Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name reads as a real congregation
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.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 "Good News Evangelical Mission Fellowship" together with Lucknow and Uttar Pradesh, and for the contact email address, and found no page, listing or mention of a congregation of that name in Lucknow or anywhere in Uttar Pradesh. The closest matches carry different names and belong to other places: a Pentecostal body called Good News Evangelical Mission registered in Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka, led by Rev. Ernest Thathapudi (Net Ministries worldwide church directory, which lists its Telugu Colony, Marikuppam address and phone number), a UK grant-making charity of a similar name based in Somerset (Charity Commission register and Companies House), and separate Facebook and Instagram pages for groups in Ghana and Nigeria. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: The name, the contact email and the chosen verse all fit an ordinary evangelical congregation, and nothing in the signup suggests a business, a personal brand or a group outside historic Christian belief. However, our own web search found no page, listing, address or mention of a Good News Evangelical Mission Fellowship in Lucknow or anywhere in Uttar Pradesh, and the similarly named bodies we did find are in Karnataka, the United Kingdom and Wes
We have asked this church for one piece of extra evidence: a photo, a link, its denomination, or a church that can vouch for it. The moment we can verify, this report is upgraded. Without a response, the listing is paused after 14 days.