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Church Verification Report

Reference FN-VET-0472-20260929  ·  Review date 2026-09-29
This document records the verification of
YGC PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD
Malakapalli, East Godavari, AP, India · listed since 2026-09-27
Verified

What we checked

  • Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
  • The name reads as a real congregation
  • Contact email reviewed (yahoo.com, common for small churches)
  • No website or social page was provided
  • Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right

What we found

We searched for "YGC Pentecostal Church of God" together with Malakapalli, with India, and alongside the contact name in the email address, and none of the three searches returned anything about this specific congregation. The results only brought up unrelated and much larger Pentecostal bodies in India, such as the Indian Pentecostal Church of God, headquartered in Kumbanad, Kerala, the Fellowship of the Pentecostal Churches of God in India at Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh, and the US-based Pentecostal Church of God in Bedford, Texas, none of which lists this village church. We found no directory entry, no Facebook page, no map listing, no news mention and no denominational register naming it. We also found no scam reports, fraud warnings or complaints attached to the name or the email address, so there is no negative signal either way. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.

Search conclusion: no evidence found. An independent web search is part of every review; an online page alone does not prove a congregation exists.
On our request, the church itself supplied additional evidence for this review; it was weighed in the verdict. See the appendix on page 2.
7/10SCORE
7–10 Verified
4–6 Provisionally listed, information requested
1–3 Not verified

Our conclusion: The congregation responded to our request with a photograph of its building and people, a Facebook page under the name YGC Pentecostal Church, and a clear account of its history, saying it was founded in 1958 by the late Pastor Joseph Muller and now works alongside more than fifty-five associated churches in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. An independent web search found no directory listing or news mention for this village church, but it also foun

No further action is needed. This report is refreshed whenever the church is reviewed again.

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Appendix: Evidence provided by the church

Belongs to report FN-VET-0472-20260929  ·  YGC PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD

On our request, the church itself supplied the material below on 2026-09-29. It was weighed in the verdict on page 1. The church agreed to publication.

Photo supplied by the church
Pages and linksFacebook/YGC Pentecostal church
Denomination or networkPentecostal
Vouched for byspurgeonbabu@yahoo.com
About the congregation, in their own wordsThis Church was founded by late Pastor Joseph Muller in 1958 after that it changed the name as YGC PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD. And spread out the Gospel to in-reached people and established Churches in New places where they needed. More than 55 associated Churches in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states, South India.
Material on this page was supplied by the church itself and is published with its consent. Faith.network reviewed it as part of the verification on page 1; supplying material does not by itself constitute verification. Errors are possible and no rights can be derived from this document. © Faith.network