="Holland2004" /><br />
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He graduated in 1955, but renounced the chance to continue his studies because he sensed God was calling him to ministry in India. He travelled back to [[Mumbai]] in August 1955, and the following year he married Dorothy, a committed Christian, pharmacist and alumna of Calvary Bible School, [[Allahabad]].<ref name="Holland2004" /><br />
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==Ministry==<br />
Chandapilla and Dorothy started work with the new [[Union of Evangelical Students of India]] (UESI).<ref name="Holland2004" /> He spent twenty years working among students and became the first General Secretary of the Union of Evangelical Students of India (UESI)--International Fellowship of Evangelical Students/Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship in India, a post he held from 1956 to 1971,<ref name="Sanders2007">{{cite book|author=J. Oswald Sanders|title=Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence for Every Believer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZZWMo-g3A0C&pg=PA173|accessdate=7 December 2010|date=1 May 2007|publisher=Moody Publishers|isbn=978-0-8024-8227-3|pages=173–}}</ref> ministering to university students, with the aim of reaching India's intellectuals with the Christian gospel.<br />
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He became the First Vicar General of St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India (STECI) and also acted as President of the Board of Management of Jubilee Memorial Bible College (JMBC) in Chennai. He also served as General Secretary of the Foundation of Evangelical Churches of India.<ref name=CIU /> Columbia International University granted him Distinguished Alumnus status in 1988.<ref name=CIU>{{cite web|url=http://www.ciu.edu/alumni/association/alumnioftheyear.html#ChandaChandapilla|title=P.T. Chandapilla (CBC 1955) Distinguished Alumnus, October 1988|work=Columbia International University|accessdate=7 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230003627/http://www.ciu.edu/alumni/association/alumnioftheyear.html#ChandaChandapilla#ChandaChandapilla|archive-date=30 December 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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An eloquent preacher,<ref name=Ephesians>{{cite web|url=http://www.urbana.org/ephesians/mutual-submission-ephesians-5-21|title=Ephesians Devotionals|author=Bob Morris|work=Urbana.org|accessdate=7 December 2010}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> he was described in 1997 with the words, "He lives like [[Mother Teresa]] but thinks like [[John Calvin]]."<ref name=rq>{{cite journal|url=http://rq.rts.edu/spring97/novenson.html|first1=Joseph V.|last1=Noveson|year=1997|title=Draped in a Servant's Towel Rather Than a Master's Robes|journal=Reformed Quarterly|volume=16|issue=1}}</ref><br />
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==Partial bibliography==<br />
Philipose Vaidyar www.chandapilla.blogspot.in [http://chandapilla.blogspot.in Blog: A Tribute to Very Rev. P. T. Chandapilla]{{refbegin}}<br />
*{{cite book|author1=P. T. Chandapilla|author2=Union of Evangelical Students of India|title=A grain of wheat: the life of I. Joseph Abhisheka Rao|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mm4lOAAACAAJ|accessdate=6 December 2010|date=1972|publisher=Union of Evangelical Students of India}}<br />
*{{cite book|author=P. T. Chandapilla|title=My mother! my teacher!: (tributes of a son to a godly mother)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3xIHQAACAAJ|accessdate=6 December 2010|year=1972|publisher=Gospel Literature Service}}<br />
*{{cite book|author1=P. T. Chandapilla|author2=Asia Theological Association|title=Local churches and evangelism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDMQHAAACAAJ|accessdate=6 December 2010|year=1977|publisher=Asia Theological Association|isbn=0-85821-105-X}}<br />
*{{cite book|author=P. T. Chandapilla|title=Christian leaders and leadership|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9rCGwAACAAJ|accessdate=6 December 2010|year=1978|publisher=Gospel Literature Service}}<br />
*{{cite book|author=P. T. Chandapilla|title=예수님의 제자훈련|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E_9qAAAACAAJ|accessdate=6 December 2010|date=1 July 1985|publisher=Hanʼguk Kidok Haksaenghoe Chʻulpʻanbu|isbn=978-89-328-2001-9}}<br />
*{{cite book|author1=P. T. Chandapilla|author2=South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies|title=Missiological issues in New Testament times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KyDbGwAACAAJ|accessdate=6 December 2010|year=1988|publisher=SAIACS}}<br />
*{{cite book|author=P. T. Chandapilla|title=The Master-trainer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydZTcgAACAAJ|accessdate=6 December 2010|year=1998|publisher=OM Books|isbn=978-81-7362-131-4}}<br />
*{{cite book|author=P. T. Chandapilla|title=India's McNally 'Tai': a biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fICNAAAACAAJ|accessdate=6 December 2010|year=2004|publisher=OM Books|isbn=978-81-7362-515-2}}<br />
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* SERVANT by Rt Rev. P.T.Chandapilla. Pune: Select Book Publishers and Distributors, 1990.<br />
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